R.E.M. are at their best when they’re writing fun, rhythmic, and sorta vibey post-punk bangers with lyrics that feel like they were written by a paranoid conspiracy theorist who thinks that there’s cameras all over their house, and this is 5 songs of the peak of that sound.

A colorful yet mournful record. The production has so much dark, grief-infused texture in it and Cudi and Ye give some of their best performances to date.

Ye releases a record that feels like a colossal epic documenting his many-year struggle with mental health, faith, and loss. It is rough around the edges, but ultimately just contains so much of Kanye’s most powerful and utterly triumphant material. This is the soundtrack to pulling your life back together and emerging even more incredible than ever. Psyched to see where Ye goes next in his music.

Almost every track here has some excellent ideas and that’s even more clear through the infinitely better leaks, but as you listen it becomes incredibly clear that this was rushed out last minute, through unfinished tracks and some straight up pointless songs. That said, there’s still a few Ye classics here and they demonstrate a distilled, warm Ye that could have been, in another timeline.

A grab bag of some of Kanye’s most emotionally vulnerable and lost music yet, with some of the most incredibly cold and ethereal production out there. I don’t trust anyone who hates this album.

IDK if I’m insane because despite it’s collage-esque pacing, this feels like the second-most narrative album Ye has ever released. Every track functions as so many different things: absolute bangers, statements on Kanye’s pop-culture persona and his underlying personal struggles, and history markers on the development of hip hop as a whole, all coalescing into an album that feels like a chaotic deconstruction of all of popular music and the entire idea of Kanye. His greatest ... read more

An album that takes the incredible songwriting of MBDTF and filters it through a funnel of pure anger and ferocity, and then takes that idea and does whatever the fuck it wants with it. This is like, the ideal median between the popular canon of music and cutting edge sound design and experimentation.

IDK what everyone else hears, this album is just kinda flat and unimpressive to me and the production aged really poorly.

I don’t even know what I could say about this that hasn’t already been said but imagine Graduation with the emotional depth of 808s and the most dazzlingly maximalist arrangements and musical collaborations you’ll ever hear.

A cold, tortured album that has an incredible sense of grief and would change the landscape of music forever.

This record is just pure dumb fun. Aged like fine wine, I just can’t get enough of the positive vibes here.

This album doesn’t feel like it’s aged a day. All the production is absolutely regally beautiful and maximalist, and the verses on this project are just as consistently hard as Dropout. Top 3-4 Ye easily.

This album is really good but it kinda feels eclipsed by the record that came immediately after which at least in my opinion does the same sound a lot better. Still, lots of great verses.

Side A is like, some of the most unique hip hop I’ve ever heard, incorporating all these weird psychedelic dark ambient beats. Most of side B is pretty standard pop rap or cloud rap, but is still fantastic. The last two tracks, CLOUD 9,999 and BATHORY MOTIVES (the latter of which returns to the dark psychedelic sound) have 2 of the best beats I’ve ever heard in all of hip hop. Ugly Mane’s production here is so GOATed and on top of that he has 2 fantastic verses on the ... read more

Production on this is just unreal. The atmosphere is unbelievably mature, fleshed out, and rich for a debut album. Kill Bill is also a fantastic rapper, and while his lyrics sometimes feel a little forced his deadpan delivery always makes up for it. Features here also have tons of chemistry. Prob my favorite example of “jazz rap”

Massive improvement. It’s a mix of some incredibly innovative, abrasive, and fun punk-rap, and a lot of other tracks that feel like a much improved take on his Die Lit sound. An album I’m basically always in the mood for.

It’s a cool alum with solid production but I feel like it’s a little bit inconsistent. There’s a few tracks that I just can’t get into, but the highlights make up for it I think.

Combines the blissful trap Icedancer sound with the artsy and psychedelic direction of the last two albums.

I like the ethereal, ambient direction of this album but it’s very much a mood album, aside from Reality Surf which is straight up one of the best songs ever released.

Bladee’s weirdest and best album. Throughout it’s short runtime it never lets up once and has so much surreal, trippy variety. Unbelievably colorful and fun album.