Author: Kevin “Pigeon” Montes
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When looking back at Taylor Swift’s career and this current run of rerecorded albums, much has changed. She’s grown, becoming a better writer and trying new styles. But when it comes to those original three albums, post-self-titled debut, they don’t carry the youth spirit deriving from the giggles, laughs, and joyful spoken moments like that…
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Comparatively more sonically upbeat than her debut album, Good At Falling, but still retaining some of the depth and familiarity one has gotten used to in her writing, The Japanese House’s – Real Name: Amber Mary Bain – new album, In The End It Always Does continues to stride with consistency. Mirroring the title of…
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It’s not often new artists emerge, where one’s curiosity from its album cover becomes something worth remembering. That curiosity led to me spinning 4 PM In The Ville, the debut album by Victorville, California, Singer-Songwriter Genia, and I have looked back since. Genia’s continuing to add to the redefinition of R&B/Soul conventions, blending more modern…
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Tainy was one of the first significant producers I started to follow within Reggaeton. Since then, he has had a consistent pouring of production and has easily transitioned through eras with evergrowing musical ambitions that have shown us Tainy can do more than we know, which is precisely so on his album Data. We hear…
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20. Aly & AJ – With Love From Aly & AJ’s return to music hit a momentous high on their excellent follow-up to some remarkable EPs: a touch of the beat gets you up on your feet gets you out and then into the sun, and that consistency shined through and through. It keeps us…
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Geese’s new album 3D Country brings reflections of a band continuously looking for ways to deliver music through unique conceptions and convictions within the instrumentals; it becomes hard not to find some attraction to their sound. Projector, their debut, bolstered these gloomier punk-rock and art-rock constructions, and though the latter continues with 3D Country, it…
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A week after Gunna released a Gift & a Curse, Young Thug released his follow-up to Punk, Business is Business. Leading to the album, YSL labelmates, friends, and associated acts and producers posted a QR code that led to a countdown indicating a new release by the currently incarcerated rapper. Unfortunately, Business is Business isn’t…
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It’s a constant delight for fans of older hip-hop artists when one of them drops an album; so for fans of Ultramagnetic MC Kool Keith, he’s back with another album in 2023, the follow-up to 1999’s Black Elvis/Lost in Space, Black Elvis 2. Unlike its predecessor, it isn’t overtly complex with the dimensions of its…
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Though fans haven’t seen an absence from Killer Mike, there has been an absence percolating as fans have gone 12 years since a solo outing by the Atlanta Rapper. There’s no better time than the present; with that, Killer Mike delivers an album full of socio-political commentary combined with personal introspections that boast the themes…
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To say the past year has been tumultuous for Gunna, Young Thug, and others apart of the Slime Gang/YSL Record label as they continue toughing it through their RICO case is an understatement. Fans and the world alike have gone through ups and downs as we see their lyrics get used as evidence and continuously…
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