A lot of this album is supposed to create atmosphere. Instruments: forget interesting chord progressions and melodies, let's create atmosphere. Quadeca's voice: no, let's not create interesting melodies or tell a story, make the voice the atmosphere too. While quadeca admittingly, creates some insanely good atmospheres on this album, for the most part, that's all it really has. And while quadeca's production is impressive, it's too quadeca. There's no actual ... read more

Never listened to deftones before this. What a pleasant surprise. The production is some of the best I've ever heard in metal. The textures of the guitar and the little pyschedelic synths you occasionally hear in the background are just Masterclasses of manipulating production choices ever so slightly to give off a certain feeling. The instrumentation, and especially the drumming, is absolutely phenomenal. The intimate story he tells throughout (hence the album title private music) is ... read more

This is really more like a 6.5 but the overall user score of this album needs to be much higher so I'm doing my due diligence. It's the good Ole classic, a mainstream artist that I'm used to being shit finally made something interesting, but because I hate the artist for previously making shit, I'm gonna pretend he didn't make anything interesting. I don't care if you hate Justin, give credit where credit is due. It's a decent album. Super vibey, great guitar ... read more

I'm convinced most of y'all rating this horribly are rockers who've never heard of electronic music, cuz this album is really good. It certainly isn't perfect. The songs are slow and drawn out and every now and then it takes me out of it, but it works for the most part. The lyrics are great. I love the mix of organic guitar with electronic synths, evening I feel the guitar riffs are very similar to each other at times. Personal Prometheus is a masterpiece. The fact ... read more

This is a solid art pop/rap/house/dance album. It's got some crazy unique production on the front half, but the middle half lacks. It feels as if FKA Twigs doesn't know how to sit in sadness on production and still make it interesting so she has to speed it up everytime. It makes those slow songs cluttered and confusing. I thought that the North West feature was kinda bad. While the album does end with three very good songs starting with striptease which has gotta be my favorite on ... read more

Y'all are crazy to give this anything but at least a 9. I haven't felt this way about an album since imaginal disk. This is one of the best synth albums I've ever heard, period. It's an incredible cinematic closer to weeknd discography that wraps up all of the themes perfectly. The pacing is quite literally perfect, the chords and melodies being used are crazy good. I mean what else do you want from an album, another tpab? Just because the album rollout was mediocre ... read more

Great production throughout. Incredible lyrics and storytelling especially in tracks "Judge Judy" or "Take Your Mask Off" (FYI tomorrow is underrated as hell and so is Judge Judy). The incredible horns that back songs like "Sticky" and "I Killed You" as well as the beautiful piano and guitar that back "Like Him" with that song in particular being the heartwrenching. The song "Take Your Mask Off" feels like a song I've already ... read more

Amazing instrumentation and flows from jpegmafia. His wild expiremental cross genre alternative metal rap lends him some incredible tracks on this album. It's not a perfect project however, with some moments primarily towards the end with some questionable production as well as the lyrics being subpar at best throughout. That being said, it's still very solid.

It's a really solid debut from Geordie. While there are some hiccups like for example bongo season and some parts of some songs that I think drag on a bit, it's a solid album and a stellar debut. Amazing instrumentation and some interesting lyrics. Great album

Best production I've ever heard, super cohesive and so many songs perfectly transition into each other. Great story and just one of the best albums I've ever heard.

"She Looked Like Me!" is a huge start to the record with massive drums and Christmas bell sounding atmosphere bells that alternate left ear to right ear. It also introduces the theme of the album effectively

"Killing Time" is a song with deep metaphors about how time is killing her and how she ... read more

This is not aoty. It's a solid album with good production, really well done album pacing, along with some bangers and vulnerable tracks but it is VERY overrated. Some songs like apple (no I'm not apologizing for this take) b2b, and the second half everything is romantic feels repetitive, stale, or predictable. There are some obvious flaws that people are either blatantly ignoring cuz fantano is god or maybe charli has a fan base that facilitates this sort of behavior. I have no clue ... read more

This is my first full length billy strings album listen as well as my first bluegrass one as well. Gotta say I'm very impressed. The rich fast paced instrumentation leaves me entertained even if I think the song is repetitive or not as good as some of the others. The brilliant as well as the acoustic instruments are playing in such an incredible way in which you can these are masters of their craft playing them. The fun folk stories can get a bit repetitive, but never too boring cuz as ... read more

Mustafa's amazing voice and unique folk alternative blend along with his beautiful poetry lends way to a beautiful album with themes of religion and love, whether that be romantic or platonic, as well as themes of growing up in a hood environment and all the personal issues that come with that. That being said, sometimes the melodies are predictable and the album doesn't flow as well as it could. Either way it's a solid album and I'll definitely be replaying a lot songs ... read more

Very quiet and vulnerable piece of art. Though it has some slight imperfections almost every song is replayable for ages. Overall a great album.

Although I love many of these songs and I think the production is outstanding, and I think the jvke's voice just incredible I do have some criticisms. For one, the lyric content is okay at best. For two, the "story" that's it trying to give goes off okay at best and the album gets boring towards the end. It's not the best album you've heard but it's certainly not the worst.

A story as good as this with amazing lyrical work and not one bad song is worthy of all praise this album gets plus more.