jordymusic

First generic 20 track stream fodder trap album of the year down.

Few decent bops on here but aside from those this is just one long sound. TBH, this is one of those types of albums I usually rate well in the red for being about 70 minutes long. So props and points for keeping the runtime down.

There's a lot of personality and character here and it's rare I'll score something with those qualities under 50. Sure, there's nothing boundary pushing or particularly ear-catching about what Iggy's making these days (Other than his pretty cool collab with Underworld a few years back) but the guy has every right to keep on bellowing these old school punk tunes out of those crude and crass vocal chords while they're still good for it.
I'll take Frenzy and Strung out Johnny into this new year ... read more

Acceptable in the 80's and The Girls are certified disco bangers and nobody can dispute this.

The rest sounds like those songs Jeremy and Super Hans used to make in Peep Show if they were mastered by an actual producer and sung by a Scottish bloke affecting an English accent for commercial gain.

I was genuinely born in the same shitty town as Calvin Harris so if there's ONE person he aint fooling...

A Grand Don't Come for Free really is, narratively, a musical experience like no other, and probably the most 'cinematic' album I'll ever listen to. Evidentially, Skinner has a very love it or hate it vocal style and I really do respect the way this album confuses Americans en masse. This is one of the first of those 'Propa British' albums I ever listened to and from then onward this album has had a pretty big role in my life.

Strangely, There's a few songs on here that I don't LOVE. An ... read more