Archy really leans in on the vibe side of things here, but the execution is incredible and the atmosphere this album builds is one of the best I've heard. It's a pretty depressing album, but there are moments of simple joy shining through the existential dread that capture a really unique way of feeling content with life. Listening to this while walking around the city in the evening is one of my favorite listening experiences ever.

I'm giving an 80 for "Wow, we will never get tired of the 80's". The album sounds awesome though, there are like, cool trap rhythm parts, the writing is good and Ariana's singing is magnificent, overall a very solid record imo.

More than anything, this album is uninteresting. It's not even funny bad, genuinely a complete waste of time.

On Take Care, Drake finally materializes his potential into something that's original, catchy and fun to listen to. There are some rough spots here and there, but unlike his older projects, they are anomalies inside a very well put-together album. It also feels refreshing to hear a rapper talk about women in a way that isn't blatantly objectifying. Keep on slaying, Drizzy!

As a debut album, I think Thank Me Later is a well made project with good production but it gets so mind-numbingly boring and monotone at certain points that it gets hard to truly appreciate it beyond a surface level. The features on here go hard tho.

I've never listened to Drake much, so I decided to check out all of his projects chronologically. As an introduction, So Far Gone sets a pretty strong vibe, but a lot of it sounds very cheap and underproduced. A lot of the tracks are complete snoozers and I don't think Lil Wayne really compliments Drake on his many a feature, but there are definitely some bangers and songs that I could see playing as acceptable background noise. I definitely understood what Drake was aiming for better by the ... read more

GY!BE will have a movement called "The Bombs Drop on Government Pt. 4 (EVIL STATE FUCKERS)" and it's the most beautiful, emotional, harrowing piece of music you've ever heard

This was the first Rapsody project I listened to, and I was blown away. The production is groovy and laid-back, and Rapsody just effortlessly flows over it. It's super satisfying to just vibe to this stuff, and while it's not super innovative or whatever, the overall execution is so strong you just can't help but be happy listening to it.

I don't care anymore. I love you Peggy. Be my girl.

Hilarious

When you think of politically charged, radical anarcho-Marxist rock, the last thing you'd expect is for your ears to be blessed with the most ethereally beautiful music you've ever heard, but that's Godspeed for ya. The lengthy, atmospheric wandering of their early works is unmatchable, and no one will ever compose anything better. I'm sorry, but tell me I'm wrong though.
GY!BE seems to realize that, so for the past few records, they've been trying to move forward. Catchier song structures, ... read more

Listening to this is equally as enjoyable as listening to complete silence, so why bother? What justifies the existence of this song, other than Adam Levine's paycheck? We don't need this, nay, we don't deserve this.

Congratulations isn't the most focused album ever, but it gets its sound across very well. It makes me want to joyously frolic in the lush, green meadows and celebrate the wonderful absurdity of life with all nature. Name-dropping my boy Brian Eno like that is a bit out there tho.

There is some ironic enjoyment to be found within Neotheater. Unfortunately, that's also this album's main issue: disingenuity. You can't pull this personal shit on me while the whole thing sounds like the dumbest, most out-of-touch pop garbage. Sometimes it's funny-bad, but mostly it's just bad-bad.

Even considering the impressively low bar for bullshit singer-songwriter piano ballad breakup songs, Someone You Loved comes across as the most unimaginative, half-assed and amateurish execution of the laziest idea in modern pop music. This shit makes 7 Years by Lucas Graham sound like Strawberry Fields Forever.

No autotune, no trap beats, no Swedish songwriters - Red is what happens when extremely talented and creative people decide to do whatever the fuck they want. Consider the hoes scared.

Utopia is Travis' most ambitious album yet, but under all the high-profile features and fancy production, it's just Travis in a dark void of self-indulgence, kinda like the cover. It almost feels like he saw Kanye out of the picture, and decided he should be hip hop's new egotistical genius. At least with Kanye, him projecting being an asshole into his music was done interestingly, here it just feels bitter and uncomfortable. It's so empty I don't think the production on its own can carry it. ... read more

More like Mid A, amirite?
No, but seriously, I don't think I'll ever get this album. It's kinda a comforting listen for me, with how silky-smooth most of the instrumentals are. There's a very strong vibe going on, like waiting for a bus on a quiet, snowy evening, if that makes sense? That's about as deep as Kid A has ever gone for me. While it's a pretty enjoyable listen, a lot of the nuance gets drowned under Radiohead trying to do something unorthodox for the sake of doing something ... read more

Beck does what Beck does best: a shit ton of acid. Every song on this album sounds stupid for its own, unique reasons, and being constantly stunned by whatever comes next is a thing of beauty. You could not make an album like this today, which is probably good for society; even so, Odelay captures a deeply captivating slither of culture that opens my fifth eye and makes me growl like a Kawasaki KLX250S dirt bike.