Greatest album of all time? Let's not talk about that right now, instead picture a 70s rock band - previous album became a HUGE success and they're rich, famous and...Completely miserable? "Wish You Were Here" is an album about being there physically, but mentally on another planet.
"Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar" treat the music industry like a corporate horror movie. The line - "By the way, which one's Pink?" roasts the ... read more
Clocking in at over 68 minutes across 18 tracks, it’s supposed to be his "supervillain era" statement. Instead, it plays like a bloated, deeply insecure defense brief wrapped in high-gloss production.
For an album called ICEMAN, Drake sounds incredibly thin-skinned, still visibly bleeding from the Kendrick feud. He attempts to brush it off by attacking his peers' streaming numbers and legacy. The old "I'm richer than you" defense mechanism feels exhausted ... read more
In the Bible, the "Land of Milk and Honey" is a place of abundance and peace. For Frank, it’s a hallucination - a golden memory of a childhood before the school fire, or a love that has turned to ash. It argues that beauty is the most painful thing to look at when you are unhappy.
While "Blues Run the Game" is the famous anthem of the record, "Milk and Honey" is its spiritual center.
His best song in my opinion, it is a song of heavy contrast - the ... read more
Produced by Paul Simon in a three-hour session, it's the only album Jackson C. Frank ever released. He was so shy he insisted on being shielded by screens so engineers couldn't see him while he played. The result is the most haunted and influential record of the 60s. Masterclass in "Blue-music" that's been covered by everyone from Nick Drake to Laura Marling.
Frank survived a horrific school fire as a child that killed most of his classmates and left him physically ... read more
North isn't trying to hide her fame, she’s weaponizing it - in a world where everything is recorded and everyone is watching, the only power you have is to be louder and weirder than the noise.
North, who's 12 (but looks much older) reportedly produced the entire project herself, I mean it shows but it's actually kinda impressive. Full of heavy synths, high-pitched vocaloids, and jagged nu-metal guitar riffs - very advanced, something that she definitely should be praised ... read more
Though it serves as the finale to "Pastel Blues", Sinnerman has it's own atmosphere. Originally an African-American traditional spiritual, Nina took a song usually performed in church and transformed it into a 10-minute avant-garde masterpiece. A frantic, rhythmic chase where the protagonist tries to hide from divine judgment.
The track is built on an relentless, driving piano riff and drum beat that mimics the sound of a heart racing or feet hitting the pavement. It never lets ... read more