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Risque by Chic

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Risqué is the third studio album by American disco band Chic, released on Atlantic Records on July...

Bobby Tarantino II by Logic

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Bobby Tarantino II is the sixth mixtape by American rapper and musician Logic. It was released...

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Robert Lindsay (9 KP) rated A Modern Tragedy Vol 2 by Grandson in Music

May 26, 2019

All killer, no filler (2 more)

Extremely heavy and modern sounding

Leaves me craving to see them live

Politicising may discourage some (0 more)

Razor sharp rock and hip-hop fusion

Discovered at random while searching for Rock music released this year, Grandson managed to be heavy and thrilling, while also utilising modern production techniques more usually associated with hip hop and electronic music, the fusion is excellent.
There are five tracks on this EP and each has a distinctive flavour. Apologize is a swaggering endorsement of the self, warts and all, which every listener can adopt as their own personal anthem. Stigmata is a full on, head down rocker that no doubt sets mosh pits ablaze. Is This What You Wanted is a searing enditement of facing the grinding misery of the world, compared with escaping it via indulgence and excess, slower than its predecessors but no less furious. Falling is a tripped out meditation on struggling with addiction. Darkside is the take of a would - be school shooter that drips with menace until it finally drops, when it becomes openly hostile.

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James Koppert (2698 KP) rated Construct by Archivist in Music

Nov 26, 2019

Construct by Archivist

2017 | Experimental, Metal, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

8.0

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Post metal concept album sounds terrible but actually it's not

Ads you may have noticed despite being a Hip Hop artist and mainly listening to Hip Hop I do love all music, if it good, I'll bang it through my speakers. However I must admit, although i love hardcore, metal is not my favourite genre.

This was recommended to me and the description sounded horrific, it is a sci fi concept album mixing shoe gazer with blast beats and songs getting to the ten minute mark. Yeah, terrible right? Well actually its really damn good. Parts of the album remind me of Belligerent Declaration where dark atmospheric slow meandering showcase, builds up the atmosphere before going full sonic heavy on your ears without ever destroying the feeling its creates. Its rare to listen to a song clocking over 8 minutes and then rewind it to listen again but I did.

Now I need to get their new one and watch out for them live.

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Olajide Olatunji recommended track Downtown by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis in This Unruly Mess I've Made by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis in Music (curated)

This Unruly Mess I've Made by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

2016 | Rhythm And Blues

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Downtown by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

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"My favourite video of all time is actually for James Blake’s A Case Of You, the one that has Rebecca Hall in it – I can’t watch it without my entire body shaking. But, for what a video really, really should be, for pure Thriller-like entertainment value, you can’t get much better than the video by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis for Downtown. The dancing! The marching! The mopeds! The chariots! You have to give in to that video – how ridiculous it is. It played a lot with hip-hop culture – and I love hip-hop culture, I love the bigness, the grandness, the showing-off-ness of it, I appreciate it and I revel in it. But there’s something about these guys mocking the extravagance of it that I really responded to. It really made me laugh – I was in tears watching it. And actually I think you can see Macklemore pissing himself laughing at the end… Ryan Lewis, who produces the records, produced and directed the video. Epic."

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