Album Review: Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
“At times, the album may step one foot too far into that abyss, but billy woods and ELUCID are still operating at another level of genius entirely for the vast majority of We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, and at this point in their careers, one hand could count the number of living writers (in any medium, frankly) operating on the same level and with the same consistency.”
Album Review: JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES
“For better or worse, SCARING THE HOES is as its cover implies: an album of JPEGMAFIA’s ecclectic artistry placed front and center, with Danny Brown inserted imperfectly to the side in ways that fail to make proper use of his talents.”
Album Review: Black Country, New Road - For the first time
“When a work of art as anomalous as this appears out of nowhere, our instinctive response is to retreat into the realm of what is familiar, trying to make sense of the new using what we already know and understand. For the first time challenges with its very existence the validity of that approach, asking the listener to trust that something that appears utterly alien can simultaneously offer both immediate enjoyment and a staggering depth for those who wish to venture further into unknown territory.”
A Quick One: Slauson Malone - Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak)
“This is not a straightforward work of art, nor is it a hopeful one, yet Malone’s stripped-down collection of recapitulations is nonetheless compelling in its blatant need to exist. Even without an optimistic conclusion, the act of baring his soul has clearly let him make some sort of peace with his recurring antagonist; that the record still has so much to offer from a musical perspective is merely a consequence of untempered genius.”
