Album Rating: 4.5

I need your 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓸𝓸𝓸𝓸𝓸𝓿𝓮

Album Rating: 2.5

Ngl, I think Yachty himself might be the worst part of the album. He's so dull in almost every song.

THE BLACK SENTINEL HEAD GENERAL

Album Rating: 4.5

Album has a very ephemeral and fickle quality to it, Black Seminole and We Saw The Sun will have me crying like a baby one day, then the next day those same songs will whiz right by me without making much of an impression. I was really struck by this the first time i listened to it but it continues to grow on me in new and nuanced ways. Never really experienced anything like it

I gotta agree with cyg on this one man. Yachty fits this psych rock stuff like a shoe on a hand

Still an eyebrow raising record and props for the attempt, but it’s lacking a talented frontman. Hope he can find his voice and build on this in the future, he’s piqued my interest at least

Really thought I was gonna like it after Black Seminole but I didn’t

“This lil Yachty song sounds like Pink Floyd” is a brand new sentence

idk this is a hard record to pin down on a cursory listen

Album Rating: 4.5

Give it time. A lot of the guitar tones on here can be reaaaally screechy and off-putting at first. I think there’s a good handful of these songs that are total nol-core, the ride, pretty, we saw the sun, say something, etc. I’d classify this more often as r&b than i would psych rock but i get that the latter is what jumps out to people right out the gate

Album Rating: 4.5

List of albums by black artists that have more in common with this album than any old skool or contemporary psych rock, anything by Pink Floyd, or anything by Tame Impala:



Daniel Caesar’s “Freudian,” Frank Ocean’s “Blonde,” MorMor’s “Heaven’s Only Wishful” EP, Kali Uchis’ “Isolation,” D’Angelo & The Vanguard’s “Black Messiah,” N.E.R.D.’s “Things Are Getting Better,” Khalid’s “Sun City” EP



Turns out black artists have been playing & experimenting with this style for a minute and just because a black hip hop artist dabbles in neo psych trends or adds some distortion to an album or puts Floydian influences on like two tracks does *not* make it ‘black tame impala’ or whatever other reductive and ridiculous comparisons y’all come up with! 😘



Edit: nol this is in no way directed at you btw! This didn’t used to be the featured review so it’s missing pretty much all the discourse that happened on the site, and I’m prob also criticizing discourse I’ve seen in other places on the interwebz that I’ve seen repeated in similar ways on the site

bro what

Album Rating: 2.5

I don't think any of those listed albums have more in common with this than psych/prog classics. I don't think they're close.

Album Rating: 4.5

Don’t know what to tell you man, the only time this sounds like DSOTM is the opener, but it sounds like Blonde and Black Messiah in quite a few places! Sun City is also literally referenced in the lyrics. Listen again

Album Rating: 4.5

you can tell yves tumor worked on this, lots of stuff reminds me of him

Album Rating: 4.5

Good ear sint

cold like Minnesota>

Album Rating: 2.0

the tame impala comparisons only seem "reductive" and lazy because thats really all yachty has given us to work with besides some shallow floyd laser noises and some vague hendrix-isms that are more evocative of lenny kravitz on his least soulful night. dude should have ripped off amon duul II if he didnt wanna get called out so easily, but realistically we know yachty welcomes the tame impala comparisons as long as it gets him on white people's spotify playlists



most of the praise for this seems to be centered more around the aesthetic and what the presumed artistic intention is, rather than the actual material/end result. lil yachty everywhere all at once? :D

yea this is more interesting than Pink Floyd and tame impala ever was pasty ass paper bag ass music

Album Rating: 4.5

Honestly the first time I’ve seen anyone mention Hendrix in this conversation so kudos

Album Rating: 3.0

bring me back to the minnesota days