Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Album is sonically excellent.

The lyrics are a bit TOO on the nose, but it works? Idk.

I don't understand why people are so off-out by them.

Album Rating: 2.5

Can't wait for dem new Ghostbusters to get a load of my slimer

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

4 Degrees rules

I really like the last four songs too, especially Crisis

Execution and I Don't Love You Anymore are really great too

Album Rating: 3.5

bangers with confrontationally political sentiment, she manages to reduce it to platitudes and a remarkably poor vocabulary.

Album Rating: 2.5

'sonically excellent'



Oneohtrix Point Never involved what did you expect?

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

@Doof Yes exactly

Album Rating: 2.5

Well the Talking Heads album in question is Remain in Light and everyone has that rated on the site, it's sput law

Album Rating: 2.5

I am not liking this as much as I wanted to. It's like a 2.5 at this time. Will listen to it more to see if it grows.

Album Rating: 3.5

David Byrne in general has a poor vocabulary and a similarly blunt style of lyricism. I don't know when that became something worth reviling.



Idk how someone can rate the new Drake at a 3.5 (which is the same rating that I have), then rate this a 2 with the basis that it's lyrically empty and bordering on offensive. That's an inconsistency.



But I guess a protest album wouldn't be doing its job right if it didn't receive as much backlash as praise, so I guess that speaks to its strength in that regard.

Album Rating: 2.5

Drake's Views was fucking trash

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

All I see people talk about is Drone Bomb Me and Obama...



And Arcade mentions 4 Degrees once in his review, but really there is no problem with that song. It's not supposed to be subtle.

Album Rating: 3.5

Seems people will only accept protest records if their meaning is obscured and applicable to general life. Well, then that wouldn't be a protest record if the artist isn't bashing her message over your head, would it?



Anyway, I can't take this dude's opinion seriously when he brought fucking race into it.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Who brought race? It's really not about race at all...

Even Drone Bomb Me

Album Rating: 3.5

Arcade brought up race in one of his posts. Which its funny that he would bring up Antony's race as opposed to, say, the fact that she is transgendered and had to suffer through that her entire life. I've lost any withering respect I had for him from this review and posts thereafter.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Yeah her being trans puts a perspective on why she feels the way she does about the government. She feels like it has failed her. Especially with the laws going around now. Hence "I Don't Love You Anymore"



I can see the problems with this. She portrays herself as the victim or the bad guy and then tries to get the listener to follow along, which can be pretty off-putting for some people. The lyrics can be a bit too "blamey" like on Obama, but that's the only track I actually dislike.

" Idk how someone can rate the new Drake at a 3.5 (which is the same rating that I have), then rate this a 2 with the basis that it's lyrically empty and bordering on offensive. That's an inconsistency. "

it's only inconsistent if u judge the lyrics to be of equal importance to both records. the lyrics on views arent intended to make a difference to the experience of the album either way, whereas on this album they're meant to be bludgeoning and blunt political statements that are at the core of the experience

Album Rating: 2.5

I just found this quite dull tbh, colonial arrogance aside.



The campness grates - even the production does, to be honest. It picks up issues and presents them out of context, both lyrically and musically (OPN's great but miscast here). It comes across as self-righteous rather than genuinely empathetic. I don't like "4 Degrees" all that much either.



I liked the review, but maybe phrasing it on aesthetic lines would be better? Because I wouldn't be so fussed about the whole "you weren't there man" thing if it sounded like there was at least an attempt to "be there", place it in a context or whatever.

Album Rating: 3.5

I just can't believe that there are people that actually believe Antony has no right to feel hopeless or angry. That's so offensive to me. Being gay I had to endure a lot of shit, but it's nothing compared to what trans people go through on a day-to-day basis.



But I shouldn't expect anything more from a cardboard cut-out who culls his musical taste from general consensus.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

To be fair most of her disgust on this comes from the government bombing innocent people, torturing, spying, ect ect and then acting like they are the best.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

@Stranger OPN is the best part of this... Especially with ANOHNI's voice