The ambient archdukes return!

💫 Best Track: Friend of a Friend
✅ Favorite Tracks: Teleharmonic, Bending Hectic
❌ Least Favorite Track: Wall of Eyes

Is it crazy to prefer "A Light for Attracting Attention"? In all honesty, I do really enjoy this album on its own, but it's super hard to separate it from its predecessor, especially when I listened to it first. When I first heard this album in 2024, the chilling atmosphere really did it for me, but I felt like that was the ... read more

Some of Conductor Williams' best stuff on the first half, but that doesn't even matter. Rome Streetz could make a rudimentary beat sound like Mozart.

✅ Favorite Tracks: Runny Nose, Rule 4080, Died 1000 Times
❌ Least Favorite Track: Electric Slide

The way he effortlessly flows and combines insanely sharp lyricism with crazy quotables shows me time and time again that this guy is not to be fucked with. Who tf is saying 'Got bitches like a sorority... First ho I had down, met ... read more

In the words of Muney Capri himself, it's MUD SZN !

I discovered Muney Capri in February of 2025 with his single "Weird" coming up in my TikTok recommended feed. Since then I have exchanged a few DMs with the kid and he seems like a pretty genuine guy. What I get most from Muney Capri though is that he's constantly trying to create a cool experience for his fans. During the rollout of this album, the promotional videos were super high quality and he put a TON of effort into ... read more

I wrote this review a little less than a year ago (Winter 2024) and just kept it in the notes app, but I stumbled across it the other day and thought that maybe I should post it

This was before it was cool to hate Doechii btw

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About a month ago, I was sitting in my math class in a high school that’s, for the most part, entirely white. We were doing group work and the girl sitting next to me suddenly said “turn a __ ... read more

This is a great album, but I don't know if I can forgive Che for not showing up to the NYC pop up...

✅ Favorite Tracks: LIP FILLER, HOOD FAMOUS, MARCELINE, DIOR LEOPARD, MANNEQUIN, MDMA, BA$$
❌ Least Favorite Tracks: ON FLEEK, DIE YOUNG, NEVER TOO YOUNG TO DIE

I first heard of Che last year when I listened to Sayso Says for the first time. It was really one of the first Rage albums I resonated with to a huge extent. Upon my first listens to A Great Chaos or Snotty World, I ... read more

Album was so hard I stopped it halfway through to drive to an empty parking lot and do donuts

✅ Favorite Tracks: Chains & Whips, POV, Ace Trumpets, MTBTTF, FICO
❌ Least Favorite Tracks: All Things Considered, Let God Sort Em Out/Chandeliers

My mom was a bit curious why I had to take the car out for a spin at roughly 12:15 AM, but I said "I can't listen to this delectable album on my airpods ma" and she understood.

I do feel like there is some element of age here. The ... read more

Wait I didn't catch that, who is he again?

This is high quality cloud rap, but, apart from some standout tracks, nothing on this truly blows me away to another dimension. It's simply above average, but I'm not coming back to too many songs other than OBVIOUS instant classics like Back Home or Freewave Freestyle 4. Nevertheless, the more Lucki I listen to, the more I "get" his appeal.

My favorite song is most definitely Freewave Freestyle 4, which sort of stands out from the rest of these songs due to its repetitive ... read more

Considering how this album was made, I’m just surprised it flows as smoothly as it does

✅ Favorite Tracks: SPITFIRE, ANDY, GULAB XX, REDLINE DASH, BIGGY BAP, BABY ROYAL, G2G, VOLTAGE
❌ Least Favorite Tracks: ANIMALS BEAT, BOOSTER

What exactly I mean by that is this is the product of many years of experimentation and extreme hard work. Okay so ypically, it's hard to make albums flow well, ANY album. I would think even more that THIS project would have trouble with that because ... read more

You're never gonna find me jamming out to Lil Mabu but this isn’t bad

I did not hear ONE SINGLE LYRIC but the music was still fire regardless

✅ Favorite Tracks: Myth, Float, Basin, Spill
❌ Least Favorite Track: N/A

Either the music is way too loud for me to hear what he's saying or he's mumbling so quietly that it's almost as if he doesn't even want me to hear him. On average, I could make out a total of around 5 words from each song. That doesn't even matter, though, because the point of this music is less the words and more the ... read more

Very weird that Carti kept shouting out Sia throughout the album...

