3.5
NEGATIVE
Look. Aubrey Graham is the man. Let’s not get it twisted. When Drake drops, the culture stops. Yet I am...
3.5
NEGATIVE
6.9
POSITIVE
News flash. Doja Cat doesn’t owe us shit. Earlier this year, Doja let fans know how she felt about her...
7.2
POSITIVE
Okay, wait. Was I the only who didn’t realize James Blake dropped a new album? While a low-key approach doesn’t surprise me from Blake, he’s famous enough to gain traction. Though it appears he wanted to keep things mostly under the radar. Following many listens of Playing Robots Into Heaven...
8
POSITIVE
Two albums in two to three years. When I think of this idea, artists such as Alicia Keys and Kanye...
4.8
NEGATIVE
Polished riffs. That’s what this album reduces to, in my opinion. Five years have passed since Travis Scott’s last studio...
8.5
ACCLAIM
Be aware. Kendrick is one of my all-time favorite artists. Although giving his previous full-length LP high praise upon release, I have come to this conclusion. Despite the mainstream mastery of 2017’s Pulitzer Prize-winning album DAMN., it is my least favorite Lamar project. As time went on the sounds across...
9
ACCLAIM
Contemporary R&B struggles to innovate. It lives in both the shadows of its past as well as modern hip-hop. The...
9.3
ACCLAIM
Love. That’s what this is all about. New York native Caroline Polachek entered my world a few years back. Her...
8.4
ACCLAIM
Rosalía ushers in her third album with her signature angelic voice while reinventing herself into a “makeup de drag queen” that deserves applause. What she delivers is 40 minutes of the most thrilling, forward-thinking and chaotic music we’ve heard this year. Her 2018 Grammy-winning ‘El Mal Querer’, was the perfect blend...
6.4
MIXED
Drake, has this generation in a chokehold, and with the surprise release of his seventh studio album, fans expected to get...
