I don't hate this album too much. It's clear this is a bunch of throwaway tracks from TOS and TFO so I came into it expecting a bunch of cool and interesting ideas that don't really evolve into anything bigger and I got exactly that. It's some decent tracks with some pretty funny and cringy bars every now and then but nothing that'd really change how people view him (esp given the track that shan't be named and the trans bars on Pi).

I wanna point out my appreciation for his mindset on the ... read more

It's a classic and undoubtedly so, it's a bit less conceptual than the albums that surround it but still manages to tell an interesting story of where Cole is at in life while also providing us with some of his best and most timeless songs to date.

I don't particularly hate J. Cole when he isn't doing his usual narrative/concept rap albums. I do think that his albums from 2013 to 2018 are all amazing, sure, but that isn't to say I can not enjoy an amazing rapper when I hear one. However, the dip in quality *is* there for me. I think Cole is great when he has a concept to run with because he can really write about the vices he faces in a way that provokes a lot of really good imagery, as seen on 4YEO and Once An Addict. His storytelling is ... read more

I really wasn't sure how to feel about Atavista. There is a lot, and I mean a LOT, of love in my heart for the original album (3.15.20). Its strange yet beautiful transitions, the moments of happiness, vitriol and sadness that all sit next to each other without feeling hamfisted at all, the strange lack of polish giving it a vibe I can only compare to finding a strange nameless record at the clearance section at a record shop.

Given my affinity for the original, I was unsure if Atavista would ... read more

Extremely laid back with refreshing sounds. The rapping on this matches the soulfulness of the production with all of it coming together to create an album that screams SUMMER.

Jschlatt's fatass got me into listening to music beyond just the radio through his videos on OKC and man, this album is so damn beautiful. I know it's a pretty basic opinion, but I can't get over how powerful this album is in both writing and its instrumentation. Every single piston was firing off at full force making this, and I still return to it years later and enjoy it just as much as when I first heard Jschlatt talk over snippets of it in his little short-lived series on the album.

Super overhated? For a political album, they knock it out of the park with tying political themes and their usual more abstract lyricism. Not even getting into how heavy this album is instrumentally, it deserves far more praise and recognition than it gets when discussing their discography.

It's a cute entry album that gets overhated. Detractors make good points, sure, but it's still a fairly decent grunge album.

Quite a few more interludes than I would've liked but this album will forever deserve its classic status for how emotional and dark it can get.

joke album full of scraps, few highs and even they dont touch their other best work.

Timeless classic, one of the best albums to come out in an era of a LOT of quality.

Step down but has its highs for sure

Gonna pretend the title track isn't real.

OKAY, this album and I have a very strange history together. Power Electronics have been a guilty pleasure of mine for years since I first discovered them through artists like Nurse With Wound and Merzbow. Something about the genre feels so interesting with how raw it is, but Whitehouse always took it to the next level for me. The hatred was always so *palpable* with their works. Listening to Bird Seed feels like listening to something too grotesque ... read more

GUYS DONT FORGET ABOUT ME GUYS PLEASE IM STILL COOL RIGHT

Cute album but the weird british impersonation takes me out of it

I've always appreciated the south when it came to hip hop, but I would've never thought southern hip hop could sound *this* good. Amazing and especially impressive when you consider it being a double album, a concept that time and time again gets misunderstood and underutilized as a concept.

This album is very refreshing, even if some of the tracks don't land perfectly. The instrumentation and writing are great and feel almost cozy at times, like an auditory bowl of chicken noodle soup.

How did they do this? How did they make an album this good? They took two of my favorite things -- the colour yellow and birds -- and made a great album with catchy highs and surprisingly manageable lows, which is surprising knowing just how unimaginably bad their lows can get.

His best album with his best song and some of his most passionate performances. This album takes Cole's best attributes and turns them up to eleven. This has some of his best written, hardest hitting and most emotional songs in a career full of lyrical and storytelling masterclass works. The story he manages to tell in this story of a man who fears death and finds himself learning to appreciate what matters most in the time he has left on the short amount of time a man in his position is ... read more

Drake will be fried and fed to the goons. His career is over.