Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2023 Heavy Heavy Young Fathers ★★★½ 79 Hip-Hop Neo Soul On Young Fathers’ first album since their great 2018 record Cocoa Sugar, the Scottish indie group replaces their usual dissonant and tense hip-hop production with gospel, soul and world music elements that introduce so much warmth and life. EvenContinue reading “Heavy Heavy – Young Fathers ★★★½”
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i was mature for my age, but i was still a child – grouptherapy.
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2023 i was mature for my age, but i was still a child grouptherapy. ★★★½ 71 Hip-Hop Alternative Hip-Hop It’s impossible to listen to grouptherapy. — a young, alternative hip-hop collective that uses internet-aged DIY production to blend rap, pop and R&B while discussing Gen Z themes — withoutContinue reading “i was mature for my age, but i was still a child – grouptherapy.”
Yeezus – Kanye West ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2013 Yeezus Kanye West ★★★★ 81 Hip-Hop Alternative Hip-Hop Electronic R&B Kanye West was on quite a run heading into 2013: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in 2010, Watch The Throne in 2011 and Cruel Summer in 2012 showcased his skills as a producer, a lyricist, a curator ofContinue reading “Yeezus – Kanye West ★★★★”
Madvillainy – Madvillain ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2004 Madvillainy Madvillain ★★★★ 82 Hip-Hop Alternative Hip-Hop Madvillainy is an almost one-of-a-kind listening experience. It’s highly intriguing and enriching, but so many fragments and ideas are thrown at you that it sometimes leaves you feeling like there actually wasn’t that much fully formed substance to grab onto. TheContinue reading “Madvillainy – Madvillain ★★★★”
Endtroducing….. – DJ Shadow ★★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 1996 Endtroducing….. DJ Shadow ★★★★½ 91 Electronic Alternative Hip-Hop Trip-Hop DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing….. is a pioneering album that set the standard for sample-driven instrumentals in electronic and hip-hop music, and solidified the sound that would come out of most trip-hop artists for the rest of the decade. Sample-heavy musicContinue reading “Endtroducing….. – DJ Shadow ★★★★½”
Kala – M.I.A. ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2007 Kala M.I.A. ★★★½ 76 Electronic Alternative Hip-Hop Synthpop Kala is a loud, bangin’ pop record that’s much less hip-hop leaning than M.I.A.’s previous album Arular and more overall about electronic production and creating dance tracks than her vocals. With an almost childlike, playground chaoticness or aggressiveness, M.I.A. mixesContinue reading “Kala – M.I.A. ★★★½”
The Impossible Kid – Aesop Rock ★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2016 The Impossible Kid Aesop Rock ★★★ 61 Hip-Hop The Impossible Kid is a fine album from a rapper who’s a holdout from an era of underground, electronic alternative New York-based hip hop that never really thrived or flourished into the mainstream. While most of Aesop Rock’s peers fromContinue reading “The Impossible Kid – Aesop Rock ★★★”
Room 25 – Noname ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2018 Room 25 Noname ★★★★ 80 Hip-Hop Alternative Hip-Hop Jazz Rap Noname has definitely developed her own sound and style; that much is clear after two records. 2018’s Room 25 hits a lot of the same vibes and notes as 2016’sTelefone. It’s jazzy, smooth, close, a bit dreamy andContinue reading “Room 25 – Noname ★★★★”
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