Out of the three pack of music Drake released the past week, Maid of Honor is, to me, certainly the weirdest. While ICEMAN had the intention of being an actual record with a few conceptual elements here and there (the "Make Them" series of songs being a complete "arc" throughout the album") and Habibti trying to be a more "turn your brain off and have fun" type of album, I have to wonder...what did Drake attempt to do, or say, artistically with this ... read more

“Some nights I wish I could go back in life, not to change shit, just to feel a couple things twice” is genuinely the best and most relateable thing this man ever wrote.

EDIT: Also, "Energy" gets more and more relateable the older i get, methinks.

Drake's very best album. You could argue that, after this, Nothing really was the same. Introspective, yet boastful and confident it paints a vivid portrait of the, at the time, young rapper.

Tuscan Leather is his very best intro and this brand of Rnb/Rap combo is the very best Drake ever did. The cinematic atmosphere and the very introspective lyricism makes this one of the very greatest pieces Drake ever recorded.

Will try to give this one a song for song, eventually.

Not a perfect album, I still think it's overly long and you could cut a lot of songs, but it's damn cool. It's Drake's best in terms of truly mixing variety in sounds here.

It's boastful and braggadocious but also mellow and, at times, a tad introspective. Drake's penchant for hot pockets of melodies is present here.

I do think some of Drake's worst qualities did start with this album: Marathon lengths, corny bars, egotistical bars that rival Ye's, ... read more

Drake's Habibti represents him tapping back into a more RnB bag than ICEMAN.

First off, I think Drake deserves major props here: Diving his work into three different albums, while a bit overbearing, does show semblance of self editing, as I think it makes for a better experience than ICEMAN being interrupted by some of the cuts here.

That said, I didn't find much in Habibti I would come back to, personally. I gotta say right off the bat: RnB Drake has never been a favourite of ... read more

Drake's ICEMAN is probably his best album from the 2020's so far, but I do think it's still long ways from his best work. That said, the album's overall discussion is exhausting turning ICEMAN into schrodinger's album; both overrated and underrated at the same time.

The album has a fantastic start, probably Drake's best in a while, with Make Them Cry. It's stunningly produced and Drake flaunts his introspective muscle talking about his place in the industry, ... read more

Probably my hottest Kanye take is that I don't really found myself enjoying Graduation as much as the prior two albums in his discography, which makes the "But he made Graduation" rethoric unappealing to me. "He made The College Dropout" should be the standard, lol.

That said, it's by no means a bad album. It's Kanye's most hit-heavy album and most of them are incredibly iconic reference points in his discography. From "Stronger" being an ... read more

one of my personal favourite debuts of all time.

st vincent's performance is jaw-droppingly beautiful and her writing is sharp. It's seductive, whimsical, heartbreaking and poetic.

will be coming back to this, also.

blur's brand of melancholia has never sounded so mature. It's a love letter to aging, lost love and the passing of time in general. It's a tad moody at times and its second half could've used some uptempo tracks, but still a phenomenal achievement for everyone involved.

"the ballad" is a depressing ode to a relationship slowly fading away and it captures brilliantly the sadness of that moment. "St Chales Square" follows through with a chaotic mental ... read more

13 is blur's mental breakdown, it's messy and uncomfortable but also finds beauty within that chaos and finishes with a new version of the band.

blur's blur truly feels like a blur; hazy, a tad confusing and beautiful in a space-y way.

downright the most br*tish thing ever created, wdym sunday sunday is a real song

favourite tracks: chemical world, sunday sunday, for tomorrow, advert, colin zeal.

britpop excess and blur at its posh-est, but still a pretty fun album, i was obsessed with this one as a kid but can see the flaws on it as I get older, I still find it to be an incredible britpop album.

I love the thematic continuation of Parklife, as Damon gets to delve into the psyche of a myriad of characters which he uses as a vehicle to comment on London's, at the time, modern life. From men whose only characteristic is the money they have, to people trying to escape modern life ... read more

for such a fun-laid back album, it's interesting how many of these songs explore characters living these empty, directionless lives; an interesting dichotomy that is present throughout the album, which presents its main thesis through these characters: try and live your life the way you really want to live it, experience life with purpose, joy and, most importantly, love and community.

i will come back to give a track-by-track of this, but im kinda sleepy rn.

kinda the prettiest album ever made, unironically. Every song is jaw-droppingly beautiful and produced to absolute perfection.

It's melancholic, yet incredibly hopeful. It also has such a humanistic perspective, exploring the symbiotic relationship we have with ourselves, with creativity and the world around us. "The Spark That Bled" is an excellent metaphor for creative spark and burnout.

The Spiderbite Song is such a tender, caring song about taking care of someone you love ... read more

feels lowkey like a kick in the balls to me; a sensation of both absolute pain and a bit of sexual gratification as i rlly like cock and ball torture, more than this album really.

it's almost good, is what I mean. It would've been better with more punch, also; just like a punch to the balls.

FAVE TRACKS: King, ALL THE LOVE, MAMA'S FAVOURITE.

worst: genuinely what the fuck is CIRCLES, i also hate peso pluma in everything, so LAST BREATH is another lowlight.

this album in particular is so fucking funny. wdym you got "porks and beans", "troublemaker" and "angel and the one" in THE SAME TRACKLIST.

It's, in a way, the most weezer album that ever weezered. It's got the good, the bad and the ugly that the band has carried throughout their entire career; which is also the album's greatest strength, it's self awareness about exactly what it is. It isn't weezer pretending to be someone else like in ... read more

a decent return for weezer that has me looking forward to whatever crazy shit mr weezer is cooking. It's got the best production of any Weezer song in recent memory sans OK HUMAN, which was a departure for their usual sound so I don't really count it for this argument.

The buildup and chorus are genuinely great but the verses hold back this song to me, stopping it from being truly great. It's got the same bouncy boom-boom-chop drumming of Beverly Hills, but Rivers performance ... read more

if make believe was 9/11, this in particular was the moment when the second plane hit the other tower. It's a middle age crisis turned tracklist with vomit inducing songs like "I'm Your Daddy", "The Girl Got Hot" and "Let it All Hang Out" which are words I never want to hear from Cuomo again.

The album tries to both follow usual pop trends from the era, with most songs being written by other songwriters, it also tries to pretend its reject them, ... read more

beverly hills is kinda like 9/11 for weezer fans because of how inescapable it is to the conversation around them and how it defined them afterwards. Some still shake at its mention, but unironically, it's not terrible, and also hasn't aged as terrible as it was when it released.

that said, the rest of the album might be worst, and genuinely ass at times. Perfect Situation is a fine song, but damn does it feel like an overproduced track from this era. There are genuinely hundreds of ... read more