an immensely creative concept, if not a little bogged down at times by the actual musings (oddly reminiscent of Alan Watts) at the core of the experience or the repetitiveness of the motifs ("i just want to live", "this one goes out to [concept]", "blue and yellow", [general yearning over a lost love], etc. maybe this is intentional as to provide a cohesive narrative (like a single continuous train of thought?), but i just see it as done ad nauseam personally...). ... read more

it's a pretty "boring" record stylistically but the songwriting on here is *incredibly* solid. like, the run from We Are to Send It Up is an amazing set of songs that demonstrate a great consistency, level of depth, and ear for sticky hooks that make it a quintessential pop rock record in my eyes.

the only album to make me cry from its depictions and messaging. the emotional impact on this album is absurd. its long but its seriously worth it. it's uplifting without patronizing, it's hopeful without naïveté, and it's ambitious without lecturing. truly a masterpiece in songwriting.

this album makes me feel hope in a way no other album has to this point. it dissolves my worries and fears, and washes them away with its hypnotic ebb and flow. the musical equivalent of a cool, quiet, and cloudy day—somber yet strangely comfortable.

I'm too much of a theatre kid to hate this album, but I'm also too aromantic to love this album either. Better stuff is in later releases, tbh—Currents Convulsive and She Sings in the Morning goes hard though

very evocative. one of the best examples of using experimentation to actually say something rather than towards mere aesthetics. knees made me fucking bawl when I finally reached it. although its an album I don't come back to often due to the heaviness of its subject matter, when I do listen to it it is *transcendent*. incredible job

eclectic and very good, but tends to be very front-heavy. the highs are really high, and the lows are mediocre

off of first listen, this project is a genuinely and utterly beautiful gestalt. a (ironically) haunting embodiment of purgatory. the singles to this album were good, but in the context of the world Quadeca has crafted hit with so much more impact.

there's not much else I can say here. go listen to this album right now

EDIT: fuck, its so good. its definitely growing on me in terms of enjoyment as I re-listen to it. likely my AOTY

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

what I (controversially) believe to be *the* quintessential BROCKHAMPTON album. nothing from their discography comes to this level in overall vision and content. the entire run of this album is incredibly solid, with a dip in quality at SOMETHING ABOUT HIM (which tonally feels off in the album) and HONEY (which I thought was just okay, especially when preceded by J'OUVERT, undeniably an emotionally intense point). just so good, god damn

Fucking amazing album. REMAINS ahead of its time (even during/after PC Music and related subcultures). This puts recent experimental projects to shame in terms of the level of vision. Seriously, holy shit

It's just house music (derogatory), but its not even good at Being House Music. How do you fumble that????

Maroon 5 should have stopped making music after at LEAST V, because this is a fucking mess. This is what pure and utter inoffensiveness looks like: faceless. How is *this* from one of the most well known pop bands in modern music?

Abrasive, whimsical, chaotic, silly, and most of all eclectic. There is something just so charming about this album, whether its the minute-long unhinged rant about anything and anyone placed abruptly in the middle of a song, the wide range of influences (including... the Happy Hardcore of artists like S3RL?? okay then), the overall sense of humor of the artist, or simply just the production and sequencing choices throughout.

This is a lot of words to say that its the perfect album for me in ... read more

This is the project that introduced me to the ideas of HexD and for that I'm grateful, but this project holds up on its own from the genre its placed into. Almost shoegaze-y in its approach, FxG3000 has nearly-impossible to hear lyrics over the heavily bit-crushed production, which to me is just a treat aesthetically. A lot of interesting ideas on this EP.

A quite fun experience, with solid production and concept. Lyrics may be a little nonsensical at times but it serves to favor the low-stakes vibe of the project. A mostly good runtime (BOUNTY HUNTER, FOOL'S GOLD, ETA, DITTO, DESPERADO, and WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT), with a couple of duds (EASY, HOW RUDE).

I'm very ambivalent about this album. On one hand, this has some of Kendrick's best (United In Grief, N95, Worldwide Steppers, We Cry Together, Mother I Sober). On the other, it also has some of his worst decisions on a more direct level.

Many tracks off of this are really forgettable, unfortunately. Count Me Out, Die Hard, Purple Hearts, Rich Spirit and Savior (Interlude) are all like this. But if that were the biggest qualm I have with this album, I would have rated this higher. So let's ... read more

This is really great. Outside of a track I could do without (Dance Now), this is by far the best reinterpretation of the conscious strain of hip-hop for this current era of the genre. Dynamic and with tons of energy, The Forever Story is the realization of JID that I've been waiting for the development of ever since The Never Story. A serious contender as a classic album.

Leight Wight sounds exactly like a Muse song, but otherwise this full of great poppy, groovy, and glitchy tracks. Probably one of the best artists largely associated to Newgrounds' audio portal overall.

Fell off on me in terms of enjoyment a bit, but still an exciting change of pace for Quadeca's artistic direction. I can't wait for IDMTHY.