✅ Favorite Tracks: EVIL J0RDAN, RATHER LIE, FINE SHIT, JUMPIN, LIKE WEEZY, HBA
❌ Least Favorite Track: TRIM

What we have here is not at all a "rage" album. There are no issues with that necessarily, but it is not really keeping to what it was sort of advertised as. It's oftentimes lighthearted, finding itself leaning far more into pop appeal than anything else. For much of the album, I thought I was ... read more

How can you love me if you leave me behind?

✅ Favorite Tracks: One Wish, Dream Girl, Love Me Not, Days
❌ Least Favorite Track: Candy

To be completely honest, this took two listens to actually make sense. The first listen was tiring, just so boring and I couldn't get into any of her melodies. However, I now understand after a relisten that this is soul with a SERIOUS focus on solid hooks to the point where this is basically an R&B/Pop crossover. More than half of each of the ... read more

"Yessss Omar Apollo is on a Malcolm Todd song!" I said excitedly before skipping over his part

Rebecca Black's gravitating between Lady Gaga and female The Weeknd, but I (TRUST!) that she's got the hang of it

✅ Favorite Tracks: Salvation, TRUST!, Tears In My Pocket
❌ Least Favorite Track: Sugar Water Cyanide

I write very negative-seeming reviews for some albums I rate positively (like this one), so just stick with me. If you frequently read my reviews, then you know exactly what I'm talking about. The thing is that I like ripping into albums that I feel like had a ... read more

The great production value and the high effort displayed makes me ignore Tate's occasional (ok fine -- FREQUENT) corniness

✅ Favorite Tracks: Miss possessive, Dear god, Sports car
❌ Least Favorite Tracks: Means I care, Greenlight

This album is incredibly well polished. It seems like it is the fruit of much labor in that I feel as though nothing was left unturned and Tate McRae made a completely finished, well tailored product. That goes a long way nowadays, with artists caring less ... read more

Even though half of the songs sound like Psycho Killer remakes, the commentary on society and the talent of David Byrne kept me engaged through the whole listen.

✅ Favorite Tracks: Happy Day, Who Is It?, The Book I Read, Psycho Killer, Pulled Up
❌ Least Favorite Track: Tentative Decisions

Frequently while listening to this, I'd say "Ohhhh so THAT'S where Teezo Touchdown got that from" and I know that may seem like a very uncultured thing to say... because it is! I ... read more

"And I will write what I've seen, will you read what I write?"

Rest in peace, Ryan Karazija. This is my first Low Roar album and I put it on this morning because I wanted something soft and gorgeous. This was definitely the latter, but it was a lot heavier than I thought coming into it. A lot of the themes feel melancholy rather than hopeful for the future, and I found that aspect really compelling. The times I enjoyed this the most were when Ryan utilized sounds not typical to ... read more

While I feel like this album didn't maximize on its full potential, it's still a great addition to Westside Gunn's catalogue

✅ Favorite Tracks: 055, GUMBO YAYA, BURY ME WITH A STOVE, OUTLANDER
❌ Least Favorite Track: ADAM PAGE

What I sort of mean by that is that there was just simply not enough variety in the features, and the beats could've been built on so much more but it feels like work stopped 4/5ths of the way through on them. On some of the hyped up tracks, Gunn ... read more

Full of young indie awkwardness and passionate vocals, this is an album to be remembered.

✅ Favorite Tracks: Memory, So, Mary, Change, Sarah
❌ Least Favorite Track: Whale

Alex G accomplishes something here that I feel hasn't been recognized nearly enough. Of course, this album has minor critical acclaim, but we should really be examining it more. I mean, some of this content is remarkably deep. So, on this album, Alex G of course unleashes his immaturity, but the ironic part is that, ... read more