Category: 8-10 Ratings
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Japanese Breakfast has been on a journey of momentous highs since coming off touring for Jubilee, her last album that encompassed emotional dexterity with the contrasts and parallels derived from jubilant sentiments. Though the band wasn’t celebrating something grandiose, the Michelle Zauner-fronted group made it appear as such with tracks that brought the weight from…
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Though I’ve come to appreciate some of the highs Lady Gaga has delivered since 2011’s Born This Way, nothing has hit me as noticeably as her music has, especially as a pop fan. That changed with her latest album, Mayhem, which shifts away from Chromatica since it’s not produced by the milquetoast DJs like Axwell,…
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Life is Beautiful is the latest release by Larry June, 2 Chainz, and The Alchemist. It is a surprisingly smooth project that shows we’ve been left starved by 2 Chainz’s lack of rapping over Alchemist beats. The writing treads familiarity for both artists, but having Alchemist’s smooth and calm production that radiates summer sun as…
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When Lambrini Girls appeared in my algorithm due to their profile on NME.com, I became intrigued, specifically by the aesthetic of sheer punk they imbued. Popping in some singles and eventually their debut album, Who Let the Dogs Out, showed listeners that they were here to cook exponentially. Their debut is an album riddled with…
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It’s safe to say I was more tepid about Bad Bunny’s last album because of how bloated it felt and its loss of focus amidst the plethora of features. It was as if he couldn’t hold down an identity like in past albums and instead just tried to hone in on the heights of his…
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With From A Birds Eye View, Cordae delivered something lesser than expected, falling into what some call a sophomore slump; however, after heading back to the drawing board to create something that resembles moderate cohesion without the sidesteps in The Crossroads. It isn’t an album with filler, instead, becoming whole with emotional depth from burgeoning…
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070 Shake has always been an artist who keeps the intrigue high and delivers potent music, even when I feel it’s not reaching the ceiling. We have had some quality drops with her first two albums; as she comes with her third, Petrichor, we see her taking a step back from the progressive R&B, Hip-Hop,…
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2024 has been one helluva year for Hip-Hop in the public eye, specifically emanating from a dynamic beef between two heavyweights in this era of the genre, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, over the summer. It brought back memories of iconic beef and the tug-and-pull between fandoms, like East Coast vs. West Coast in the 90s…
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Solo DOLO albums by Freddie Gibbs are a rarity. Rather, we’ve truly only had two before. They have been some of his better records to date—Freddie and You Only Live 2wice—that continues to be the case with his latest album You Only Die 1nce, which becomes an antithesis to the conceptual background beholden to You…
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Continuing a thread started by Pray For Paris of humbling oneself, Westside Gunn has returned with the DJ Drama hosted Still Praying, just one day after his Kay Slay posthumously hosted(?) EP, 11. However, what makes Still Praying different is its conceptual turn through the pro-wrestling sampled vocals that orchestrate a wrestling stage for us…
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