Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2016 Lemonade Beyonce ★★★½ 78 Hip-Hop R&B On Lemonade, pop and R&B icon Beyonce explores recent struggles in her personal life surrounding her husband’s infidelity, dabbling in a range of different genres on her way to both self appreciation and forgiveness. Although some of the concepts and lyrics areContinue reading “Lemonade – Beyonce”
Category Archives: Classic Albums
Confessions – Usher
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2004 Confessions Usher ★★★ 64 Hip-Hop R&B Usher’s Confessions has more bangers and hits than any other R&B record of its era. It starts with energy right away with “Yeah!,” one of the most iconic songs of the 2000s and a track that, even if it sounds a littleContinue reading “Confessions – Usher”
Flockaveli – Waka Flocka Flame
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2010 Flockaveli Waka Flocka Flame ★★★ 65 Hip-Hop Southern Hip-Hop Crunk If after hearing the main singles from Waka Flocka Flame’s debut album Flockaveli you thought to yourself, “this record’s gotta be made up of dumb, mindless, hyper-masculine, repetitive nonsense with no depth and a bunch of beats thatContinue reading “Flockaveli – Waka Flocka Flame”
808s & Heartbreak – Kanye West ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2008 808s And Heartbreak Kanye West ★★★½ 71 Hip-Hop R&B I know 808s & Heartbreak — Kanye West’s first venture into the R&B world — isn’t for everyone. But — when looking back at where hip-hop went in the 10-15 years after 2008 and how prominent R&B production, auto-tunedContinue reading “808s & Heartbreak – Kanye West ★★★½”
SCARING THE HOES – JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown ★★★★½
Year Album Artists Stars Score Genre 2023 SCARING THE HOES JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown ★★★★½ 90 Hip-Hop Scaring the Hoes is probably the most creative, experimental hip-hop album to come out over the past 10 years, and it makes sense given two of the most unique talents in hip-hop from the past decade joined forces toContinue reading “SCARING THE HOES – JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown ★★★★½”
Room on Fire – The Strokes ★★★★
Year Album Artist Star Score Genre 2003 Room on Fire The Strokes ★★★★ 85 Rock Alternative Rock Indie Rock It’s hard to follow up a debut album that reinvigorated an entire genre of music with anything but disappointment, but the Strokes really did the best anyone possibly could have on Room on Fire. The StrokesContinue reading “Room on Fire – The Strokes ★★★★”
Brothers – The Black Keys ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2010 Brothers The Black Keys ★★★½ 71 Rock Indie Rock Blues Rock I look back fondly on the days when The Black Keys were considered hip and cool, when they seemed like one of the last holdouts of the garage rock movement that started in the early 2000s withContinue reading “Brothers – The Black Keys ★★★½”
Transatlanticism – Death Cab for Cutie ★★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2003 Transatlanticism Death Cab For Cutie ★★★★★ 98 Rock Indie Rock Emo It’s probably obvious for me to say that the goal of a song, typically, is for the lyrics, vocals and instruments to all line up in perfect harmony. If that’s the case, the goal of a record,Continue reading “Transatlanticism – Death Cab for Cutie ★★★★★”
Pure Heroine – Lorde ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2013 Pure Heroine Lorde ★★★★ 80 Pop Indie Pop Pure Heroine offers everything you could possibly want from an indie pop record. Written and recorded when Lorde was 15 and 16 years old, the album displays the expertise a young musician would have growing up through the social mediaContinue reading “Pure Heroine – Lorde ★★★★”
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – Lauryn Hill ★★★★½
Years Album Artist Stars Score Genre 1998 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill ★★★★½ 93 Hip-Hop R&B Soul The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill really checks off all the boxes of what makes a record work. Strong vocals. Smart and personal lyrics. High quality, captivating production. Musical continuity from beginning to end and a clear,Continue reading “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – Lauryn Hill ★★★★½”
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