Album Review #81
After the amazing Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? my expectations were set in the sky and yet McKinley Dixon crushed through them, this is jazz rap greatness. While a bit less smooth than BPJ, the roughness adds so much character into an already infectiously creative project. You can feel the feeling permeate through the air as you listen. It really is magic.

Favourite Songs: Sugar Water, Magic, Alive!, Could've Been Different

Album Review #80
While Unmusique certainly contains Lucy's signature flair, it lacks that hard to come by "magic" that made Sisterhood and Fête de la Vanille stand out from the crowd. Still a really good project, it just feels like an overall standardization of the sound and themes. Much safer play, and to be honest looking at the features as well I wouldn't be surprised if this is the album to make Lucy blow up more than ever before.

Favourite Songs: Ultraviolet, ... read more

Album Review #79
I desperately try to cling to Weiland's new ventures hoping that it will just click as much as I want it to one day, but that hasn't happened yet. It's vibey, but ultimately not for me.

Favourite Songs: Let You Go, The Girl Is Not Mine, Promise

Album Review #78
It was designed to be auxable, and it is pretty auxable. Fun album, every song individually went hard as fuck, but it just doesn't translate to a great listening experience for a whole album.

Favourite Songs: Watch Da Throne, Sunny Dayz, 3AM in ToKEYo

Album Review #77
So fucking hard. Unbelievably consistent too. Has all the benefits of a producer tape, the way each song flows into the next one is absolutely perfect. Every time I felt even a tiny bit bored the project just decided to hit me with a mind-blowing switch up. Every single feature absolutely delivered too, especially Lunchbox, who I hope gets more recognition from his contribution. Overall pure Hip-Hop

Favourite Songs: Sin City, Dolemite, Shaq & Kobe

Single Review #14

Such a dense atmosphere and so much chemistry between everyone involved that it's hard to not be impressed. By far the best song the group dropped under the name 99 Neighbors. The haunting, dreary beat does so much work and they all know what to do with it. Simply gorgeous

Album Review #76
Very nice project overall but just not what I'm looking for personally. I'm happy for him to show so much personal growth over the years, but at a certain point the direction he took just doesn't click as much with me as his earlier stuff. I think this album set out a goal, and achieved it, its just that that goal wasn't in line with what I had in mind, and that's fine.

Favourite Songs: Paranoid Paparazzi, I'm Your Dirt, I'm Your Love, ... read more

Album Review #75
God I don't think it's possible for Bladee to not make an enchanting masterpiece every time he works on a project. This short and very digestible little EP is very pretty and as always the aesthetics around it are a masterclass. The music always sounds good, but what really makes Bladee one of my favourite musicians of all time is the attention to detail in theming, from project titles, to song titles, to album covers and lyrics. It's just such a tidy package of ... read more

Album Review #74
Gorillaz was a fascinating project to me ever since I've first heard about its concept of a "virtual band" back when I was a kid. Took me a while to get a proper listen in, but it did not disappoint. This whole project feels like smooth talking, like it's trying to lure you into its bizarre world. It's so oddly comforting even at its most insane. Additionally, all the features give so much character and texture to the already mesmerizing charm poured in ... read more

Album Review #73
Goddamn this album fucks. It genuinely feels like perfect, needle on a fingertip-like balancing between this very clean, sensual elegance and layered, syrup-like UK grime. It feels heavy, sinking and viscous through the whole runtime yet its so easy to latch onto.

Favourite Songs: Risingson, Teardrop, Inertia Creeps

Album Review #72
Very cold and atmospheric, and uhhh trippy I guess? Feels kinda redundant to say that with the genre and all. Felt a bit repetitive at times. Lots of lovely ideas, but the age of it is really showing. I mean I wasn't expecting wonders from something that released in 1994, but still it was very noticeable. I'd have to be in a very specific mood to return to this project.

Favourite Songs: It Could Be Sweet, Roads, Glory Box

Album Review #71
Feels less like a sequel to AGC and a huge DLC instead. I don't really mind though when the music itself is this hard. It's also interesting how it falls into this recent trend of rage music becoming less about explosive energy and more about this trance-like drilling of the sound into the brain of the listener. Production as always ridiculously on point.

Favourite Songs: Blakk Rokkstar, LiveLeak, Diamonds

Album Review #70
Really awesome and fun listen, I can definitely see why people like it so much. Very digestible at the 20 minute runtime. I enjoyed the way the somewhat melancholic vocal sounded with the energetic tone of the instrumentation

Favourite Songs: Aoi, Koi, Daidaiiro No Hi, She is inside, He is outside, Nan Nan

Album Review #69
One thing I can say for certain about this project is that it is cohesive, it creates a distinct and easily recognizable sound profile. Keyword here being profile, and what I mean by that is that I feel like I can say "Wow! This is a Revengeseekerz song!" that doesn't help stop certain tracks from feeling derivative. One example being JRJRJR, but the thing about JRJRJR is that that song is a victim of a much larger issue I don't wanna delve into right now ... read more

Album Review #68
Before star dropped I thought that 2hollis had more of his own sound to explore, and this project is exactly that. Instead of outlandish drops and really flashy segments the project strives to create a steady pulse, reminiscent of a heartbeat. I think that's a wonderful continuation of what was established on boy. Speaking about boy, while I think I prefer the highlights of his previous effort, star shines with it's consistency.

Favourite Songs: tell me, burn, ... read more

Album Review #67
Super fun and bouncy, exactly what you would expect from YT but polished to the highest degree. Loved the transitions and short cut ins, really helps to show the attention to detail on the project

Favourite Songs: Diamonds, Black & Tan, Prada or Celine

Album Review #66
Deko has been trying to evolve his sound for a while now and this is his best effort yet. He shows off the strength of being the rapper, producer, and creative director of a whole project at the same time, even though Eclipse's best quality is very easily it's production since I still find Deko's rapping to be somewhat lacking compared to everything else. I hope we get to hear him produce for others in the near future. This is also probably his most coherent ... read more

Album Review #65
Carti returns to his roots in style, with a melting pot of a little bit of everything of what made him the artist he is today. The definition of music, the culmination of his body of work so far. In the end, everything, all of it, the entire past decade lead to MUSIC. It was a journey and I loved it so much. See y'all in 2030

Favourite Songs: this a special occasion so fuck it its all of em

Album Review #64
An important release in Future's catalogue and an overall great trap project. Very consistent, but held back by being a bit too one note.

Favourite Songs: I Serve the Base, Stick Talk, Rich $ex

Album Review #63
The project first enchants you with the groove of a lifetime, before letting you soak in the story and message it's trying to tell you. A warm, glowing world of sound.

Favourite Songs: Sun, I Rise, Dedicated to Tar Feather, Beloved! Paradise! Jazz?!