Beautifully crafted and sweetly sung but it could use with some smarter lyrics at times

Absolutely stunning. One of the best and most underappreciated hip hop albums of the 2010s

I feel like Woody Allen 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I'm going to hang myself

Definitely a lot to love here, especially from the production side of things. The instruments sound incredible and the beats are gorgeously layered - I hope more rappers take influence from this record (and most Gambino albums in general) and start using real acoustic instruments in their music. It really does make everything feel so much more real.

That being said, the record is too inconsistent lyrically and performance-wise to be anything I could ever listen to front-to-back again. For ... read more

Would've gone crazy for this if I was 36

I don't know. It's another Eilish release that underwhelmes more than it overwhelmes. She is clearly so talented and she has proven that time and time again on some of her singles but her LPs are just too inconsistent to ever be called great in my eyes. I thought the short tracklist on this one would remove that issue but I was wrong.

Billie sings her heart out here but the instrumentals are so bare and empty that it leaves me feeling nothing, not helped by the so-so lyrics this time ... read more

This debut studio LP from Noname was a very solid little record on which she raps her ass off over some sweet-if-unpretentious beats. Every feature here is a highlight but I especially enjoyed Saba's inclusion on Ace - he really makes that track stand out.

I was left feeling somewhat empty upon this initial listen as I feel the album never quite came together as one and none of the songs ever quite reached their full potential sonically, but I think that may change upon further listens.

Pretty but soul-less vocals over mediocre beats. Not enough ideas for a 10 minute EP, let alone a 20 minute mixtape.