Joey Bada$$ - 2000
70

I enjoyed listen to this record, but it mostly felt like it went in one ear out the other in most cases. Production felt nice and Joey is a talented rapper

Steve Lacy - Gemini Rights
50

Steve Lacy has a pretty good voice and does create some interesting instrumentation, but this record doesn't feel like it has any substance past it's singles.

Orville Peck - Bronco
55

Orville Peck has a great voice. Instrumentation can feel a bit generic which can be fine, but most of the time I left feeling there is something missing from each song.

Amber Mark - Three Dimensions Deep
60

Production is mostly well done. Sound feels full and beats feel funky and have a nice groove. Though this record does seem suffer to from not having many great hooks. There is also a very half baked space theme shoved in the last half of the album. Sort of drags at the end.

Little Simz - NO THANK YOU
45

Little Simz is a talented lyricist, but her beats most of the time can feel a bit flat. Also, Most of her bars can feel bit long and tiring.

SZA - SOS
40

Every song in this album almost sound the same as each other. I'm not a huge fan of R&B as genre, but nevertheless this can lead to a kind of boring record. The long runtime probably doesn't help. SZA has a great voice, but I feel like her instrumentals can be a bit lifeless.

Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
75

They seem to capture a very warm and homely sound, like hearing people playing music around a campfire or going to see a folk band at a state fair. Though this record can feel a bit overwhelming sonically at points. I seem to like when the songs were more stripped back. Also the album sort of drags in the middle and end.

Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
75

There was this one video I saw about this album. They brought of the point that this is record isn't very repayable and this is due to not having many bangers and it being relatively content dense. This is a very personal record covering many difficult topics like daddy issues, domestic violence, transitioning and childhood trauma. I think many of these are pretty well covered, but a normal person can't listen to a song like We Cry Together on a regular basis. This leads to many artful pieces ... read more

Iced Earth - A Narrative Soundscape
20

Really bad audio balancing with kind of cringey lyrics and bad audio book vocal delivery. The vocals vaguely remind me of the opening narrator from the Binding Of Isaac games. This record could be interesting if they were connected story wise, but it's just disconnected biblical stories and some other stuff. It also seems like these are rerecordings of their other songs. Which is kind of funny because it's a compilation album of all their worst songs. The instrumentation is sort of ok, but ... read more

Wet Leg - Wet Leg
45

I was really bored by this record. Most of the playing and performances are fine, but the album feels like generic indie rock. The lyrics at some points are also really bad.

50

I'm really not a fan of the reggaetón genre and probably this album being a foreign language doesn't help. This record sounds very messy and I just didn't find much interesting from it. It's really unfortunate because this record is really well produced and seems to be well written.

80

The beginning of the record kind of dragged, but when the beats started getting funkier and she started developing a very sensual style of singing, I started grooving with this album a lot

Weezer - SZNZ: Winter
50

Many of the issue of modern Weezer is that it always feels like the Rivers Cuomo show and I can tell he is having a lot of fun incorporating elements of classical and Shakespearean ideas, but there is almost no noticeable or interesting input from the rest band. This leads to many of the songs being fairly generic and plain. It doesn't help that many of these songs were probably written in like a week.

SPELLLING - The Turning Wheel
50

I found this record very difficult to get into. Most of the interesting musical ideas seemed to go in one ear and out the other. This probably deserves another listen, so this will be my initial score.

The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field
60

This record didn't really excite me at any point. There were some good vocal performances or riffs but they never seemed to have them both at the same time. The song writing was pretty good, but the composition of each song grew stale over the course of the album.

Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night
60

This album feels a lot like relaxing listening to a friend play a few songs on the guitar. It is quaint and novel in a sense. Though most of the songs aren't great, the record provides a great window into what going to live performance of these great blues legends would be like.

Metro Boomin - HEROES & VILLAINS
60

Production is very well done, but I didn't find many of the performances too intriguing.

Alvvays - Alvvays
65

This record has a lot of reverb on many of its instruments and it makes it hard to understand what's going on. Though they have this problem, this album is a very good proof of concept with a really well defined sound, but it could use a bit more development to become great.

Stormzy - This Is What I Mean
85

The texture and atmosphere on this album are stellar and Stormzy's vocal performances as well as the others performers are almost perfect for this setting.

AJR - Neotheater
50

This album is incredibly overproduced with many weird choices of samples, but I can't say I was ever bored listening through this. I had very similar criticism for their previous album the Living Room, but I think they were a bit more consistent on this record.

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