Album Reviews8.8/10
Call Me If You Get Lost Review: Tyler, The Creator’s Most Complete Record — 8.8/10
A wide-ranging rap record moving through soul, jazz and pop, never sitting still, never losing its rap base across sixteen tracks.
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Category: Album Reviews
Records we have scored.
Album Reviews8.8/10
Little Simz Builds a Stadium and Whispers Inside It: ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’ Reviewed
A record of swelling strings and bare confession, from stadium address to lone diary entry across many tracks.
Album Reviews8.8/10
Gibbs and Madlib Tighten the Piñata Formula on Bandana — 8.8/10
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib return with a tighter, rougher record than their first, full of force, control, and dark old soul.
Album Reviews8.8/10
Run the Jewels 3: Rage, Focus and a Duo at Their Sharpest
A record of Run the Jewels 3, wherein El-P and his partner rage against power, their chemistry never keener nor more resolute.
Album Reviews7.9/10
Culture Review: Migos Turn Ad-Libs Into an Artistic Statement (7.9/10)
A grim, spare demon of Atlanta rap arises full-formed, its ad-libs a low murmur, its silence a terror never once apologized for.
Album Reviews8.5/10
Travis Scott’s ASTROWORLD Still Rides Hard 8 Years On: 8.5/10
A theme park of guest verses and shifting beats, this record turns spectacle into song, matching its own bluster at last.
Album Reviews7.8/10
Eight Years On, Swimming Still Sounds Like Mac Miller Coaching Himself Toward Calm
Mac Miller's Swimming: a steady, candid record of staying afloat, thirteen songs deep, closing the loop it opened.
Album Reviews9.5/10
DAMN. Review: Kendrick Lamar Cuts the Excess and Hits Harder — 9.5/10
A tale of fourteen songs, wherein a man of rhyme tells of the doom and destiny of his own soul and country. A precise, singular work.
Album Reviews8/10
The Life of Pablo Review: Kanye West’s 18-Track Argument With Himself Earns an 8
A restless, uneven album of prayer, boast, and grief that argues with itself and mostly wins.
Album Reviews5.2/10
Justin Bieber’s ‘Swag’: Real Ambition, No Editing
Bieber's Swag: 21 tracks of hazy dreams, half-finished sketches, cracks left bare. Ambition true, order broken.
Album Reviews7/10
Addison Rae’s Debut ‘Addison’ Packs 12 Tracks Into 33 Minutes and Earns a 7/10
A brisk, thirty-three minute record moves a personality toward song rather than confession, through pace and mood alone.
Album Reviews7.6/10
Sabrina Carpenter Knew Exactly How This Album Would Land — and Made It Anyway
A record of twelve songs and thirty-eight minutes wherein a lady of song grows bolder, and each jest becomes a melody unto itself.