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An album much stranger than it is good. What I'm most baffled about with this record is it's critical acclaim. What on this album are people hearing that makes them so enamored by it. Maybe it's somewhat heady or cerebral in pockets. Now and again a pleasant instrument or sound comes through the noise but it's like a radio with poor reception. Half of it is static, the sound is coming from nowhere, building little of interest then leaving without much reason. It's not even that I'm repulsed by ... read more

Will of the People is a baffling album because, on every level, it fails to do things that Muse has successfully done before. It sounds like every other muse album, just worse. If I had to portray it favorably, the best I can say about is it's not as bad as Imagine Dragons. Even then, I'm not so sure.

When I first encountered Gorillaz, it was exactly as musician Damien Albarn and Illustrator Jamie Hewlett originally intended. They were on MTV. I woke up one morning at my babysitter's to see that windmill island from their Feel Good Inc music video flash across the living room screen before my sister and I walked to our elementary school. I recall the forelorn punk boyishness in 2D's voice before I'd known what punk even was. In an interview about Demon Days, Albarn cites a train ride he took ... read more

The Best album of the 2020s thus far.