American Football: LP 3 | Teenage Feelings When You’re An Adult
Emo music for adults’ looks like an absolute trainwreck of an idea and maybe an album like American Football's LP3 deserves better, and more, than that.
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Eminem: Kamikaze | Over 2000 words you didn’t know you needed to read
Overthink, underthink—after listening to Eminem's surprise album, Kamikaze, I’m left wondering if he should have even thought at all.
Tirzah: Devotion | Least captivating album of 2018?
In other reviews of Tirzah's Devotion, Mastin is praised for writing ‘love songs,’ and I just have to wonder what I’m missing.
Nas: Nasir | A Musical Crime Perpetrated by A Once Great Artist
On “Adam and Eve,” Nas says, “I’m good at existing,” and that’s exactly what he’s doing with this batch of Kanye produced songs known as Nasir. Just existing.
Pusha-T: Daytona | Brief, Impressive, Yet Partially Flawed
For all the good things that Pusha T's Daytona has going for it, even with its short length, it is not a perfect record. However, With each subsequent listen, I find more things to appreciate about Daytona, so in the end, maybe this, for right now, is what we needed.
Album Review: Drone guitarists Kyle Bobby Dunn & Wayne Robert Thomas transcend on split 12″
Clocking in at 40 minutes, ambient and experimental guitarists Kyle Bobby Dunn and Wayne Robert Thomas have, in short, created two works on KBD / WRT that it is all too easy to become absolutely lost in.
Massive Attack: Mezzanine | Close Your Eyes and Reinvent Me | 20th Anniversary
Massive Attack's third album Mezzanine is the space between what Massive Attack was, and what the group was on the cusp of evolving into. The album has its 20th anniversary on 4-20-2018 and Kevin Krein celebrates the albums timeless nature.
Album Review: Moby’s Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt is better than its cover art, but not by much
Moby's new album Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt is not an inherently bad album, but it’s also not inherently good. However, it is much better than the atrocious cover art.
The Jefferson Park Boys fill the spaces between genres on Casual Horns, Dog
There’s a lot of instrumental music out there in the world, and it takes great skill and thought to put together wordless music that is able to create such an interesting and memorable atmosphere. The Jefferson Park Boys do just that on Casual Horns, Dog.
Eminem: Revival | Just about as bad as you’d anticipate
Who is the intended audience for Revival? Who is still a loyal Eminem fan, nearly 20 years removed from the auspicious Slim Shady LP?