Got it a few weeks ago. As far as I know, they haven't been holding it from critics. There are just a lot of big albums this week, and it's not everyone's top priority to review.
I'd originally put this in the text of the piece, but I wrote this on Friday, before Future's Purple Reign tape came out. If I'd waited, it would've gone to Future. Purple Reign is my favorite 2016 album thus far; I'd even put it above Blackstar.
Deacon said that Bowie wrote the bassline, and Bowie said that either did it. Either way, I don't know if that bassline would've found as hospitable a home on another Queen song. If Bowie's not on that, I don't think it ever reaches Vanilla Ice.
I hate pom pom more because (1) it's like 80 times as long and (2) it's repugnant on more levels than just the musical one. "Floridada" is just dumb and bad; it doesn't go any deeper than that.
Adele uses melisma really sparingly.
Honestly, I feel like a lot of people's problem with Adele is cultural, not musical. The language people use when they bash her isn't about the actual music; it's about the people that they imagine are consuming the music.
Wu-Tang was also a major cultural phenomenon in ways that Odd Future never could be. Even if you adjust for the downloading/streaming age, they were way, way more of a commercial presence. They made hits, albeit maybe reluctantly. And they only really diluted their brand when all these vaguely-affiliated groups, like Sunz of Man and Killarmy, started releasing albums.
I always thought it was sort of pedestrian to compare OF and Wu-Tang. They are just two utterly, completely different entities. I don't think any past rap crew really compares with O.F.; their whole transgressive-punk-energy thing doesn't align with the goals or aesthetics of anyone else, really.
I gave Le1f Album Of The Week last year! For an EP! And Mixtape Of The Week *twice*! I really like him. And his album is good, but it's coming out in the same week as a lot of other good things.
It had a real shot, though the two songs that came out yesterday were pretty uninspiring. I really expected to be giving it to Ty Dolla $ign, but I only got my promo of that yesterday, and on my first couple of listens, I just didn't connect with it the way I did with Church.
I really liked some of the 0PN joint and hated some of it. But I don't think you should be shocked that everyone is not necessarily going to be on board for the "terrifying squiggle-synth jibbers" album.
That's honestly how I felt about her for a long time, and I didn't even like "212." But I saw her at Coachella this year and she kinda blew me away. She's good! She's just not good enough to continually pull this kinda bullshit and get away with it.
Hey, this guy was my mayor! Fun facts: He was locally famous for playing shows with O'Malley's March all through the time he was mayor and then governor. Also, he's the basis for the Tommy Carcetti character on The Wire. Also, he's a tool whose zero-tolerance policing policies contributed to the climate that gave us the Freddie Gray murder this summer. Also, this cover is trash.
Fun fact: Hustle & Flow director Craig Brewer directed this week's episode of Empire. (This week's episode was pretty bad, even if the showdown at the Leviticus nightclub was pretty fun.)
Just want to jump in here to say that Geoff Rickley is a really great dude and an inspiration to a whole lot of people. I hope he doesn't get blamed for all this shit, and I feel really bad for everything he's going to have to deal with as this story builds.
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