To be honest, I cried listening to “The Mountain.”
It's about grief, about memory, about accepting death, about the afterlife, about transcendence.
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett recently experienced the loss of family members, which led to a trip to India, a place where Hinduism and Buddhism deal differently with themes such as death and rebirth. This created emotionally honest lyrics; Albarn hadn't sounded like this in years. Musically, the influence of Indian culture is ... read more
"Breach" is mostly two things: the end of all Dema lore, something like that. I'm not going to focus on it or discuss it, because I never really cared about it.
But I'm happy for those of you who followed it all this time.
Second, this album feels like a B-side to "Clancy," and that's a good thing because some of the songs here are even better than before.
The production is similar to most Twenty One Pilots albums. Josh does a good job and is a great drummer. ... read more
“Let God Sort Em Out” was probably one of the albums I was most looking forward to hearing this year, and the hype paid off.
First of all, there's no one in the world happier with the return of Clipse than Pharrell, he operates here in an unbelievable way, he hasn't sounded or produced like this in years, since maybe "it's almost dry".
Speaking of the Clipse, Pusha T has been very consistent since the beginning of his solo career, and here is no different, ... read more
Benson Boone has been on the radio a lot here in the last few months and, like a lot of the stuff that's been on the radio recently (driven by social media), I had already imagined the form that “American Heart” would take.
And it has exactly the shape of the radio, the lyrics are simple, the choruses long enough for your aunt who listens to the radio making food to remember, and the production that sometimes tries for something a bit more interesting doesn't quite get ... read more