KendrickL

people genuinely only hate 808s & Heartbreak because they heard too many people call it influential before they actually sat down and listened to it. like bro, influence aside, this album is just weirdly human. cold, awkward, robotic, emotional, detached, all at the same time. it’s the type of album that sounds like staring out of a car window after saying something you regret to someone you actually cared about. and tbh, i used to think people exaggerated when they described albums ... read more

i was half asleep on the train when a line from this album randomly hit me again, and i actually had to stop scrolling for a second like “wait... that’s kinda heavy.”

what makes Little Simz so dangerous as an artist is that she doesn’t really drop albums in the casual sense (export for her latest ep😔), but rather builds worlds and then dares you to sit inside them without flinching. “NO THANK YOU” feels like one of those projects where she’s not ... read more

i think some people only call UTOPIA mid because they wanted another Astroworld and got uncomfortable when Travis stopped trying to sound beautiful for two seconds.

there’s this weird pressure around Travis where every album has to feel like an era-defining experience or whatever, and honestly that kinda ruined the first listen for a lot of people. because UTOPIA isn’t this instant dopamine album. it’s messy, loud, paranoid, arrogant, ugly at times, and lowkey exhausting. but ... read more

this lp lowkey jumped me.

JPEGMAFIA did not care if this album makes sense. the first half had me locked in like “okay yeah he’s cooking,” but then it just keeps going... and going... and at some point i’m just sitting there like bro, breathe 😭

don’t get me wrong, the production is still insane. it’s glitchy, aggressive, sometimes beautiful in a broken way. there are moments where it feels like he’s building a whole new language out of distortion. ... read more