Aug 10, 2020

Paul Simon’s graceland

 

Feb 16, 2021

Respect man, huge respect. Tag me when you're back though!

 

Feb 16, 2021

Absolute legend. I salute you brother

 

Nov 23, 2020

One of the greatest of all time. Absolute classic

 

Nov 22, 2020

Idk if the song Rent is on that Pepper album, but that songs a classic for me and the homies in real life

 

Nov 22, 2020

@Sign Language

#64: Pepper - Kona Town [11/10 8.4/10]​

Yoooo I soon as I saw that fish on the cover I was like "Ahhhhhh shieett, this bout to be another bomb the home Sign plugging in". It's a good thing I kicked vey smoking & drinking habits to the curb, well, maybe not. I do sometimes miss the extra kick that somehow gets produced when you're busted, not that I'm trying to condone y'all to start becoming a junkie or a fiend that I'm likely gonna step over the next time I'm on my way to the corner store. But like I was saying, if I was high while I bumped this s---, a Rasta hat would have immediately dropped from the sky onto my head, I would have thrown my life savings to h--- and bought a sail boat for no f---ing reason and breezed to the Caribbean where I would have spent the rest of my life on a hammock, getting blown on the beach as the tides gently caress the sands.

If it isn't obvious by now, this is very much a Reggae Rock album, with just a twist of alt-rock themes/drum work. If you are a fan of Sublime or old school No Doubt, you're gonna love the h--- out of Kona Town. The intro is exactly the type of entrance music you'd get as you land on some exotic island and beautiful women throw flower petals at you while burly men twirl fire torches and whatnot. While it's mostly feel good music, as any Reggae Rock album should make you feel, there are some social commentary tracks that actually caught me off guard, even if the execution isn't particularly striking it's still a great attempt at adding variety. The tempo does shift from classic Reggae bass breaks to Alternative chords mostly around the B-Side where the album does tend to slog a bit, but I can't even be mad at just how good these instruments sound. Honestly I've absolutely loved this album, been coasting through their discography as a result since this music is just irrepressible, it has just enough pop to reel you in while the more relaxing undertones will ultimately win you over. Great album guys go check out Pepper!

 

Nov 19, 2020

Ayyyyy that was a great read! You summed up the blog era perfectly, and way better than I ever could. I will always have nostalgia for those days. Having any song at your fingers tips in a matter of seconds these days is nice, but it’ll never top scrambling for a link, uploading it to your iPod to repeat for the next month, and searching the blogs for new rappers and songs to show your homies, in my eyes.

 

Nov 14, 2020

@Enez

#59: Can - Mago Tago [10/10]​

It's funny how I was just saying I needed more classic rock recommendations in that last review. When it comes to experimental stuff, I don't know about you guys, but I always enjoy that challenge of digging deep to find that kumbaya moment where I truly come to understand the art I subjected myself too. Nothing is more rewarding than challenging your tastes and uncovering something that could warp your own perception of music in general. In the case of this album from German Krautrock band Can, I truly enjoyed every moment of me sitting there and absorbing everything I could from this experience.

Similar to when I just did The Stooges review, I could immediately trace all the influences that this has gone on to govern. This was almost like The Flaming Lips before they were, The Flaming Lips. There's this brisk element of psychedelic that is absolutely mind-blowing at how subtle it is, almost like your traveling through the very subterranean of your conscious before it crescendos at the very end of the album and you reach total enlightenment. I can't even describe at how crazy it is an album like this sounds as futuristic as it is....and it was recorded in 1971!!!! There's a real cutting edge at how each instrument is arranged to induce this dreamy, almost dystopian atmosphere, like some crazy acid jazz but with rock instruments, it's only exacerbated more when the vocals come out from nowhere like if this were some demented fever dream. Overall it's something I was absolutely floored with and I highly encourage any other music connoisseur here to challenge themselves with, its one of the most spell-binding pieces of music I've ever heard.

#60: Deftones - Diamond Eyes [8.3/10]
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You're g.d. right I'm going two for two with this! Man I haven't heard this s--- in so long, it's funny cause every now and then a Deftones song comes up in my rotation and I'm immediately reminded of the greatness this band perturbs. If I was ever in the mood to hear some badass guitar being shredded complemented with a distorted, guttural vocalist via Chino, this band was the one. They also have the best covers of any band ever, don't @ me! This album was also my introduction to them, right around that summer entering my senior year of high school. Even if alt-metal was so seldom seen at the time, Diamond Eyes has a strangely nostalgic ting to it, now that it's been so many years since this first dropped. The cool thing about Deftones is that no matter how hard they thrash their instruments, there's still a very melodic formula behind it, it's the sort of metal that won't make you squirm in discomfort. Chino's lyrics are also so heartfelt, it's something genuine that you don't get from the cringe nu-metal stuff that served as predecessors. This album is honestly where they reached a new level of polishing when it came to studio mixing, especially when you look back at their earlier work, which is so rooted in it's timeframe. Overall it's not something that will blow your mind, but if you're already a Deftones enthusiast it's another staggering album in their collection.

