6/10
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Vein’s debut album offers a diverting blend of metalcore and alternative metal styles as well as its share of growing pains.
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By adhering so much to its grand formula, Heaven and Earth comes off as even more cumbersome than The Epic.
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The Now Now is a pleasant mood album while it’s on—especially in comparison to Humanz—but it’s still relatively low-impact.
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For the most part, Rico Nasty’s, well, nasty persona is enough to carry this breakthrough album. Just hoping she can show a bit more versatility on future projects.
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On most tracks, not even Kanye’s excellent production is enough to save Nasir from Nas himself.
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More so than Big Ups’ two prior albums, Two Parts Together suffers from a serious lack of refreshing ideas.
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Age Of is abstract ear candy at its highest points, but is ultimately Oneohtrix Point Never’s least realized album in some time. The vocal tracks in the front half are particularly an Achilles’ heel.
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Though Tear has its consistency issues and its concept is sacrificed for the sake of having something for everybody, BTS is making ambitious and passionately performed pop music that puts many of their Western contemporaries to shame.
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The pieces on Park Jiha’s Communion are lovely individually, but overall, the blend of sounds could have been a bit more consistent and more attention could have been paid to the album’s flow.
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Courtney’s vocal performances aren’t much less humdrum on Tell Me How You Really Feel than they were on her debut, but the slightly brighter and more aggressive instrumentation this time around offers a welcome change of pace.
