Album Reviews – Page 39

Adrian Marcel – 7 Days of Weak [Album Review]

8.0

Singer Adrian Marcel can be easily mistaken for lending soulful vocals on Mariah Carey’s anticipated new single “#Beautiful”. Strikingly, crooner Miguel serves as honorary featured guest for that song. Perhaps,…

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9.0

PARTYNEXTDOOR – PARTYNEXTDOOR [Album Review]

PARTYNEXTDOOR, the enigmatic first signee to Drake’s OVO imprint, represents the softer side of misogyny (if there were such a thing). His eponymous debut is a manifestation of a juvenile…

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Evidence – Green Tape Instrumentals [Album Review]

Most heads remember his jam with Kanye West that goes, “I can’t live my, I, I can’t live my, I can’t live my life this way.” Or they know his…

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D-Sisive – The D.Ark Tape [Album Review]

Choosing the right music in the car is essential, especially in dealing with hip-hop. The moment that bad bitch at the crosswalk — you know the one — hears the…

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8.5

V.A. – RAWS-THREE [Album Review]

Tokyo has long housed a vibrant and burgeoning underground hip-hop scene, rivaling even the most die-hard indie rap scenes in New York City or Los Angeles. Some of these artists…

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5.0

Mac Miller – Watching Movies With The Sound Off

Mac Miller is like the Vanessa Hudgens of the rap game. He makes art for teens. Except unlike Hudgens, Miller has always been upfront about being a pothead. I guess…

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Quasimoto – Yessir, Whatever

This is what hip-hop should sound like. It doesn’t matter if you’re chilling at the tennis courts, killing time on the job or toking in your girl’s dorm room, Madlib’s…

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6.5

J. Cole – Born Sinner

Born Sinner is struggle music. It is melancholy and frustrated and no fun to listen to. From the moment J. Cole announces that it’s way darker this time—about 15 seconds…

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8.5

Kanye West – Yeezus

When it comes to those of us that critique music, there is a tendency to overanalyze. This is the case with no artist more than Kanye West, whose content and…

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Prodigy & Alchemist – Albert Einstein

Prodigy knew Alchemist was special after listening to ten seconds of his beats. The two hip-hop artists met in the ‘90s through mutual acquaintance DJ Muggs, the Cypress Hill producer…

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Disclosure – Settle

Over the past few weeks UK brothers, Guy and Lawrence Howard, better known to us as Disclosure, have been teasing and pleasing us with a slew of singles off their…

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Daft Punk – Random Access Memories

Five years and one inflated recording budget later, Daft Punk's fourth studio album Random Access Memories has finally hit the shelves in a display of major label fireworks. So captivating…

Archives: Album Reviews

Adrian Marcel – 7 Days of Weak [Album Review]

PARTYNEXTDOOR – PARTYNEXTDOOR [Album Review]

Evidence – Green Tape Instrumentals [Album Review]

D-Sisive – The D.Ark Tape [Album Review]

V.A. – RAWS-THREE [Album Review]

Mac Miller – Watching Movies With The Sound Off

Quasimoto – Yessir, Whatever

J. Cole – Born Sinner

Kanye West – Yeezus

Prodigy & Alchemist – Albert Einstein

Disclosure – Settle

Daft Punk – Random Access Memories

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