So "Some Rap Songs" is a collection of 15 really short tracks spanning 15 minutes by Earl Sweatshirt, creator of "solace". The tracks themselves flow more like one, and they're so short that that's good. Now. The best parts of this album. The derelict, downtone production, and the lyrics. God, the lyrics. On "solace" the lyrics were the best part and that continues here, Earl is an amazing poet. His lyrics are haunting in some tracks, beautiful on others, ... read more

I'm the biggest [fish]

So this album opens rather interestingly. "Crabs in a Bucket" has a glitchy, high pitched, singsong beat between the rapping bits; when Staples is rapping it's mostly percussion with an occasional interjection from the sampled vocalist. Vince Staples sounds excellent rapping here, and after he finishes his verses there's a sampled bit that sounds kind of like electronic house, a little bit, which I thought was cool. "Big Fish"... is a ... read more

okay okay so this ISN'T that weeknd album with blinding lights on it

"My luck ain't been this fucked up
Since they took out my loved one
I called my granny just tell her that I loved her
It's been a minute since I hugged her"

Something about this album pulled me in. The stories about it changing lives. The album cover. The rating. Simply the idea of it was so intriguing to me, and so here I am. This album is bleak. Dismal. Think a recessive, low-lying ... read more

Album Trade Week 10: @Rolymongone

Let's just get right into it. I'm not a big fan of the beat on "DoNotDisturb", it's a little bit too sandpapery and rough for my ears, Bill's voice is deep as hell like usual and, as usual, it doesn't really work for me outside of his newest. Something about that album's just different for me. This song is cool, though, it's jazzy and has some nice flows, there's some features that aren't credited (Or ... read more

Listening to this album is like drinking warm water.

EDIT: 62 --> 48:

Listening to this album is like drinking warm tap water from a public bathroom.

Damn, this album's got some hella fine production for 2002.

Why question a life only borrowed?

So this is some weird, jazzy, industrial experimental hip-hop that has so many intriguing elements to it that I can hardly count. Aggressive rapping, intense tonal shifts in the beats, oh, god, the beats, they're so sublime. The opener, "Spiritual Healing" sets the tone with a soft, jazzy opening and a burst into a harsh, loud industrial bit with violent bars and sharp ... read more

Album Trade Week 10: @thekitchenfloor

EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED

More Bob Dylan. After enjoying the first album I listened to from him, Highway 61 Revisited, I'm going into this album with high expectations. It opens with a kind of big bandy, jazzy track in "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35", this sounds kind of like a marching song, it feels like it could be chanted really easily by a large group of people, and there's the sound of a raucous crowd cheering Dylan and ... read more

J.T. Hiskey Discog Dive, Episode 3: The Hiskey Administration

"Yo this is your president, bro, President Hiskey."
"...President Hiskey?"

Bro what do you mean this album said "Flows like my piss stream" ??????

Hiskey farts and calls it music again. The intro is stupid, cringy, but... got a laugh out of me. "Catching Dreams" has a somewhat competent beat, it's not the worst beat I've ever heard, the rapping is stupid but not disgusting like ... read more

"Rev Charles Lutwidge Dawson [Better known as Lewis Carroll] (1832-1898), a British mathematician, wrote about his experiments with hallucinogenic drugs, recording his experiences on some pages tipped into a single copy of the first edition of his treatise on geometry, Euclid and His Modern Rivals, a copy now thought to be in the possession of a private collector in Luxembourg.

"Dodgson reported that, while reading the book Al Aaraaf during his studies at Christ Church in Oxford, he ... read more

Byler, The Creator

CAN I GET A KISS
AND CAN YOU MAKE IT LAST FOREVER
I SAID I'M BOUT TO GO TO WAR

Tyler is a pretty cool rapper. He has awesome beats, amazing flows, creative ideas with his music, and is a genuine, vulnerable creator. I don't have the energy to write an actual review right now, but I did really enjoy this album. Tyler certainly created.

Foreword - 10/10
Where This Flower Blooms -
Sometimes... - N/A
See You Again - 10/10
Who Dat Boy - 10/10
Pothole - 9/10
Garden ... read more

domer

An... actually pretty funny and somewhat decent plunderphonics / sound collage album, I guess. Didn't think I would come out of this having both laughed and been a little, kind of a tad bit impressed by the production. Truly one of this site's biggest mysteries.
Album gets funny number out of 100. You're welcome.

allmusic giving 100s to fucking anything istg

EDIT; ONE DAY LATER:

You know what, I'm actually gonna listen to it.

Charlotte Mundy's "Semmelweis" is an album. I have never heard of this album. Apparently, Jane Harrison is the only person on God's great earth who knows about this album and they gave it 100, so I'm gonna listen to it. It starts off with a song called "What is the Day", which is 5 minutes of a cappela singing that sounds more like ... read more

what the shit is this

A Mad Quest To Kill God: Chapter 2

"I am tired
I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears"

I lay on my bed. To Pimp A Butterfly finished, I await the little, cosmic birdie to flutter down towards my window to tell me what to seek next: will it be Stevie Wonder? Will it be more Kendrick? Jesus and God forbid, will it be Drake? Will it be the first Beatles album, will it be, perhaps, something even older? I ... read more

Ok, Bill. Guess you got game after all. Keep it up, kid.

"VIDEO2" is hazy, swirling, electronic, glitchy, and well produced. "CODEINE" has a sick-ass beat and some really good rapping from Bill, whose rapping has never really been my favorite in terms of lyrics and flow, and voice, for that matter, but he somehow fixed that here. Somehow. Everything I hated about Bill is gone here. "KIKAIDER" has a jazzy, smooth saxophone with some warbling synths instead of a ... read more

Thanks so much for 40 followers, guys! It means so much to me. And to celebrate this amazing achievement, I'm listening to.. uh.. whatever the hell this is! Truth be told, I have never heard of this album before 30 seconds ago. I was intrigued by the "Exotica" genre and decided that for my 40 follower special I would listen to something weird i never would have thought to listen to for any reason ever. Isn't that fun? So this album opens with "Tokio Rush", a really ... read more

Revisit to Album Trade Week 2: @thekitchenfloor

It's probably good I'll relisten at some point

I ain't paying no fucking taxes wtf is this

So this album is pretty cool. It's some hardcore jazzy punk prog with a lot of... interesting screamy vocals that I think were extremely overdone and tastelessly produced. There's a lot of skill here but the screaming just doesn't really do it for me, it's sort of fun but I just don't like how they made it sound, really. There are a lot of super cool musical moments here, though, like on the opener, "The Carriage ... read more

Oh lord, I'm in for a hell of a time, aren't I.

So this album scares me. I've known about it for a minute, and every aspect of it seems as though Satan got ahold of a Swans album and sewed it with human sinew into a fucking kite and flew that during a thunderstorm. Going into this album I'm shivering in my timbers, I'm quaking in my boots, my teeth are chattering and I'm shitting my pants, as Lingua hauntedly sings through the first NINE MINUTE TRACK I'm ... read more

HELP GET MY GOAT OFF THE STREETS

Jesus Christ, so much good rap is coming out this year. This shit goes HARD. Gao is rapping his ass off over some of the loudest, craziest beats I've heard since Exmilitary, this mixtape is batshit, energetic, hard as hell, and has Gao's signature frantic, sludge covered mixing that just feels so good to listen to. Each track is different while still remaining in the swirling tar pit that Gao's music resides in, I just adore this sound so much. ... read more