Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2020 LULU Conway the Machine ★★★½ 78 Hip-Hop At only 22 minutes long, Conway the Machine might technically consider LULU an EP, but it feels like a complete album, and The Alchemist’s production just transports you into Conway’s world, with HARD bass notes, menacing, dissonant synths and gritty, methodicalContinue reading “LULU – Conway the Machine ★★★½”
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how i’m feeling now – Charli XCX ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2020 how i’m feeling now Charli XCX ★★★★ 85 Pop Electropop Hyperpop how i’m feeling now is a really good, well crafted pop album that expertly combines Charli XCX’s catchy, simple choruses, with complex production that keep you interested and coming back for more. It’s a work that isContinue reading “how i’m feeling now – Charli XCX ★★★★”
Whole Lotta Red – Playboi Carti ★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2020 Whole Lotta Red Playboi Carti ★★ 46 Hip-Hop Playboi Carti is an artist who has always been more about vibe and aesthetic than substance. His beat selection mixed with adlibs, repetitive hooks and lyrics make for a hypnotic, non-stop, “get hype” experience that all runs and flows together. Continue reading “Whole Lotta Red – Playboi Carti ★★”
Ohms – Deftones ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Scoore Genre 2020 Ohms Deftones ★★★½ 75 Rock Shoegaze Alternative Metal Through the three stages of the band’s life—an early rise at the height of the mid-90s nu-metal and hard rock craze, a slow fall into somewhat obscurity as the genre faded, and their resurgence as almost a 90s nostalgia act—DeftonesContinue reading “Ohms – Deftones ★★★½”
RTJ4 – Run the Jewels ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2020 RTJ4 Run The Jewels ★★★★ 80 Hip-Hop I know there have been extremely relevant and timely album releases in the past, but RTJ4 being released at the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement after another example of police brutality during the Covid-19 pandemic, and all of theContinue reading “RTJ4 – Run the Jewels ★★★★”
The Microphones in 2020 – The Microphones ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2020 The Microphones in 2020 The Microphones ★★★½ 79 Rock Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk I know that Phil Elverum has a following of die hard fans who feel connected to all of his projects, from The Microphones to Mount Eerie, but I’m not as in love with The Glow Pt.Continue reading “The Microphones in 2020 – The Microphones ★★★½”
Father of all… – Green Day ★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2020 Father of all… Green Day ★ 20 Rock Pop Punk Father of all… is a complete abandonment of anything Green Day may have represented or stood for in the 1990s and 2000. American Idiot may have been punk with a squeaky clean finish for commercial radio, as theContinue reading “Father of all… – Green Day ★”
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