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If this album was merely the first 3 songs and continued on this path - leaning so heavily into the "So" and unapologetically mid-80's funky Brit pop influences - I'd almost respect is more. But once we hit the lead single, As It Was, things run into a massive slow down. It's hard to not credit how it starts, and there's a few small highlights in the midst of it all, but it feels like potential left on the table for an artist that has usually been perfectly fine leaning into the retro ... read more
If "After Hours" was Abel embracing a new sound, this is the mastery of it. It's almost astonishing how much of an impact Dawn FM makes in just it's first eight tracks. If not for things significantly slowing in the final 1/3rd (including the near album-derailing collab with Lil Wayne) this would be sniffing perfection. It really is pop excellence in action.
Gonna be 100%, this is my favorite project from James Blake. It's a perfect merging of R&B, alternative, pop, electronic, and from the opener ("Assume Form"), through the ROSALIA feature ("Barefoot in the Park"), it might be the best 5-song-run of any album in 2019. Purely excellent, from production to hooks to themes and everything inbetween.
There's a joke here but it's just not that funny. I don't understand it - Hobo Johnson was never an artist (by design) that was going to set the world on fire but it seems he decided to meme an album. The whole thing is needlessly...needless. If you got something out of this mess, great, but it's an unmitigated disaster of an album...following up another unmitigated disaster of an album. What more do you even say?
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