The whole album just takes a nose dive the entire time. Its like Drake runs out of things to say and his energy runs out and just relies on the most brain dead flows more and more as it goes on. The album is CARRIED HARD by the production. Way too many petty lyrics about drama and issues he has with other people.
I guess maybe he doesn't understand that the biggest flex an artist can have is not making good disses but making better music than anyone else, that's the shit that makes ... read more
Very good energy, kept up throughout. Lynn Strait is actually an insanely skilled vocalist. He does, like, Meshuggah levels of harshness in his vocals and yet he sings like a thousand words a second keeping up the energy. He is pretty dynamic too with the amount of vocal distortion and fry he does. Instrumentals are also very good, they have some stand out pockets here and there, especially the bass and gutars.
Over all, the tracks can start sounding similar on the latter half and I think some ... read more
I feel like orchestras get extra points just for sounding cool cause in reality this orchestra didn't do enough to warrant this score. The orchestral side of things is bare bones, the guitar is pretty good at times. Overall it was a nice listen but lacked in terms of song writing.
This landed pretty well with me. I think as the album goes on, the more interesting writing decisions start shining through and in turn the album ends very nicely.
Heavy and fun, but ultimately a bit too generic for it to get to the 80s for me.




