i normally love records that sound like shit, but this genuinely just sounds like absolute shit, no thanks
Is it a decent track? Yeah, it's whatever. Is it the sound I really want from this band, or think they perform the best? Absolutely not. I felt like I was in 2010 and listening to some city and colour song.
YESSSS.
I thought their debut was great - my major drawback being that I felt so much more bite could be given across the tracklisting, and this record just comes along and improves on simply every front
not really my thing at all - incredibly bland and washed out compared to their best work.
'Breathe Deeper' and 'Is It True' have some nice grooves, but the rest of the record is completely forgettable to me
Whilst it's great to get a project between these two, it sadly feels like Madlib barely went a folder deep into what I'm sure is a vaster than we can imagine array of instrumentals, and the lack of switch up between Madlib handling the production and Oh No with the vocals leads to this record being far more linear than it should be.
They're back!... but they're not.
I'd like to take you back to 2011, where I was about to turn 14 and discovered 'I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose', an album which still to this day takes me riiight back to those six week summer holidays, with tracks like 'Always Like This', 'The Hill' and 'What If' still being dear to me to this day.
But we're in 2020, not 2011, and Bombay Bicycle Club seems to have sacrificed everything that was enjoyable about their debut into this dull, overly ... read more
Soundtracks For The Blind, whilst a great piece of art, is absolutely overrated in not just its acclaim, but by self-proclaimed fans who hear one critical opinion of it (most likely Anthony Fantano), listen to the first 40 minutes of this two and a half hour behemoth, finish and rate it a 95, only to never touch it again. I doubt the majority of those 477 near-perfect raters have actually listened to the entire thing. Nobody actually listens to this album.
The average play count of each track ... read more
Bandana is packed full of potential hits - and in all honestly is an okay release - but I feel this really pales in comparison to Piñata. No track on here really bites like Scarface does, no beat on here blew me the fuck away like the build up of Thuggin, no track hits me the same way Freddie's second verse on Broken does, and no beat feels as intoxicatingly good as High's does.
Overall, Madlib's production feels much less inspired, and Freddie seems to have swapped one of my ... read more