ucci-silly night is such a good streak. the 3 songs take u back to the nostalgic feel good pop of the late 2000s, like the meeting point between black eyed peas' i gotta feeling and speaker knockerz. much of the rest of the album delves into some 808s & heartbreaks worship, but not in the way you'd probably expect. not taking influence from the moody autotuned vocals worked into hip hop but rather using the same orchestral instruments and focusing on the pop elements even harder. it's these ... read more

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

i think i prefer xav's more straightforward approach to jerk than the wacked out sigilkore-adjacent side to the genre that you actually kinda hear on the first track, bringing out the dance elements rather than a cacophony of sound that comes off like the audio equivalent of overdosing on cocaine ketamine and benzos all at once and all around aiming for a fun energetic listen. the problem is this shit is already getting old. it was fun when patchmade came out, and when i heard how i feel 2 it ... read more

i remember barely a week before the album came out i wrote this tweet that was like "drake's music would be so much better if he stopped trying to beat the female allegations" (it stayed in the drafts so i'm not responsible) and here i am, proven completely wrong. see one of the things that made drake stand out back in the day was his willingness to be so goddamn sappy, and sensitive. he was one of the very few male rappers i can think of at the time to gain an equally female audience ... read more

i think one of the coolest things about azealia banks is that she's creatively far beyond the contemporary pop scene yet still flirts with whatever theyre doing time to time. it's most obvious on ice princess, but i think chasing time does a better job at expressing my point. the song is heavy on the 90s rave influence that she's known for but when it gets to the chorus it's reminiscent of that mid 2010s edm pop sound, singing with so much passion it creates a euphoria that artists who ... read more

this album sounds like coming off of coke while laying in bed with someone you love but aren't actually in a relationship with and it's both as hard to listen to and beautiful as that sounds. the production is lush and the mix is massive in a way that's uncommon to hear. despite the angelic imagery, the music can get extremely raw as delcada will often belt suicidal lyrics in anguish though he also does his part to match the tone of the beats with a romantic, sweet, autotuned falsetto. it's one ... read more

the song 'yes i do' samples an older track from his simpler, less chaotic macxvii days, a mellow song where he sings "i don't need your negativity so back away" which syringe responds by repeatedly screaming "yes i do" and the rest of the song breaks into mania. it's a contrast that says his demons are winning and from this ep until his eventual breaking point in 2017 when he went missing and afterwards changed his name, this became his style 90% of the time. if you can't ... read more