There was once a time when it seemed like Lil Yachty was one of the most exciting and disruptive up-and-coming forces in hip-hop music, his endearingly haphazard approach destined to become a highly influential movement. Passed over by a couple of his contemporaries and other subgenres rising to the top, Yachty has seemed a little … Continue reading Lil Yachty – Lil Boat 3
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Lady Gaga – Chromatica
After taking a couple diversions from her status as a world-dominating pop star that included a stripped-back country-pop project, a couple albums of duets with a legendary jazz singer, and becoming an Oscar-nominated actress, Lady Gaga’s first album in four years is her much-anticipated return to the kind of extravagant and electronic dance-pop that characterized … Continue reading Lady Gaga – Chromatica
The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form
Polarizing and provocative pop-rock outfit The 1975 have only striven harder and harder to make the kind of experimental and mind-opening music to match what often comes across as delusions of grandeur and strained connections of their work to global activism as their careers have progressed. After somewhat of a breakthrough with their past album, … Continue reading The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form
Gunna – WUNNA
After generating some serious buzz with a series of snippets played over livestream, one of Young Thug’s YSL label’s biggest superstars releases his sophomore full-length project. The album’s title is supposedly based on some kind of half-baked “alter ego” concept, loosely defined by Gunna as a “more spontaneous” version of himself and never addressed on … Continue reading Gunna – WUNNA
Charli XCX – how i’m feeling now
Trust one of the most consistently forward-thinking artists in the industry to release an entire album from quarantine that reflects and encompasses the insanity of the historic times that we’re currently living through. Only 8 months after she changed the pop music game with her self-titled previous album, Charli XCX has given us another collection … Continue reading Charli XCX – how i’m feeling now
Future – High Off Life
It’s been pretty annoying lately to be witnessing just how much hip-hop music is stuck in a rut creatively, and quite a bit of that can be attributed to young artists trying to ride on the coattails of musical styles popularized by veterans of the game like Future. The man drops a lot of music, … Continue reading Future – High Off Life
Kehlani – It Was Good Until It Wasn’t
Now a prominent force in the world of contemporary R&B, Kehlani’s sophomore studio effort continues to highlight quite a few aspects of her truly unfortunately drama-filled personal life that continuously makes its way onto headlines with her technically skilled and expressive vocal delivery. Taking a 3-year break after her outstanding debut SweetSexySavage, save for last … Continue reading Kehlani – It Was Good Until It Wasn’t
Nav – Good Intentions
The big-name Toronto-area releases just won’t stop for the last couple of months, and this time we have Nav returning all too soon with the follow-up and spiritual successor to last year’s abysmal Bad Habits, titled Good Intentions. At this point, with how much people joke about Nav, I must admit that at times on … Continue reading Nav – Good Intentions
JoJo – good to know
Former child star JoJo’s career trajectory has been all over the map, and her 4th studio album comes after a decade of contract disputes, a return to the public eye in 2016 with the respectable Mad Love, and finally leaving Atlantic Records and starting up her own label. Once again, JoJo has shifted her sound … Continue reading JoJo – good to know
Drake – Dark Lane Demo Tapes
After taking what has surprisingly been one of the longest ever gaps without new Drake music at just under two years since his mega-album Scorpion, the world’s biggest artist has seen fit to drop a preview of his upcoming full-length due this summer compiled of leaks and B-sides that mostly showcase his laid-back storytelling side, … Continue reading Drake – Dark Lane Demo Tapes