 

Nov 12, 2020

@Ordinary Joel

#57 Sault - UNTITLED (Rise) [8.5/10]​

Ok, soooo there's a reason I haven't done these in awhile That has nothing to do with the fact I was swamped with therapeutic work. So one day I was just about my business right, suddenly somewhere in the deepest trenches of mind my mind, a figurative file drawer opened and I was reminded "Oh s---t, lemme go check out what OJ recommended me real quick." I sat there in front of the Youtube window listening to this, from there, I blacked out and didn't wake up until today, like I was in some fossilized condition and was left in hibernation. Was I hypnotized? Sequestered by the music? I dunno, but lemme recap what I experienced while I was floating in limbo....

There's nothing quite like this that I heard in quite some time. I have no clue who the heck each of the performers are (there's little to no information at all). Trying to even pin this group down to a single music genre is another exercise in futility, the mood shifts ever so often that you don't even realize what hit you till it's gone. What this is, is a one way ticket to that boogie wonderland that Earth Wind & Fire prophesied to us many moons ago. It was like I was airdropped into this exotic African jungle of the very best elements of funk and soul, I dare you even trying to sit still when all the instruments come full force barreling in your direction. There's a bit of a afro-futuristic theme that's ever so slightly hidden within the music, each part is so musically dense with lush drums, moving baselines and gentle synths that you can't seriously find anything to complain about. This is one of those hidden jewels that you gotta venture through a lair of pitfalls and traps on some Indiana Jones s--- to firstly capture, and then appreciate, this is one heck of a surprise!

 

Nov 3, 2020

Fire squad we need a review of magic OPN by Oneohtrix Point Never

 

Sep 30, 2020

@Thy

#55: Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow [8.6/10]​

Ah, this one...yeah I remember this one. There's always a certain trepidation that comes when you look at music lists and see s--- like "This is the most critically acclaimed s--- to drop this year, if you don't listen to this you're a swine!!!!" Not to s--- on certain publications or flat-out say people are wrong, but magnification can cause unrealistic expectations that lead to disappointment (*cough* TPAB *wheeze*). So that brings me to these guys, Blackalicious--composed of California underground hero Gift of Gab & producer Chief Excel--a name I saw sometime when I was in high school and at my most hungriest for discovering music I can impress myself and, well, the rest of the swine I ironically made light of. When I bumped this years ago, I was like "so what's so impressive by this?" and simply discarded it...funny thing is once you grow older and expand your tastes you look back and realize "well s---, I was wrong." So if I had a time machine, I'd go back and punch 16-year old me in the f---ing face.

Blazing Arrow is peak Adult Swim bumper music if there ever is such a thing. If you're familiar with these guys, it should come to no surprise the cavalcade of random samples that Chief Excel pulls up with on their records, this album has everything from soul, vinyl scratches, phone rings, random interviews--think DJ Shadow & a bit of El-P before the Run the Jewels era. These eclectic break loops give this project a distinct futuristic sound, aided with Gift of Gab's nimble rhyme schemes and turn of phrases, altogether you get a truly elite rap record that has no shortage of intrigue. Blazing Arrow encapsulates a lot of what made alternative-rap fun; taking an extremely good rapper and situating him in an island of varying production cues, combined with the guest contributions from other underground favorites like Dilated People, Jurassic 5 & even Zach De La Rocha all to create this cornucopia of what dusty hip-hop should sound like. While it may not blow you away, it's a great project with a uniformed direction that never strays away from it's formula, if you're looking for extensive sample-heavy loops and some fantastic rapping then this will be heaven for you.

 

Sep 30, 2020

@Sign Language

#54: Failure - Fantastic Planet [8.5/10]​

Sorry for the wait guys, had a lot of work lately with my patients undergoing some early fall blues. Once you take off that cape after a hard day, there is no better comfort than bumping music, especially something that you've never heard before. Leave it to Sign Language's impeccable music taste to put me onto another masterful rock album, I've sat with this one for awhile now and with every passing day I've noticed my apparel change from hoodies to dirty flannel shirts and ripped jeans, that's the power of 90's rock for ya.

Seeing as this was my introduction to Failure, I had no idea what I was in for (well ok, I saw the rocket ship in the cover and clapped like a circus seal "durr hurr dis anotha space rock album"). Once that intro kicks off with a grungy guitar riff and earth-shattering drums, the rest of the album follows suit with a wide-arrange of heavy feedback guitar work and crescendoing hooks that sort of recalled something I would have expected from Alice In Chains mixed with Tool for some reason. The most impressive thing is while the formula doesn't stray too far from song to song, with a couple minor adjustments with instrumentation choice of course, the consistency never falters one bit. The lyrics, hit pretty hard to tell you the truth, it's standard fare if you know how prolific drug abuse/depression was in 90's alternative was, but the impact still remains there. What takes Fantastic Planet over the top is a couple of standout songs, particularly in the B-side where the sequencing from track to track is superb, the one-two punch of this & this is jaw-dropping, it takes a seriously talented band to pull off such a dynamic utilization of resources to create such celestial rock tunes. You won't regret listening to this one guys, I clearly haven't!

 

Sep 28, 2020

https://www.datpiff.com/XV-Zero-Heroes-(Remastered)-mixtape.477703.html

 

Sep 25, 2020

Bout to start charging $500 for each paragraph, Sony’s got the right idea

Your album is up next, you always got GOAT music to share so I already know this gonna be something!

 

Sep 25, 2020

Lmao