This is a great project! production is really cool overall, although i do think the 808s can be a bit loud at many points. All the rapping/singing is really good, and the vocal effects work a lot of the time for me. This is also a great title, with the cover fitting the vibe and sound of the project really well. Great project, i can really see the potential here to grow and make even better music.
The production throughout on this album is really good, Pharrell keeping the energy up with previous works and adding some cool sounds. Unfortunately, the first half feels fairly weak to me, at least relatively; the features felt like they had some weird effects on them. Luckily, it picks up like CRAZY on the second half, with every single song there being great. The Nas feature might be the best on the album, its really strong and his delivery fits the production amazingly. I think that this ... read more
Now why would they do that to him? that looks like it hurt a lot.
Seriously though, this project is great; the raw aggression and power shown on here is unlike anything else, at least in this genre. The intensity of the guitar is really cool, and theres at least one riff each song that is so cool and unique, it helps this album lift to the heights it does. The polyrhythms are often so wild and really stand out, just how clean they come in and out with still being so weird is a great ... read more
This has similar vibes to like 90s albums, it carries the same type of aura and vibes. It sounds really great, Freddie Gibbs has a really amazing voice for rap, and his flow is also amazing at nearly every point on this record. The production is so great and distinctly Madlib, it's just so clean and nice-sounding. The sample use is also impeccable as always, and it fits really well with Freddie's delivery. There also a lot of just really fun moments where they were just having fun and ... read more
Theres SO MUCH CHARISMA here, all the artists work great together and really add a lot of cool energy and vibes. The sampling here was genuinely crazy, especially for coming out in 1993, and it really helps that the production also sounds great. It really feels like you are just hanging out with them while they spit some of the most insane bars of all time. Hearing all these one-liners that are constantly referenced for the first time was honestly really cool as well.
Maybe i just don't get it. It all sounds good; the weird sounds throughout are cool and really appealing to me. The meaning/concept of the whole project is also GREAT, but theres far too many features, they kinda drowns out a lot of the Gorillaz part which is quite unfortunate. The couple of big name features also feel like they lower the impact of the album's meaning a tiny bit. Not bad in any regard, but not quite as enjoyable as their first two projects to me.
This is one of the scariest album covers of all time. It's so menacing, and for good reason. Holy SHIT this album is intense; it's so hellish and over the top without ever really becoming funny, which is such an accomplishment. The guitarwork here is also quite absurd, along with the drums. Theres some sounds here that i cannot imagine actually being played due to their speed and intensity. If this released during the Satanic Panic, all metal would be permanently banned and i'm ... read more
This is far and away Death Grips' most insane album, which is an almost unbelievable feat for a group such as this. Bottomless Pit really manages to bring up some of their craziest and over-the-top sounds, and the result is one of the most intense albums released in all of music. In fact, I remember that on my first listen, I was so blown away by it that my jaw was on the floor the entire time, and I could barely form any words or thoughts on the album at all. In terms of lyrics, this ... read more
Nothing here really sounds all that bad. It does sound extremely similar throughout, and there's some really melodramatic tracks that are really corny. Not bad, but not anything really interesting or great.
This album has some REALLY cool ideas, and there's a lot of weird experimentation on here that mixes with the pop aspects. Even though I am not the biggest fan of most pop music, this takes that and shakes it up and around so much that there's not a solid through-line for it being fully pop. The way it faces sexuality is also really nice in theory, but I still find the way it directly addresses it in the lyrics is quite strange, despite it being admirable. Not something I personally ... read more
One of the most genre-defining albums of all time. Nothing ever really falters here, everything is just consistently great. This is unbelievably iconic, and for really good reason.
This album mostly sounds good, theres some great production here occassionally. It is REALLY funny though, its so grand but in a movie-soundtrack way which makes it corny at many points, especially with what kanye is saying, his word choice is really too simple at many points for it to be taken seriously.
This is a really great EP that achieves exactly what it was set out to do, be a fun collab project where they both feel like they slide together like puzzle pieces. The storyline throughout is also quite cool (from the video), and overall everything here just sounds great.
The sampling here is absolutely insane, especially for the time. The giant church bell and the air raid sirens being sampled is so cool, and the guitar riffs being played are really quite incredible throughout. James' vocals here also add a lot, filling space when needed along with helping shape the album into the form it is. This was a great first introduction to Metallica i will say, really enjoyable and im looking forward to seeing their other projects from this era.
really beautiful album. The loop of loving, losing that love, then falling back into that cycle is so sad and hits so hard. Everything here also sounds amazing, the stnths and drums and everything here form a full album that meets the artistic vision amazingly.
this sounds REALLY good, and i like how thundercat turned common phrases into ways to talk about emotions and feelings.
Not bad, but people are WAY overrating this. JID does well on each song, but the features are all pretty mid to bad. Glad these are scraps, the quality of a full project isnt really here which is unfortunate, but understandable.
This sounds really good throughout honestly, theres some really great riffs and the vocals don't sound bad either. There are some moments where the mixing is really weird, and some songs are far too long, but they still tend to sound good. The stories it tells throughout feels cohesive as well, for being as long as it is nothing ever really fails in that regard. Had a lot of potential, and met most of it.
EDIT: yeah, now this is one of my favorite albums. I LOVE the laid back feeling of everything, even with how unpredictable everything is it manages to be coherent. I really like the way that this uses its specific type of strangeness and experiments with a sound that nothing has replicated.
Nobody was moving quite like them at the time. This record is really admirable, there is SO much weird stuff on here that is unmatched in its genuine aura of strangeness. Everything about this is really ... read more