Category: 4-7 Ratings
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The Voices of The Heroes is muddled with a bloated tracklist running 18 tracks long, but there is fortunately enough to keep the music flowing. Lil Baby & Lil Durk have great chemistry and their future looks bright if they continue to collaborate. Their stylistic similarities and energy they have consistently stored in the tank…
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Exodus is a beautiful swan song, as we hear DMX’s lasting partial words, and not his last, as he transcends into being one of Hip-Hop new angels, watching over us and the game. Swizz Beatz gives us a remnant of the past, while keeping it fresh for the times as X delivers some of his…
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The album cover’s homage to the DMX and Nas vehicle Belly embodies a lot of the themes reflected in Kommunity Service, like brotherhood and gang violence, which they never shy away from on the album. When it’s brought to life they strive above some of their more mundane outputs. It isn’t the most perfect album,…
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Olivia Rodrigo has a keen ear as a musician and singer-songwriter as if she has been in the industry for years. And that is what spread throughout Sour, as it is engulfed by illustrious pop and indie rock anthems and ballads that all intertwine into one long and thoroughly written introspective piece about maturity, adolescence,…
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The Off-Season brings a lot to the table and at the same time leaves you with enough to indulge. But it isn’t without its problems. Fortunately these problems don’t hinder what J. Cole tries to get across. He has good concepts that come across well, without hiccups, it’s just the little things that you can’t…
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However Van Weezer comes in as the complete opposite, in sound and tone, from OK Human. Rivers Cuomo writes these songs in the lyrical and thematic style of glam metal/hair metal from the 80s, taking cues from Van Halen, Whitesnake, and Black Sabbath to name a few. It’s youthfully energetic and complete joy to listen…
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Their new album, A Touch of the Beat Gets You Up on Your Feet Gets You Out and Then Into the Sun, brings that eclectic array of indie-pop rock and synth-pop that carry a sonically thematic summer coating with the electronic-instrument overlays. Though some choices may come off misguided in production choices, there is a…
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Not In Chronological Order brings a galaxy full of electric pop songs and beautifully delivered ballads, despite quick pacing and a short runtime.
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Within the reggaeton/Urban Latino genre, the shift in delivery has been in constant motion with hip-hop’s popularity of the melodic flow. Beneath the popular world of music, the crevices with rappers who break the dynamic idea of what is a sonic hitter of the genre, like Myke Towers and Jon Z – who are esoteric…
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In the ever-growing popularity of hip-hop from the United Kingdom in the United States, many artists have crossed the territorial borders that distinguish the two. Some have made a name past that into the pop world, but their prominence still stays within the hip-hop community. One artist, AJ Tracey, has a career going back some…
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