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| 4.3 superb | owl beanie EMERITUS | September 18th 21 |
throwing caution to the same wind that takes us to the other place
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| 4.0 excellent | Daneleslie | September 15th 21 |
Injury Reserve have tapped into something incredible here. I need to let this really sink in.
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| 4.5 superb | Gene Gol CONTRIBUTOR | September 28th 21 |
this is what it feels like when you need to cry but are physically incapable of. truly the sound of struggle bubbling up inside you finally getting out in one chaotic breakdown.
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| 5.0 classic | XSebbyMcMuffinX | October 24th 21 |
"I don't think they get it." "And you if don't, then there's something wrong, up here in your noggin." The prison complex slave force is having trouble keeping up with the increasing forest fires. People have been taking to the streets because of incongruence between politics and the need for representation. People are overdosing on pills in droves from a depressive disconnection; a lack of consequence. Society exists in disassociation; It's in our structures. These are the rational ramblings of well-meaning men.
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| 3.6 great | Erwann S. STAFF | September 20th 21 |
A unique listen for real. Hip hop and rap are but ghosts here, dying memories of what once was. Scary, disturbing shit. Can't say I *love* this but gotta respek.
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| 4.5 superb | Scoot | September 15th 21 |
yeezus took acid on his way down south
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| 3.5 great | lz41 | May 17th 24 |
Injury Reserve never lets the audience settle into a rhythm across the disruptive journey of "...Phoenix". It is a soundscape as murky, dangerous and unsettling as its album artwork.
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| 5.0 classic | LikeWindOnANipple | September 1st 23 |
Things Fall Apart: The Too Real Version. An impossibly dense and effecting piece of art. I can't avoid viewing this as a classic without short handing myself.
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| 3.0 good | birdmusiclog | January 5th 22 |
2021. They didn't have to do any of this. In great modern music, the composition of the work is mostly symbolic. Made of an arrangement of styles rather than notes or feelings. And often, the music's style is just what the composer WANTED it to be. But the person who wanted this is dead. So why does it exist? Because the need to create it had to go somewhere. With an underlying constant of performers taking up an impossible task, filling shoes that aren't theirs, this work is an honest one, a funny one, a dark one, and a hopeful one.
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| 3.0 good | ajcollins15 | September 22nd 21 |
Well the new Injury Reserve album has finally dropped nearly a year after Stepa J. Groggs death the band has released their sophomore record and it is a bit of a doozie. Honestly, I have been reviewing music for the last four years and have been an avid music fan since middle school, so I have listened to a lot of music in my life, and I have listened to a lot of experimental music in my life. This new Injury Reserve album is honestly the most challenging album I have listened to yet. Nothing about the album is conventional in rap at all, or glitch-hop for that matter. This album is the definition of hell in a sentence. But sometimes this album takes it way too far because there are various tracks that are just unlistenable to me. For example, ?Top Picks for You? is one of the most boring experimental rap tracks I have heard in a while that is so overblown with production that I honestly can?t sit through it. But there are also some huge highlights throughout the album like the single ?Superman That? which is one of the best glitch-hop tracks I have heard ever and ?Smoke Don?t Clear? might be the definition of a deconstructed rap bagger. But overall, this is an okay record with a lot of exploration on it, but some of it I can?t sit through.
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| 4.0 excellent | charlopiano | September 17th 21 |
Dude, I wasn't crazy about the IR debut, but man, from the first note, it's really something special, my attention kinda went away for a good part of it, but I'm sure after multiple listens, this'll get better.
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| 4.5 superb | Jake | September 15th 21 |
Hard to imagine this album sounding any other way. The fog of grief weighs heavy.
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| 5.0 classic | Musefan58867 | September 15th 21 |
It's the love child of Scott Walker's The Drift, The Flaming Lips' The Terror, David Bowie's Blackstar, Death Grips' Year of the Snitch, and Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition. It's amazing.
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| 3.0 good | Mojito | August 19th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | platttt | July 29th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | A.R.O. STAFF | July 7th 24 |
| 2.5 average | Uzumaki | September 29th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Merlijn | September 9th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh-D | September 6th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Glovoc | April 13th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Prole | February 24th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | iGuter | June 9th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Oatus | May 18th 22 |
| 3.5 great | LOGOS | May 1st 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | KaiDare | April 20th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Santet | February 20th 22 |
| 3.5 great | sncold | February 10th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | rjm9928 | February 3rd 22 |
| 2.5 average | Skoj | January 31st 22 |
| 3.0 good | Mac | January 19th 22 |
| 3.5 great | po0ty | January 12th 22 |
| 2.5 average | Pangea | January 9th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Pvzuzu | January 9th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | gschwen | January 8th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | gilly | January 2nd 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oobaloo | December 30th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Lalka | December 30th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | December 24th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | furpa | December 22nd 21 |
| 3.5 great | DANcore | December 21st 21 |
| 4.5 superb | MvdW | December 19th 21 |
| 2.0 poor | Zakusz | December 16th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | bnest | December 8th 21 |
| 3.8 excellent | Atari STAFF | December 6th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | treakzy | November 25th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Trebor. EMERITUS | November 23rd 21 |
| 3.5 great | Feels | November 5th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Luna | October 18th 21 |
| 2.5 average | samsid | October 16th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | Sam C. | October 13th 21 |
| 3.5 great | ckssr1 | October 11th 21 |
| 3.5 great | bharry | October 10th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | jsredna | October 10th 21 |
| 2.0 poor | cvlts | October 4th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | ARDCWE | October 2nd 21 |
| 3.0 good | Royl123 | September 29th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | SadLad | September 27th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Suyan | September 26th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | athul | September 26th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | tellah | September 26th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Henry | September 25th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Isob3l | September 24th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gillie | September 24th 21 |
| 3.0 good | rc239 | September 24th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Emo | September 24th 21 |
| 2.0 poor | Yotimi | September 24th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | proscett | September 24th 21 |
| 2.5 average | jmh886 | September 23rd 21 |
| 2.5 average | Runeii | September 23rd 21 |
| 5.0 classic | sicrvat | September 22nd 21 |
| 2.0 poor | Zeneren | September 22nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Prancer | September 22nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | chwe | September 22nd 21 |
| 1.5 very poor | Thuckabe | September 21st 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | jlsg | September 21st 21 |
| 4.5 superb | borris | September 20th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sowing STAFF | September 18th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Corney | September 18th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Arctick | September 18th 21 |
| 2.5 average | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | September 17th 21 |
| 2.0 poor | Asura14 | September 17th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | krazytom | September 17th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Djang0 | September 16th 21 |
| 2.5 average | MTNHDRE | September 16th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | anat CONTRIBUTOR | September 16th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | JeetJeet | September 16th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | C. Deez | September 16th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Piglet | September 16th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | JS19 | September 16th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Jots EMERITUS | September 16th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | doofy | September 16th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | aaronrkc | September 16th 21 |
| 4.8 classic | Rowan5215 EMERITUS | September 15th 21 |
| 3.0 good | NBA | September 15th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Lassie | September 15th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Risodo | September 15th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | leon486 | September 15th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | ian b | September 15th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jake E. | September 15th 21 |
| 5.0 classic | jtswope | September 15th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | luci | September 15th 21 |
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