This album is just wonderfully pleasant. Joanna takes us on a 2 hour journey into an emotional landscape where she's more self-instropective, wiser and calmer than ever before.
This veers the most away from being conventionally Fiona Apple-esque at the expense of a wholly enjoyable experience such as her first 4 albums.
I didn't really like Robbery and The End, all the others are good-to-great tracks, but so far nothing is really standing out, standard Rocky. I think many people are disappointed because of the wait, since they thought after so long this would be his best album, but that's just what their own expectations were.
Bowie's magnum opus, decidedly. Before his death he gave us something that shall immortalize himself forever
First part is incredible with some amazing songs like Running Up that Hill, Cloudbusting and The Big Sky. I think she was, along with David Bowie the essential trailblazers of the time in alternative rock and pop music, bringing it to the mainstream. Her lyrical, vocal and production skills are exemplary, she can make music come alive basically, all by herself.
However, the second part of the album "The Ninth Wave" is essentially a concept album. I can appreciate the effort she put ... read more
I simply love everything about this double feature. Björk's vocals fit very nicely with the erratic tracks on Niggas on the Moon, and I like DG fiddling with noise rock on Jenny Death, meshes really nicely with Ride's rapping.
I consider this to be her magnum opus in a way, I think this is the album she put the most work into, the one where she could be the most genuine and free. On some tracks she shows her confident, "IDGAF" self (eg. Woo, Needed Me) and on some her most vulnerable (eg. Higher, Close to You), making this a pretty well balanced work.
This is also the record that gave us one of her all-time best tracks, Love on the Brain, and a very great Tame Impala cover in the shape of Same Ol Mistakes.
Wtf is this 😭🙏
Tbh I found the first track, Gratitude to be pretty great and I even added it my playlist, but the others I really couldn't get into, some of them I can't even really consider music.
I understand that this is meant to be very experimental and first and foremost it's a soundtrack, it's not primarily meant to be listened to independetly, but still, it's just not an enjoyable listen at all.
This is definitely much harder to get into than her other albums, and I suppose even harder if you're not familiar with flamenco or Spanish music in general. Coming from someone who deeply enjoyed her 3 other albums, and saved this for the last, I think this record is very well done, and I think Rosalia shows her exceptional talent here. I enjoyed 7 of the songs, ie. those are the ones I will listen to again, but overall I didn't really find this as enjoyable as her other records, ... read more
I have never listened to this album but I have to balance out the good review bombing
Taylor Swift is a typical white woman in her 30s who can't accept that she isn't in high school anymore. To her, saying the word dih and talking about her partners penis is something that she expects to be taken as wild and surprising, like "OMG she swears and has sex? So cool"
To Taylor, music is not art, it's a commodity. Taylor is not an artist she is just an enteirtaner. She only follows trends in music, but never makes anything that comes from her heart.
It took me a long time to fully listen to this record. Her voice at first annoyed me, but I had to learned to love its uniqueness.
The album is beatifully crafted, Newsom really knows how to make and write music. I dare say she is one of the best songwriters in this era of music history, her lyrics are complete poems in their own right, not just companions to the music.
I appreciate the classical instruments, it transports me into a fantasy world - something as comforting as a lullaby.
If I ... read more