Em, you're too old for this man.
While most of this album is a complete snooze fest, the occasional interesting Eminem verses are ruined by him trying to rage-bait that one Millenial lady on TikTok's idea of Gen Zers.
Favourite track: Fuel
Dude had SAMPHA AND BON IVER ON ONE SONG, AND THEY HAD A TOTAL OF LIKE 15 SECONDS OF ESSENTIALLY SPOKEN WORD, ACTUALLY FUCK YOU.
Top three favourite tracks: TELEKINESIS, I KNOW?, LOST FOREVER
Least favourite track: K-POP
There's definitely flashes of greatness (mostly coming from the instrumentals), but the vocals quickly become pretty annoying, and despite only being ~20 minutes long, the tracklist could do without half the songs.
Top three favourite tracks: 800db cloud, xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx, gec 2 Ü
Interesting tracks: ringtone, 745 sticky
Skips: stupid horse, gecgecgec, hand crushed by a mallet, money machine, I Need Help Immediately
Still Woozy and Bobbing reunion on one of the best albums of the year. I can't believe my ears.
Top three favourite tracks: Baby, Again, All Your Life
Shoutout to the dude on r/Classical Music that reccomended this.
Favourite suite: Finale
Album aging poorly be damned, Chester can write a hook.
Favourite track: Papercut
Denzel's most mature and refined work to date. Also, "Run the jewels, because I kill the mic(ke) on any (E)LP" is one of the best name drops ever.
Top four favourite tracks: Zatoichi, The Ills, Walkin, Sanjuro
Least favourite track: John Wayne
The last two tracks are absolutely stellar, but nothing else here really lives up to them.
Top three favourite tracks: VENGEANCE, 13 M T, Z1RENZ
WOW. It is so great to see the must hear back on a Lupe album.
Lu delivers some unsuprisingly stellar verses on every track while being backed by similarily stellar production. The kick drum is especially punchy, like damnn. If he got to choose more beats on some of his Atlantic records, I do think he would start being a consensus top 10 rapper amongst way more people. Genuinely, ever since Lupe's been fully independent, he hasn't dropped an under 9/10 album, and Wave, DMIZ, and ... read more
Not sure how this album managed to be inconsistent, but there's genuinely a good deal of tracks I actually like. The problem with this album is that the bad songs are BAAAD.
Top three favourite tracks: I Don't Want To Let You Go, Put Me Back Together, Let It All Hang Out
Least favourite track: Love Is the Answer
This is my favourite TDE project, but it could be a 100 with better production. Like imagine Ab-Soul on some really soul/funk/jazz-inspired beats (basically TPAB LOL).
Anyway, the reason I think this record is so strong is mostly because of Ab-Soul's charisma. He portrays this really braggadocious, arrogant, and overbearing persona throughout most of the tracklist while covering some deep topics and conspiracy theories. He said it best himself on Track Two; he's Ab-Soul, the abstract ... read more
This is such a weird deluxe, man. There's literally no consistency between the tracks (quality-wise, they all fit the main tracklist's sound).
I Love the USA is just okay, Jacked Up Remix is aboslute trash and completely ruins the best non-deluxe White track, Friend of a Friend might be my favourite Weezer song ever, Fake Smiles and Nervous Laughter is actually really good, and Prom Night is pretty good but nothing too spectacular.
Listening to this at 2-3 am with some friends on a Discord call and talking about potato chips, F1, and really inappropriate would you rather questions while playing some crappy Roblox simulator about forklifts is a real ethereal experience.
Okay, so since summer started yesterday, now's probably the right time to review this. So White Album is Weezer's take on a Beach Boys-style summer album, and from what I've seen, it's usually placed right behind Blue and Pinkerton by most people. And yeah, it makes sense; it's a real solid return from a band that hadn't been relevant since the 90s (even if EWBAE is their actual return, IMO).
White doesn't really stray away from what made Weezer's ... read more
The ~15 seconds of Ty vocals saves it from getting a 10.
Edit: Pretty sure Ye's not retiring, but if he actually follows through on the texts, a Rich The Kid feature with Peso Pluma is a digusting way to go out for the man that made The College Dropout.
Re-edit: Fuck this dude
If I were to describe this album in one word, it'd be "cleansing."
Raveena's vocals are silky smooth throughout and the production is so lush. It's an extremely cathartic listen. I genuinely felt disappointed when it ended so soon.
Top three favourite tracks: Lose My Focus, Water, Junebug