Similarly to The Royal Scam, there's only one song I dislike here and it's purely due to lyrical content. Steely Dan is so consistently good it's unreal.
The fact that Tigers Blood only has a user score of 75 further cements my belief that most people are just unnecessarily biased against anything country-adjacent. Ts deserves the purple must hear, man...
Katie Crutchfield is like a top 10 female vocalist for me, and this album is the peak of her discography at this point in time. While the overall sound here does feel much more curated for mass appeal than most of her other work, this also feels like Waxahatchee's most lyrically competent ... read more
Just casually architecting an entire generation of sound, no big deal.
I'm honestly kind of dumbfounded to see that so many people think Late Registration is Kanye's best album—ever since I first explored his discography years ago I've thought it was bottom 3, pretty easily. The College Dropout is one of my favorite albums of all time, and I love Graduation too, but I've just never connected the same way with the second in the college trilogy, and I can't truly get myself into it no matter how many times I revisit. I really wish I ... read more