4/10
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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.
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Princess Nokia’s love for the emo scene can’t really be doubted, but A Girl Cried Red more often than not borders on unintentional parody.
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Kacey Musgraves softens and buries everything country about her music on the bland Golden Hour.
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The Neighbourhood incorporates more elements of synthpop and alternative R&B on their self-titled album, which is about as drab as what came before it.
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X makes some improvements on the mixing, singing, and songwriting fronts with ?, but the album is still a mixed bag consisting mainly of half-baked song ideas.
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Moorhead emo outfit Tiny Moving Parts release one of their most creatively bankrupt albums thus far.
