Before I start my review, I want to tell anyone in America reading this to go and buy tickets to see nick cave straight away, you will not regret it. This album crept up on me with every listen. At first I thought it was good, but I didn’t love some parts of it and it didn’t pack the punch I expected it too, and I couldn’t understand why specifically conversion was so highly rated on here, but then with each listen it slowly dawned on me how good it actually is, and when I saw ... read more
This album has crazy energy, and the features are pretty much all excellent. It’s crazy how much this album feels like a mixtape in terms of production and overall style. It’s also crazy how well it all works as an album considering how many features there are, and you can genuinely tell that Denzel loves all the artists he’s working with here, and that that love and respect is resipricated through the excellent features. It truly feels like a love letter to the south and the ... read more
This album has some really really strong points. Gloria, man at the garden, heart pt. 6 and reincarnated are all absolutely incredible and really deep songs, but the bangers here are also excellent. Kendrick is really strong all across this and the west coast production style is really great, I especially love the production on wacced out murals, it’s really interesting and sort of off kilter. But the main and only big problem for me is with the features. Aside from SZA they all fall ... read more
This thing cuts deep into me emotionally like nothing else ever can. The more I hear about Kai and this project the more it hurts. I can’t listen to this without crying, it is absolutely beautiful. You don’t even need to relate to anything in the lyrics personally to feel the full effect of them. It just happened to be exactly a year since Kai took his own life that I went back to this, and all I can say is, rest in peace, and although all of us reviewing this didn’t know you, ... read more
This album is near perfect from start to finish. The drums are insanely good, especially on scentless apprentice, my favourite song here. But the rest of the album is also incredible, songs like Francis farmer or very ape that I didn’t like initially really grew on me going back to the album. And I haven’t even mentioned the vocal performances yet, they are genuinely insane. The amount of strain Kurt Cobain must have put on his voice recording and performing these songs is ... read more
This album builds excellently on ideas from the previous black midi album hellfire, and I think they were most likely planning on making an album like this, judging by the fact the magician and lumps, two unreleased black midi songs, appear here. This album is incredible though, and I can understand why geordie stepped away from the band to release it solo, as the influences of Latin music he brings here feel more personal than the mix of influences black midi had. The concept is amazing, and ... read more
This album just baffles my brain. I don’t know why but it refuses to understand it.
This album is really great, but I don’t get the insane hype it has. It’s not his best imo but then I haven’t heard it in a while so maybe I should go back to it
Edit: listening to this again I really didnt love it that much, but after many listens I started to see what people like about it, even though I don’t think it has his best production or rapping, but there are some amazing highlights, but overall it feels like lots of the songs just lack weight and memorability
It’s incredible that a song this good has so much serious competition for their best song
This is exactly what jpeg needed to release. After his beef with Freddie Gibbs, where he seemed to publicly crash out in a bad way, he needed to prove himself to be able to take insane shots and be aware of his flaws at the same time. He does this perfectly here, some songs are crushingly personal and deep while some are crazy, high energy rap-rock bangers. This fixes the problems that I have with LP, which is that it feels like it doesn’t have enough weight generally, where as this ... read more
This is the only album I wish I could give a minus score to. “Hey you know what would be really funny? If I made an EP about the album someone made when their wife died and they went through an incredibly tough time in their life, and it would be even more funny if I belittled him and said he was happy his wife died so he got lots of money from the album. Yeah, that would be hilarious, no one would get annoyed about that” I don’t even whether this is serious or ironic because ... read more
This album is not normally my kind of thing, I’m not a big fan of most kinds of pop generally but, after two listens I grew to enjoy this a lot. There are some tracks that are just good or not massively memorable, but there are also plenty of excellent highlights like von Dutch and sympathy is a knife to name just a few. There are also several really emotional or personal songs here that balance out the album and are really good as well
OH MY GOD. This is awesome. Totally different, totally works, totally excellent.
EDIT: fuck this guy, he announced a cool sounding totally fake movie to promote his album that could’ve been SO MUCH better if he’d fucking commuted to the alternative rock sound he teased on this single, but no, that would be too daring, so he just went with the same mid-ass rap sound he’s done to death already. FUCK YOU DONALD GLOVER RELEASE A ROCK ALBUM!!!!!!
This album is sharp, short and concise. The idea behind it is incredibly unique, and challenging to pull off but Lupe executes it perfectly, not creating an album in the style of another artist, in this case Amy Winehouse, but actually creating the album that she wanted to and would have made, with production in the style of who would have produced it. But this isn’t even just that, as Lupe begins as a narrator describing Amy Winehouse’s life before singing and rapping as her here. ... read more
Only heard this once so don’t really have a rating for it in my mind but this track is kind of insane. It’s weird and experimental, but like duh obviously it is. Also, is he making a rap-rock album? I feel like this album is going to be very divisive, and idk why but I just have a feeling Peggy might be more right wing on this album, although I could be completely wrong on that. So basically I have no idea what to think, I hope this album is good, I’ve liked the singles but ... read more
This album is where OutKast truly step into their groove. It’s eclectic and has so many great tracks from start to finish. The hooks are just as good as always for them and it’s introspective, it looks at life in slums and talks about mistakes people make, and especially in da art of storytelling part 1, they tell an incredible story of people stuck in these lifestyles and how it consumes them. It also has really great tracks that are more positive like Rosa parks, that is just ... read more
This new album is absolutely phenomenal from start to finish. It has highs and lows, but nothing close to a bad song, and yet more incredible writing and instrumentation from vampire weekend. They put a great twist on their sound here, making it more rough in places, with more static or noise elements creeping into the songs. It blends the piano of modern vampires, with the guitars of self titled, and the softness of contra in places to create an epic album that is a delight to listen to. And ... read more
This album contains some really good songs, in fact, they’re nearly all good, but the quality gets drowned in the quantity, and overall it feels too long. If they kept just the best 10-14 tracks, this would be a much better album for me, but it feels kind of weighted down by its length. Having said all that, it’s still a really great album, with great lyric writing and instrumentation as always, there are also some really standout songs for me like flower moon, this life and of ... read more
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