notemo

once a breath of fresh air, now a tired rendition of the style. once a pioneer, now eight years behind. once a producer prodigy, now type-beat tier. once a passionate singer, now lifeless crooning. once occasionally really catchy, now unmemorable. once a poor lyricist, still a poor lyricist. damn.

idk why i didn't have this rated until now but this shit just has the essence of good music. for years i was saying "i love old bladee but dont really like him post-gluee", for years i was saying eversince is boring. i still gave it another shot many times due to loving the first two tracks so much but rarely i actually got far. i gave up after a few years and never listened to it until much later when i was at the end of a 2c-b trip which i say not to sell the idea of psychedelics ... read more

i had gotten so bored of sematary, which is sad, because at one point he was one of the most exciting rappers to follow. grave house was a breath of fresh air but ultimately nothing too groundbreaking (it grew on me later), and then rainbow bridge came out based predominantly around black metal samples and while i didn't like it as much i admired the experimentation. rainbow bridge 2 was more of the same but reasonably so; it's only 3 months after the first one and they're the same series after ... read more

ive never described an album as sounding "aged" before without referencing it following trends that have died out long ago but here we are, and after actually thinking about the album title i don't feel so weird in doing so. of course the muffled audio is a big part of why that's the first adjective to come to mind, the recordings sounding worn down themselves, but disregard that and the slow melancholic bare-bones piano playing still warrants the same imagery. brick buildings ... read more