This album is the sole reason I believe in the slight superiority of the 2010s when it comes to Experimental Hip Hop. Don't get me wrong, the prior decades and especially the 2000s were remarkable too, even more so than the 2010s from a solely creative standpoint given that artists were playing around in the complete darkness of an uncharted territory and still managed to create art that is creatively unparalleled even all these years later in an era where everyone and their mother is ... read more
The first time I've really been able to get into the ubiquitously praised atmosphere of Boards of Canada. Every constituent here feels way more alive than on any of their previous work and as such the songs don't meld into one flat nothing (unlike any of their previous work!). The percussion is energetic, almost synthwave-y and has a punch to it I most certainly did not expect from a BoC release. I think abandoning lofi-ness in favour of a more clean production was definitely the ... read more
This shit sound like if a 2017 summer hit tried to be RYM. Genuinely zero difference between this and what they play at H&M.
Everything he's never been good at, especially being edgy, crammed into one album. Of course it was never going to be good. I'll try not to parrot the same criticisms already repeated ad infinitum on twitter because somehow it took until now for people to realise JPEGMAFIA sucks and everyone's doing my job for me. Instead I'd like to draw a comparison to Stice because I got reminded of them a bit while listening to this. And that's not meant to be a slight against ... read more
"I'm getting tired of dudes rapping like Kool Keith and pretending it's brand new when Kool Keith was rapping like that in 96"
The kind of weirdness you can only find in 2000s Experimental Hip Hop and nowhere else. I don't know what possessed everyone back then to be doing this kind of shit, but I wish it would come back.




