OldmanJohn
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Utopia is such a conflicting album for me because, on one hand, the production is incredible and some of the best in modern trap, but on the other hand, it contains some of the most vapid and nothing writing Travis has ever penned. The album is so grandiose and sets up such immaculate set pieces only for the amateurish writing to make it seem less like a dark opus and more like "I'm 14 and this is deep". The conceptual fumble of this album as well as shit ton of questionable and ... read more
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Everything surrounding this album, the aesthetic of the "HARDSTONE PSYCHO", is simply not reflected well at all in the music. There are no thematic elements tying anything together. Having 4 disks with hard ass names is nothing but window dressing. Outside of spectacle tracks like "TORE UP", "BANDIT" and "HARDSTONE NATIONAL ANTHEM", Don Toliver does not do enough to differentiate himself instrumentally from other popular Trap artists. His vocals are ... read more
As my first foray into Atmospheric black metal music and my first time listening to black metal in general, I was pleasantly surprised.
However, I don't know how much of my enjoyment of this album comes from the fact that Panopticon's music is genuinely great or whether it's just the novelty of the genre that I find alluring.
His rapping is insufferable and only 1 in every 5 beats is actually any good.
Second half definitely picks up the pace though, that dubstep shit was awful.
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