Category: 4-7 Ratings
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When speaking about popstar giants, Kylie Minogue is in the upper pantheon alongside greats like Madonna, Britney Spears, Dolly Parton, etc., for her consistency and influence. The former rings true with her 16th album, Tension, which continues to show she can still command the spotlight in her songs as she maneuvers through these different sounds…
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Doja Cat’s controversial past and present are public, whether through her vocabulary and appearances in incel chat rooms and social media or the disavowment of her fans on Threads – I have my thoughts about the latter as she went at stans, some of whom may have a wild fandom where they need to “touch…
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This past Thursday, September 14th, Nas turned 50 years of age. And to bless us, like how I blessed my friends by smoking them out on mine, he dropped the third installment of his Magic series, and if this is the last one-to-one collaboration with Hit-Boy, a great send-off at album number six. Between King’s…
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Continuing to grow and explore new foundational soundscapes has always been part of the intrigue of James Blake’s music. Though centered within electronic music, we’ve heard him construct more productions via different instruments or vocal melodies. Assume Form saw him get more poppy; The Colour of Everything incorporated more soul; it all stemmed from a…
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It can be a shocker when reflecting upon music through a certain peak in adolescence – that happened to me when I started playing the new Icona Pop album Club Romantech. It’s a lavish hybrid of Electronica treading new territory instead of the more maligned and narrow This Is…Icona Pop. There are some great songs…
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In 2023, it was quite a surprise to see Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist take the route of an NFT-Adjacent release for a month before properly releasing through streaming platforms. But I’m not one to harp on release decisions unless it’s shifting the meaning of a mixtape as Drake did by selling one; however, it’s…
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Ever since the release of Barbie, one band has returned to the crevices of my music-loving mind and has found a home again after nearly a decade-plus since revisiting their first three albums. That band is Matchbox Twenty, and unbeknownst to me, they dropped their fifth album, Where The Light Goes, earlier this summer. As…
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Sometimes, it gets hard to hide my affinity for the independent singer-songwriter genre as they pave their way through different soundscapes to learn and grow. Amongst the many, UK singer-songwriter Birdy has been near the top of my list for faves – part of it is because of her last album, Young Heart, where her…
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Throughout his career, Southern Californian rapper G Perico has stayed on a consistent path delivering quality music over solid apropos West Coast productions, and that goes for moments where he gets lyrically redundant or repetitive. It’s a common trait for artists who drop many projects yearly because the energy and writtens allow them to churn…
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Since their debut of the more melancholy, lo-fi-driven Earl Grey, Girl Ray has elevated their sound to bring more than straightforward pop textures, incorporating influence from some of the seismic pop music of the 2010s, like “Take Care” by Drake featuring Rihanna, an example used in the Apple Music Bio. With Girl, it felt refreshing,…
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