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Freddie Gibbs is so damn good. Like there's great stuff all over this record between the beats and the samples and the features but Freddie is just on another level. His deep voice carries so much weight with it, whether he's trying to sound dark and menacing or just chilling having a laid-back time he does so with energy and personality. His flows are so effortless and he sounds just as comfortable spitting tight speedy bars over energetic trap beats as he does giving relaxed storyteller ... read more

Bladee is an artist that I've been trying to make myself like for years. And I think this is the closest yet. My biggest issue with his music has always been that in going for a chill dreamy sound, it often falls short and ends up just being sleepy instead. That's still present on this album, there's a few songs that definitely just came and went without me taking really any notice of them. But there's also a handful of songs that really got into. I AM SLOWLY BUT SURELY LOSING HOPE and ... read more

This is an album that I was very excited to get into for a few different reasons. Her previous project, the incredible Alias EP, sparked a lot of interest and made me keen to see what heat Shygirl would drop next. But the singles we've heard since then showed a shift in sound from Alias. Songs like Cleo and Firefly showed Shygirl going in a lighter poppier direction which, if I'm being completely honest, I didn't enjoy as much. So going into this I was curious to see which direction it would go ... read more

CRAVITY has for for a while been my exception to my "I don't like boy groups" rule, but this is probably the weakest release I've heard from them. The two singles, Boogie Woogie and PARTY ROCK are overly clean bright funkpop tracks that are basically doing what BTS' recent songs like Butter and Permission To Dance did, aka be completely soulless and vapid. Fortunately that's not all this EP has to offer. New Addiction and AUTOMATIC are fun songs, with more interesting production and a ... read more