Album Rating: 4.0

I’ve never thought he sounded like doom until this album. He’s been getting that comp since Doris, yet I never felt it held up until this release. Def not the beats at all but the flow

Album Rating: 4.0

I just watched that YouTube video of Earl and Tyler meeting DOOM for the first time and seeing them genuinely happy made me happy.

Was Doom wearing a mask?

"I’ve never thought he sounded like doom until this album. He’s been getting that comp since Doris, yet I never felt it held up until this release. Def not the beats at all but the flow"

word i didnt hear it before either but now i do

Album Rating: 3.0

'Lmao I think Earl wants to shake off DOOM's influence at this point. Like it'll never go away, but he wants to be his own musician.'



or just own it and stop being a bitch

I mean it’s got old timey samples, the songs are short and it’s lofi but literally that’s where the comparisons end. His old shit sounds nothing like doom.

Earl has way more of a lethargic and nihilistic style than doom with his lyrics. He’s more about like the meaning behind the words while doom was mostly about wordplay and savagery

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I think the DOOM comparisons come with Earl's choice of cadence and the particular brand of punchline/wordplay he does, especially early on.



The DOOM influence has been evident throughout his whole career but with obvious differences. DOOM's a grown nerdy stoner just loving life and not often taking things too seriously, Earl is a young depressed on and off substance abuser trying to find his way in the world. Earl definitely does enough and more to distinguish himself at any rate, imo. Different atmospheres and beats, different subject matter. Plus Earl actually does multiple flows, unlike DOOM, who just does the same flow over and over so well that you just don't get sick of it.



The DOOM influence is absolutely unignorable in some of his very first tracks under the handle Sly Tendancies. Lmao the first track on this EP was literally just him doing a DOOM flow on the All Caps beat from Madvillainy. It's clear where he started from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3MNZrNdqVU

Album Rating: 5.0

"Earl has way more of a lethargic and nihilistic style than doom with his lyrics. He’s more about like the meaning behind the words while doom was mostly about wordplay and savagery"



I agree IDLS on, but he legit sounds like a doom clone for the majority of Doris. Like idk how someone can listen to tracks like "Whoa" and "Centurion" and be like 'wow this rapper raps in a completely original way and sounds nothing like doom' unless you've never heard a doom track before. Love the hell out of that album but that's the truth

i think everyone's also just desperate for a successor to madvillainy; even if it's just a spiritual one, whereas i like the idea of it just being this standalone isolated phenomenon

also like let's be real, the quality of the two projects are not comparable and i like this quite a bit

Album Rating: 4.0

His best album

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Yeah, it's definitely Earl's best record and also, yeah, it's nowhere near another Madvillainy and that's perfectly okay.

Album Rating: 3.5

IDLS may be a lil better but this is almost as good. i always feel obligated to spin this whole album whereas with IDLS listening to random songs is way more appealing

Album Rating: 4.0

why ain't nobody tell me I was bleedin

Album Rating: 4.0

4.5 for me, and that's wayyyy better than what i've rated any of his other shit

I still think this is trash, and that earl probably spent 20 minutes writing this.

And yeah, every lofi rap album doesn’t have to be madvillain to be good, but this is neither madvillain or good.

Album Rating: 3.5

for sure doubt he spent twenty minutes writing any of this lol its length is hardly indicative of its density

Okay I’ll give it to you he spent 30 minutes.

No matter how “dense” it is, the songs, bars, samples, and other ambient noises are incorporated lazily and without effort.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Maybe it's meant to sound exactly like it sounds noler, looseness and all, and you don't like it, but that doesn't mean there's no effort behind it.

You can put effort into a loose-sounding record. This ain’t it.

So much of this is just him like chuckling and saying yuh yuh with no lyrical meaning

Album Rating: 4.0

maybe if you give it a 1 you’ll feel way better