With a bit more perspective on the year that was, I still maintain this was the song of 2017:
Category: The Food of Love
DRIP SEASON (Gunna)
My uber-analytical review of Gunna’s Drip Season 3:
Singles Roundup
Some responses — courtesy of my Twitter account — to various singles (and other stuff) released thus far in 2018:
GLOCK BOND (Key Glock)
Key Glock’s Glock Bond is an album of missed opportunities, beginning with the very first track:
AMEN (Rich Brian)
Rich Brian is a rapper from Indonesia whose sound is — at least for the most part — as distinct as the phrase “a rapper from Indonesia.”
AS SHE PLEASES (Madison Beer)
Apple Music describes Madison Beer’s As She Pleases like so: “Sultry, smoky R&B from a superstar in the making.” Though these spiels usually reek of marketing hyperbole, in this case, I couldn’t have said it better myself! May I just add, starting with some self-promotion of my own:
My Favorite Albums of 2017
I listened to 178 new albums in 2017.
This Week in Music (January 26 – February 1, Part 2): Above & Beyond’s COMMON GROUND
It’s rather fitting that Above & Beyond’s Common Ground and Migos’ Culture II were released on the same day; both albums exemplify the consistent, borderline repetitive greatness of each group.
This Week in Music (January 26 – February 1, Part 1): Migooooooos’ CULTURE II
Since both albums released this week are too good to be clumped together into a usual “This Week in Music” piece, I shall tackle each individually. First up: Culture II, the sequel to Migooooooooos’ 2017 breakthrough:
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This Week in Music: January 19-25
This week, I review — in descending order of quality — Fetty Wap’s For My Fans, Fall Out Boy’s M A N I A, and SiR’s November:
Write All Nite 