5/10
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Everyday Life is a well-produced but unfocused album with an incomplete message.
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Everybody’s Everything, while a mixed bag, isn’t the tasteless cash grab that posthumous releases these days tend to be.
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Westside Gunn’s grimy vibe remains the best thing going for him, while songwriting remains his Achilles heel.
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Feet of Clay sounds like a cobbled together set of SRS-style odds and ends.
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The production and vocal performances on Pony are considerable steps down from Rex Orange County’s previous efforts.
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While Battles maintain their unique style of math rock on Juice B Crypts, the band sounds like a shadow of its former self.
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Sturgill Simpson’s rock experimentation on Sound & Fury sometimes goes over well; other times it goes awfully awry.
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There’s no doubt DaBaby can flow; it’s just unfortunate he spends so much time on KIRK, as he says, “fuckin’ around.”
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Birth of Violence‘s stripped back presentation, despite its bewitchingly dark vibe, mostly exacerbates the relatively weak songwriting.
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House of Sugar is sprinkled with some brilliant and beautiful ideas, but is on the whole marred by an unsatisfying flow, dodgy songwriting, and faint lead vocals.