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Nujabes Hydeout Productions 1st Collection
Of course, comparison with volume II is inevitable. In overall quality, and also instrumentally, they are eminently similar and there isn't much to say here that I didn't say for volume II. The vocals here are perhaps a bit less adventurous, yet there are a few tracks where I found they really let down the instrumentals. The atmosphere is perhaps a little more uniform here but remains o so sweet, Nujabessy and aerial. This collection is also a lot more frontloaded than the first one. Almost all of the tracks that felt more strikingly appealing were in the first half, until out of nowhere the last two tracks (and the conclusion track which is 		4.0
04.27.24
MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday
After the intro and without a conclusion, Op Doomsday is experienced as a series of consistently well crafted songs that all blur into one another save for the one that slows up and down. It is an eminently playlistable album and its style is more classic and closer to boom bap than Madvillain's is, but that also makes it feel less abrasive and more uniformly good. There are few if any complete wow moments, but equally I can't think of a single point I disliked although owing to being the only non intro track here departing from the sound, the slow-fast one does feel a bit jarring. Unlike on Madvillain, the songs are actually developed and le		4.0
04.27.24
Kendrick Lamar DAMN.
This is Kendrick's popular album of the time. In a way this makes it feel older than its
predecessor TPAB. Songs like HUMBLE,LOVE, and others (to an extent DNA and LOYALTY) feel like
they belong to a time now long gone by, and lack the aspect intemporel that TPAB's grandeur
offered. Where I find the album to be more successful, less out of date and more consistent is
in its lazier, hazier, woozier slower paced tracks heralded by the calming YAH which is
accompanied by many such others, and makes one wonder if DAMN could have simply been Kendrick's
relaxed album and shouldn't have delved so much 		4.0
04.21.24
Madvillain Madvillainy
There is a particularly great symbiosis between DOOM's vocal deliveries and Madlib's intricate
instrumentals that is found quite often on this and makes for solid bangers. I do have to say
the variety there primarily comes from Madlib's side as I found in those moments that work best
DOOM's delivery tends to be quite self similar, but in isolation it is impeccable and his voice
certainly carries quite some pathos. I do find there are some moments that could use a bit of
trimming with excessively long interludey passages, and au contraire some of the greater
segments feel short lived and could ha		4.5
04.21.24
Nujabes Hydeout Productions 2nd Collection
Much like I remember from years and years ago, this is a solid compilation with coherence that really could make it an album of mostly B tier, with a substantial number of A tier and a minute amount of S tier Nujabes material, with the caveat that it benefits less from familiarity bias than Metaphorical Music does. Damn it I have to resort to rating albums from the awful car JBL sound now. 4.1		4.0
04.12.24
Silent Whale Becomes a Dream North
The first track is clearly superior and has some beautiful strings and some epic moments, although I find the way the guitars are produced to be a bit under the standard of the rest. The track does overextend but is all in all solid. 2 is much more by the book whilst having an even more grating prod in my opinion, and so it dropped my rating a fair bit. It's not bad but it's not a record I would really come back to except maybe the first two thirds of the first track. The art is very pretty though. 3.5		3.5
04.04.24
BRUIT The Machine Is Burning...
Now I don't recall a single thing from the starter EP, but based on the EP it seems I was more excited about it than I was about this. This is very well crafted, has diverse instrumentation and rich production, good transitions, and a varied sound within post-rock, but I do feel it misses grandiose moments. I still feel like the tracks kind of die out at times. It is always good, but I was never captivated. 1 is not fantastic but does display the aforementioned diversity well, 2 is without doubt my favourite of the lot with its more acoustic sound and its strings, 3 is much more electronic and feels like it would be a great album opener more 		3.5
04.04.24

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  • Pennywise_M Looking forward to know your thoughts on Lunar Vacation's LP. Read your soundoffs on their EPs and it got me wondering. I know this is fairly random but yeah haha
    October 18 10:32 PM
  • alamo https://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=460615
    June 16 11:48 PM
  • robertsona s***s too easy you just gotta post a million times. and have a song as a good as "aqua gorilla"
    January 4 05:01 PM
  • GhandhiLion https://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=445237 | I should have mentioned this to you sooner. Sequel to the Selebeyone album.
    January 2 08:25 PM
  • robertsona new goodfight is a mess but good, check it
    December 27 10:13 PM

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