Randomly remembered all the lyrics to the opener of Hollywood's bleeding recently and how brilliant it is of a statement it is against celebrity culture and Hollywood. I really love how it reads like a poem and the delivery, the transition... goosebumps.

I know this Posty album better than anything else he's ever made. There's a lot of interesting songs / styles that largely deserved pursuing in separate projects but honestly I was so disappointed when I realised this ... read more

As you progress through it, it becomes clear that B&b is quite conceptually empty and 'background party' sounding, lyrically it doesn't really provide much more than some lame story about clubbing, girls and substances. Hey, the production is absolutely up for the job of booming party soundtrack, but listening to it with any care and attention is consequently not very rewarding: A perfect example is 'Takin' shots'. Why is this song here? What you get in return ... read more

I mean, I truly do not understand the obsession Vampire Weekend has over their song "2021". To me it's a really annoying song and I got next to nothing out of it.

Then there's 4042, which manages to take this annoying flop and flip it into an extremely interesting LP in the clothes of an EP.

I usually don't fare well with prog rock and especially not prog rock, I usually feel very frustrated with the time wastage it presents. I've been sat outside in a field, a ... read more

The only part of the 2024 presidential election that made any sense

twerking on my neighbours vauxhall corsa

I must have listened to this album hundreds of times and yet after all this while it's been really hard to articulate exactly how I feel about it, because I feel close to nothing. Its strengths and weaknesses compliment themselves so well that the whole album is a perfect ambivalence.

On one hand, Post Malone does try to diversify his songs from the mainstream of the contemporary trap and as a result it makes Stoney probably one of the most accessible Trap-adjacent albums I've ... read more

I must have listened to this album hundreds of times and yet after all this while it's been really hard to articulate exactly how I feel about it, because I feel close to nothing. Its strengths and weaknesses compliment themselves so well that the whole album is a perfect ambivalence.

On one hand, Post Malone does try to diversify his songs from the mainstream of the contemporary trap and as a result it makes Stoney probably one of the most accessible Trap-adjacent albums I've ... read more

This is beautiful, ambitious, full of emotions and it all expresses itself beautifully through instruments, but whenever anything is said verbally it is appreciated.

I haven't felt this way as a result of music since Gotye's albums.

Ahh I see the hype for Chance the Rapper here now. I like the messages and optimism in Acidrap, with some catchy choruses and sweet singing performances but the adlibs get really annoying after a while and the production is still kinda not there. Not to mention that after "Favourite song" the quality really jumps off a building and it gets kinda unlistenable, sorry y'all :(

A perfect specimen of City pop but with some ballads that wear on a little bit on the record pacing, even if they are performed beautifully.

Back when my Japanese was just about strong enough to comfortably understand this album.. 😔

It is the soundtrack of a heavy heart, lined with a desparate longing to feel human again, experience every day things the way those around you do: how to relate to your friends? How to relate to a lover or go about life again without someone that mattered to you?

There is a depressively nostalgic tone to the whole album. Particularly in the title track or the gorgeous motif strings that remind me very much of music in the old Zelda games I would play on my DS lite and the way it made me feel. ... read more

If MBDTF is Kanye's complete transition into villainy, "Yeezus" is the cold, empty kingdom he has created consuming him, degrading his mind - I feel it through his shouting, the kinda unwarranted paranoia he displays in a lot of the songs (as a byproduct of his god complex) as well as the beautiful but eerie singing he displays across the thing.

It's all kinda chilly and chaotic, countless times I got goosebumps while listening and as much as I am reluctant to say this bc ... read more

Yeah 0 duds, INCREDIBLE production, charming singing, good pace - this is the perfect Kanye record and yet there's not really any rapping. Pinocchio story is also just the chef's kiss perfection to end this album. This is the villain arc - our heroic figure has been hurt.... and he may not come back from it quite the same.

Kanye West has entered his supervillain era. He's become our evil partying overlord and has completed his villain arc after overcoming heartbreak.

It really is that good most of the time but like it seems always, there are duds that the album would've been much better without.. namely "So Appalled" which just has a really crappy chorus and not much foundation to exist on, also "Devil in a new dress", the sample sounds like a baby crying and topically is handled so ... read more

Firstly, this was a strange experience. I can really begin hearing in this one the inspirations that so many artists further derived from these songs..

I think in an overall, sum-of-their-parts perspective I didn't enjoy this quite as much as I did "College Dropout", and there's a few reasons for this:

Firstly, there just isn't as consistent an atmosphere in Late Registration. Each song explores itself much more and as such they don't feel as unified in an album ... read more

Kanye's debut album, with playful and honest personality through witty lyrics and his lively and soulful, revolutionary production (with the now-ubiquitous chopped vocals and perfectly piercing drums) is a record so confident in its delivery by the beginning of the second track you know you are listening to a classic piece.

It flexes effortlessly between serious and light themes, like desperately trying to rediscover religion in "Jesus Walks", facing mortality in "Through ... read more

Ah... a sequel... not even Joyner himself in his own skits is sure why he made this..

The adlibs are awful. The skits are worse. Writing feels almost made up on the spot, at this point, trying to make up for things Joyner must feel he didn't do right on the first *ejem* instalment of the Attion Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Saga. For example, in the previous ADHD, the title didn't feel to have any relevance to anything. Actually the whole album has no relevance inside itself or ... read more

TLDR, slightly above Mediocre entirely thanks to Logic's verse and "I lied"

Middle schooler me thought "Devil's work" was so tuff I swear

I like how Joyner Lucas sounds, his way of bringing together that late 2010s mainstream rap sound is derivative but also makes him serve as a 'state of the game'. He has indeed got this little thing the youth may refer to as "flow"... the problem is, he has no idea what exactly he wants to say with his ... read more

"Kala" is one of those albums where one song (Paper Planes) is so prolific it completely outgrows the mold it was born in and so feels like a different experience to the whole album. But.. the rest of the album is a fun vibe and a wider exploration of this awesome sound.

As another user already said "MIA was the Björk of hiphop" which... yeah. It's a great nod to immigrants in the UK (representttttt!) and a very fun listen with its international palette. I can ... read more

This definitely expands on Pale machine as a bundle of 2 excellent songs, you can tell that the Bo En sound is starting to shift here into something more jazzy (that despite the many singles following this with a similar style was never fully developed on 😔), and they take a much more positive tone than the album they sprouted from - where Title Track views life as an empty monotony and "My Time" literally is just giving up, "Money Won't Pay" is optimistic about the ... read more