5/10
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Despite the bouncy production, good feature spots, and Logic’s technical ability, Bobby Tarantino II is just as inconsequential as its predecessor.
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Though there are a few strokes of genius on A Productive Cough, too often Titus Andronicus relies simply on the novelty of mimicking a bar band to sell the album.
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Though there are some bright spots and risks that pay off, Turnstile’s sophomore album mostly offers run-of-the-mill New York hardcore with a bit of window dressing.
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Apart from a few bright spots, I can feel you creep contains Tune-Yards’ most uninteresting and obnoxious material to date.
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Atlanta’s own Metro Boomin crafts some of his best production yet for this new collaboration with Big Sean, but the Detroit resident fails to deliver.
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The long wait for Cyhi The Prynce’s debut album doesn’t make this utterly average project an easy pill to swallow.
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Liars’ TFCF is one of the band’s most isolated, tedious, and disappointing releases yet.
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Destroyer’s latest record is an awkward helping of new wave pastiche.
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British singer-songwriter Benjamin Clementine brings more bells and whistles on his sophomore album I Tell a Fly, but it’s unfortunately a case of more being less.
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Skepta’s new EP starts strong enough and even offers a miraculous banger featuring the Based God himself, but it instantly takes a nosedive in the second half.