๐ฝ 11/3/2023 - Six Desperate Ballads
The only songs I know by The Garden are Call This # Now and Thy Mission. I think I listened to one of their albums before and was expecting an upbeat silly alt rock thing, so this sorta weird art-punk experimentation came as a bit of a surprise. I don't really mess with it though... Most of the songs have potential but are just too messy for me to enjoy. I also can't believe how much I disliked Hell Hole; it's not often I decide I never want to hear a song again?? That being said, I did like the last two tracks a fair amount. These guys certainly have range, I just think they might need to find their footing... but who knows, since everyone else seems to like the album??
๐ต 10/18/2024 - M3 N MIN3 by Femtanyl and Danny Brown
Is 2024 just the year of great music or something?! 2024 and 2023! I was already loving life when I saw Danny Brown gassing up Femtanyl, and now the worlds collide where they made a collab?! I'm in love! I'm surprised how poorly this song was received, but maybe it's just from people who don't dig Femtanyl in the first place. This is one of the few times I wish the mixing made the vocals more coherent, because rap is kinda one of those things where you wanna understand what the person is saying... Still, could this signify an upcoming collab album....?!
๐ต 10/11/2024 - Puff Daddy by JPEGMAFIA & Kenny Beats
This isn't safe for me to listen to bro. I'm still high off the
Denzel/Kenny collab, not to mention the NEW PEGGY? And now we're
getting PEGGY AND KENNY? Oh good lord I'm not ready for it, I'm
not ready, it's everything I could've ever dreamed of. BITCH WE
STRAPPED LIKE DUKE NUKEM!
๐ต 9/24/2024 - Enemy of My Enemy by All Them Witches
This goes WAYYYY harder than I would have expected from All Them
Witches??? I'm used to their lighter sound, mainly because I
almost exclusively listen to Sleeping Through the War, but this
blew me away so hard while I was reading that I had to stop and
type some code for the first time in a month. "Behold my power"
with that intense wave of reverb-heavy sound just kinda shook me
up.
๐ฝ 8/15/2024 - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU by JPEGMAFIA
You guys have no idea how badly I needed this. To me, Peggy was
one of those artists that I always felt had crazy good
potential, but I just had to wait it out for him to find his
footing. I admired his experimental, chaotic sound but it didn't
appeal to me too much outside of a few songs. I thought the
Danny Brown collab really transformed his style, and we have the
evolution I've been waiting for on this album, and it's harder
than I ever could've imagined!! You're telling me this dude is
taking some already off-kilter hip-hop beats, throwing some
distorted guitar riffs over it, and then has the audacity to add
in STRINGS for emotional weight?! This dude does practically
everything I love in a song to such an insane extent that it
feels like every song is secretly 3 different micro-songs. When
people say hip-hop is the new punk, JPEGMAFIA is who they're
talking about.
๐ฝ 5/25/2024 - DARK TIMES by Vince Staples
I'll admit I really like Vince Staples' earlier music the most
out of his overall catalog. I tend to like that loud bombastic
sound... Summertime '06 was hard. With this release though, I
found this had a nice moodiness to it that wasn't overly
depressing like I feel his recent albums have been. Nothing
wrong with depressing... it's just not my cup o' tea lately.
Maybe I should go back and relisten to his last two records.
Maybe I was being too harsh on them?
๐ต 5/15/2024 - Holla At Ya Mans by Bruiser Wolf
This dude has the most idiosyncratic flow I've ever heard. I'm
trying to compare him to any other artist just to make sense of
what I'm listening to but he does not sound like ANYONE ELSE in
the game right now. Also he's SO FUNNY I can't stop thinking
about "we got the block ovulating"!!
๐ฝ 5/11/2024 - Blue Lips by ScHoolboy Q
I'm so mad at myself for not listening to this on release.... is
there ANY reason people were so quiet about this album when it's
got NO SKIPS??? Every song is so HARDDDD. I'm gonna be so
annoying about Back n Love.
๐ต 3/3/2024 - ใขใใซๅชๅใใใชใใงใขใใใ by Group Tamashii
Went down a rabbit hole trying to find a non-Soulseek way of
downloading music because TMC is not available on there.... to
no avail. Am I really gonna have to order a CD?!
๐ฝ 2/24/2024 - Rust in Peace by Megadeth
I've never actually listened to this album all the way through
and goddamn I love Megadeth. Wasted my youth listening to more
Metallica than these guys. They're a lil goofy, but it works.
๐ต 2/24/2024 - Sunday Service by Latto
Y'all heard of Latto because why did it take me this long to
discover her? The bars are crazy.