The debut album from soundcloud rapper-come-indie softie Dominic Fike isn’t anything special or poignant but it is fun.
Anyone looking for nuance and storytelling from Fike are bound to go away disappointed but for those people who enjoy a well put together coming of age banger, they come in droves on What Could Possible Go Wrong.
The best moments here are the tracks that reach unabashedly for the sweet spot between cheesy and sincere. Fully exploiting the centres in my brain that ... read more
The critics all waiting on each other to decide whether this is ass or the second coming of christ
A meditation on everything and nothing, people die and people eat seafood. Sometimes grief doesn’t eventually give way to new understanding and put everything into fine focus, sometimes grief is being inexplicably drawn the life and death of a second cousin you forgot existed. All is permissible and right.
I happened upon this album on music meme page which couldn’t be further away from the place this album has ended up taking in my heart. Each track is almost unanimously sad and ... read more
This album was so ahead of its time. Coming back to it (as I do most weeks) i'm struck by a new inventive aspect of the albums composition. I hate to play the 'misunderstood intentions' card but this album has not been fully understood. This album can be digested at face value as well as on a deeper level. Tracks like Sweatpants and v.3005 are dopamine rushes initally and then deeper listening eventually and help endlessly with the narrative and through-line that the album holds to. v.3005 has ... read more