4/10
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Takeoff’s solo debut does virtually nothing to stand out in the current trap rap wave.
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If nothing else, Quavo Huncho suggests that Quavo’s dependence on Takeoff and Offset doesn’t run quite as deep as one might think. But what little appeal the album ends up having has less to do with him, and more to do with the features and variety of production.
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6LACK continues blending into the background of the alternative R&B field on his sophomore album.
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Eminem falls just short of ending his career on his latest album, Kamikaze.
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Marauder offers little more than a washed-out version of post-Bright Lights Interpol.
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Sorry to run with the obvious music critic quip, but it is pretty hard to hear what’s so redeeming about Redemption.
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Scorpion continues Drake’s streak of projects that have been padded out to oblivion.
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Testing contains some interesting ideas here and there, but they aren’t performed or organized all that well a great deal of the time.
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If there’s one thing I learned from SR3MM, it’s that the Rae Sremmurd brothers work better together.
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The two-disc Scars of Man finds Panopticon separating the black metal and American folk elements of his music, rendering it generic.
