Happy pride month and RIP Klaus, you would have loved the rise & fall of a midwest princess

I came across this album completely by chance, and it was an amazing surprise.
It's packed with ideas, and from all kinds of directions. Since i don't understand a word of Arabic, i can't really speak to the lyrics, but both the performance and the production really stood out to me (it's very hybrid, blending traditional instruments with synth textures on Widah for example, which feels surprisingly forward-thinking for a 1988 album).
Special mention to "Nabn El ... read more

70s jazz fusion in all its radiance.
The album is a pleasure to listen to from start to finisg. The tracks stretch out gracefully without ever dragging or losing your attention. There's maybe a slight dip around Captain Marvel, where it feels like the ideas start to thin out, but 500 Miles High pick things right back up.
Spain is of course the centerpiece of the album.

Few albums are this personal and vulnerable. Every single line feels like an open-hearted confession.

It took me a long time to truly appreciate this record for what it is. I used to find it less accessible than Blue, and it’s only in the last few years that I’ve managed to fully connect with its intimate, raw lyrics. It's an absolute masterpiece.

Bedtime Stories, long considered the ugly duckling, the ink stain on Madonna’s otherwise pristine 1990s run, is now being gradually reappraised year after year.
What’s paradoxical about this album, often framed as a somewhat embarrassed step back from the provocations of the LAP and Erotica eras and their surrounding controversies, is that it also stands as one of her most intimate and personal records lyrically. In fact, what is sometimes described as her most sonically impersonal ... read more

Barely an 80 score and only a modest spot in the top-100 albums of 1991 for Dangerous on aoty. I have to admit, that genuinely surprises me, because to my ears Dangerous is by far the most accomplished, personal, inventive, and fully realized record in MJ's career.
With Dangerous, Jackson steps into the 1990s with a clear set of new intentions. Quincy Jones is no longer at the helm, his influence now firmly tied to the legacy of the 1980s, and Jackson moves away from the "string of ... read more

It’s always difficult to put a score on a Michael Jackson album, since his discography exists in a league of its own. With that in mind, my rating and comments on Bad should be understood in comparison to the rest of his work.
Bad is a defining classic of the late 1980s, an album that hardly needs an introduction. Packed with songs that remain universally recognized almost 40 years after its release, its main flaw, to me, lies in its overall inconsistency, particularly among the ... read more

Summer 2018. You’ve just turned 12, the World Cup is in full swing (even if Brazil gets knocked out by Belgium in the quarterfinals), and as a devoted Lana Del Rey fan, you’re still playing Lust for Life on repeat a year after its release. Then one day, somewhere in the depths of YouTube recommendations, you stumble across a track that isn’t even on her Spotify catalog : "Summer Wine".
It feels like a revelation, the height of musical sensuality. Curious, you look ... read more

A somewhat inconsistent album overall. The first half is full of strong ideas and feels more inventive, but things start to drag with “Tribeca,” a rather chaotic track that’s almost hard to sit through. From there, the middle section loses momentum until the final two songs manage to bring things back on track.The mixing also comes across as a bit unpolished.

So 2026 will mark the first return of India-mania spirituality since the early 2000s. And I’m here for it.

So it’s the same as usual. It starts off gently. Then a choir comes in to handle the backing vocals. Then the instrumental builds up. Then Bruno starts belting over the final chorus. Then there’s a guitar solo. Then it ends and the whole thing starts again nine times.

It’s not bad: the vocal production is flawless, most of the instrumentals are polished, and the Latin influences add some texture to the album. But that’s about it. You take one formula and repeat it nine ... read more

talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, shit on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it

On first listens the album feels far less cohesive than his debut, even though a few tracks stand out. Some lines are especially awkward and completely break the atmosphere the album tries to build, particularly on $ex Appeal. Kendrick's presence is unfortunately quite underwhelming and doesn't leave much of an impression.

an enjoyable record overall even if it never reaches the level of something truly interesting.

At times the album struggles to find its footing. You can really feel the weight of expectations hanging over this follow-up to brat, along with a clear ambition to once again craft something structurally bold, a record that sits somewhere between romantic spoken-word confessionals and blown-out ultra-saturated production. But the execution doesn’t always land: it can feel either cluttered and cacophonous or oddly flat and forgettable.

That said, the album does have genuine strengths. It ... read more

First time listening to a Puma Blue album. I found the first half bolder in terms of production and far more immersive. The record aims to plunge the listener into a vast enveloping oceanic soundscape, but it doesn’t quite live up to that ambition from start to finish. The closing track felt a bit off and the lyrics clashed oddly with the delicate atmosphere built throughout the rest of the album.

A jazz-funk classic that i only discovered about a month ago and haven’t been able to put down since. The sound perfectly matches the album cover and title: airy, ethereal instrumentals, almost dreamlike lyrics (just My Imagination), and an overall feeling of floating through space. Few albums manage to carry me away so effortlessly from the very first note.
So far, my biggest musical discovery of the year.

So i'm starting my exploration of Hancock’s discography with the album that’s often described as his most upbeat and closest to the jazz-funk sound of the early 70s.

An enjoyable FL overall but it felt a bit uneven at times. Wiggle Waggle is easily the funkiest and most energetic track on the record and it really stands out compared to the almost "smooth" and laid-back mood of the rest of the album (at least up to Fat Albert Rotunda). Some tracks go in a more ... read more

I really got caught up in the excitement and the show was truly high quality. Still, there were a few things that kept me from fully enjoying this halftime show : first, about the political message. I found it quite light and not very bold. Of course, this is the Super Bowl halftime show not a political rally, but the 2020 halftime show was clearly more political. JLO even had her daughter sing inside a kind of cage directly referring to the children detained by ICE during Trump’s 1st ... read more

39 intro randomly being one of the best songs of the decade

The concept of a russian jew who fled deportation as a teenager and spent his life hating his own body because of antisemitic propaganda making a humorous concept album about the Nazis deserves a score above 90 on its own

Fav tracks : J'entends des voix off, Est-ce est-ce si bon ?, SS in Uruguay