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This is pretty much the platonic ideal of Taylor Swift's style of music. It's got touches of A Moon Shaped Pool, The Age of Adz, and pretty much any Bon Iver related project, yet still feels distinctly Taylor Swift, elevating this above the level of a mere forgery. The main problem is that Taylor Swift is more or less at war with herself here, and her juvenile lyrics and generic singing voice just don't match well with this kind of music. This is music meant for the wispy vocals of the ... read more
Just kinda mid. Nice beat, good bars, just not particularly interesting.
When you look at Ennio Morricone's career, you find that his repertoire isn't as monolithic as it initially seemed. His work seems to extend about as far as Leone's westerns, some fairly obscure cult movies, a handful of horror flicks, and some box office duds like The Mission. And yet, his footprint on film feels somehow as massive as Steven Spielberg or Stanley Kubrick, and this is because Morricone defined what a movie soundtrack could and should be.
Morricone didn't just write ... read more
Halfway through Illmatic, you start to notice that, 4 tracks into this 10 track album, not only has every song been good, but each song has been at least as good as the last. Faith N. and MC Search have straight-up assassinated the beat every time, which has this gooey mixture of gritty boom-bap and moody, psychedelic rhythms that evoke a sense of both nostalgia and inner-city rumination. On top of that are Nas' scatterbrained reflections on weed, mysticism, old movies, life, death, and the ... read more
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