Happy New Years! Alongside my resolutions requiring I read at least ten pages of a book every day, participate in dry January, and overthrow the king of Denmark- that second one is gonna be a tall order; I drank a non-alcoholic Heineken, and I shit you not, I've had suicidal episodes that were less depressing- I'm also planning on taking album reviews seriously again. Speaking of catching up on my reading, I read Liz Pelly's PHENOMINALLY well researched 'Mood Machine' ... read more
If she ever stops using that Karen O "Heads Will Roll" sample, I'm going to assume the real Jane has been kidnapped and an imposter released the album in her place for some nefarious gain.
DRAKE FUCKING WHO???
Genesis Owusu is on the best album run of the 2020s, and I'm struggling to even think of who belongs in second place. This dude just cannot be stopped. While there are stylistic and structural touchstones to his work that I've come to expect, I have this tendency to go into his albums thinking "I don't know WHAT this is gonna be about". I think that's on purpose; it seems that Genesis aims to be the kind of artist that cannot be put into a ... read more
British Slint is pretty decent until about halfway through, whereupon British Slint becomes fucking amazing out of nowhere. "Up The Ante(lope)" is genuinely amazing. Really pumped to see where these dudes take this project. If I was somehow horrifically reincarnated into a chain smoking white teenager in Manchester, a silver lining is that maybe I'd get to see these dudes live. Because they seem like they'd put on a really passionate show.
It's unbelievably tough that even in this wildly unfinished state, the legendary one-two punch of "Supervillain Theme"+"All Caps" is retained. Madlib knew he was on some shit with that one.




