6/10
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Many of the songs on Is He Real? are either too underdeveloped or lacking in a distinct voice to capitalize fully on the fundamentals and promising concept IDK brings to the table.
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EarthGang’s shortcomings become apparent when they tone the intensity down midway through Mirrorland.
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Breakdowns galore on Knocked Loose’s death metal-infused sophomore album, though it’s sometimes hard to tell one from the next.
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If Lover were about five tracks shorter, it’d probably be Taylor Swift’s best album yet.
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Face Stabber is perhaps Oh Sees’ most ambitious album to date, but its protracted jams wear out their welcome before long.
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The times when King’s Mouth sounds like classic Flaming Lips partly make up for the album’s spotty narrative development and pacing.
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Though there are some experiments and weird ideas that don’t really pan out, We Are Not Your Kind is for the most part a return to form for Slipknot.
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i,i is in a sense a refinement of 22, A Million‘s innovations, but Justin Vernon still doesn’t seem particularly interested in tying up his songs’ loose ends.
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Planetary Clairvoyance features more compositional versatility than its predecessor, but unfortunately a less impressive mix as well.
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The Sailor is by turns impressive and disheveled in its combination of so many rap and pop music styles.
