characterized by consistency issues and an overall beautiful sound that lets them get away with it. for their first album without their genius frontman it's pretty good, and I think once they really find their footing they'll speed off running just as fast as before, just in a different direction.
I would sooner die than pick a favorite black midi album.
The boys rawest album, characterized by a connection to post-hardcore and a closer semblance to math rock than prog, to good effect. It's more consistent than Hellfire and peaks higher than Cavalcade, a sort of happy medium between the two in that sense.
I would sooner die than pick a favorite black midi album.
Likely the band's most consistent effort, more keen on a jazzy sound than their other albums and to good effect. It makes up for what it comes up short in by not missing once in its runtime.
I would sooner die than pick a favorite black midi album.
Beautiful proggy chaos fills this album while complex narratives are spun song by song, each one captivating in its own way.
it used to be so peak to me but I've slowly realized I constantly overrate it based on how good the first half is
Maturing is realizing this is better than their self titled album. I've prefered Mr. Bungle's debut for a while, but I've realized despite how fun it is it has its issues including falling off in the second half, whereas this album has a debatably more consistent edge to its tracklist and general sound.
It's no OK Computer but this second disk of B-Sides is pretty generational for well... B-Sides. Aside from the astouding first three tracks that open it, songs like A Reminder, Lull, Polyethylene and Pearly* stand out as phenomenal.
A mindblower of an album with a slight problem.
darkskin fellas with lightskin problems (I'm a humble whyte boy I can't say that </3) is an album that really helps contributing to the narrative that experimental hip hop has been doing heavy lifting for the scene this year along with PRETTY DOLLCORPSE, Stardust, Revengeseekerz and Dead Channel Sky, but it has a different sort of taste to it than these other albums. These albums are all aided by each track having a distinct ... read more
it almost sounds like imagine dragons but if it was shitty unearned maximalist gospel instead of shitty unearned maximalist pop rock... so captivating...
An eclectic mess of a masterpiece, made coherent and cohesive in having so few ties between each song that you stop expecting many connections and accept it as simply Mr. Bungle. Once you can do that you are given something truly phenomenal, no misses in any style attempted and one of the best rock albums ever.
the most i've ever related with any musician on the first listen of an album. this feels like someone who'd been in my head and felt every personal struggle i'd faced in some way or another. no wonder i cried by the end of the first listen. it's the most sonically engaged i've been with any Pat the Bunny album other than maybe Burn the Earth, and the lack of abrassiveness in the tone or the business of a full band is appropriate for the personal and broken tone of this ... read more
Not quite the epitome of jazz that the original Bitches Brew is, but it's hardly fair to dock these sessions for not being as flawless as what was, by definition, cherrypicked from them. Great Expectations, Yaphet, Corrado, Trevere, Guinnevere, Feio, Double Image and Recollections are good enough that any one of them could've been on the original and it'd still be perfect to me. The fact it's so easily engaging and interesting despite its four and a half hour runtime is a ... read more
Coltrane had A Love Supreme. Mingus had The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. Most people think Miles Davis had Kind of Blue, but I'd argue the long stretching, the avant-garde, the fittingly bitchin' Bitches Brew, is his real magnum opus.
This is an album that sees Miles with some of the best company he has on any album of his, accompanied by the great John McLaughlin, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, and plenty of other phenomenal jazz players throughout. For an album that is an hour and ... read more
Imagine my Recovery review but I glaze Royce Da 5'9" and say the lows are lower bc that's this. All I can say is "it isn't Eminem's worst" and "it's mid" because that's all it demands.
MMLP2, similarly to SSLP, is defined by its inconsistencies. With some of my all time favorite Em songs like Bad Guy, Berzerk and Love Game and a good few more that could be mentioned, as well as Stronger Than I Was and Asshole along with their own cohort of bad songs, you get a stew of gold and garbage from this album. Overall though, I'd say the peaks are far more memorable than the lows, and they're generally more prevalent too.
More relaxed than the Eminem being given to the listener on TES and MMLP, but seemingly plenty vicious regardless. This album is defined by its consistency issues, having some genuinely great peaks like Role Model, Rock Bottom and My Name Is on top of plenty of misses like Cum on Everybody, As the World Turns, and My Fault. It ends up evening out to a still pretty good album by the end, and debatably deserves more than that, but for now I'm pretty confident in my rating.
Eminem's less conistent but still amazing peaking album. Cleanin' Out My Closet, White America, Without me and 'Till I Collapse are all generally phenomenal songs reaching just short of MMLP's peaks, though in exchange it has two of my least favorite Eminem songs ever pre-Revival, being Drips and Sayt What You Say. In addition to that it has plenty of variance between the good and the middling, mostly waning off as the tracklist progresses.
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