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What albums will you be listening to?
Genius List: https://genius.com/Genius-february-2019-album-release-calendar-annotated 2/1 38 Spesh - The 38 Strategies of Raw - 0/11 American Authors - Seasons - 5/10 Ashley All Day - Plug Diaries - 0/6 Astronoid - Astronoid - 1/9 Beirut - Gallipoli - 1/12 Big Wild - Superdream - 0/12 Boy Harsher - Careful - 1/10 Broods - Don't Feed the Pop Monster - 5/12 Busted - Half Way There - 4/10 Cassadee Pope - stages - 3/11 Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready - 3/10 Choker - TBA - 0/3 Claire Richards - My Wildest Dreams (Deluxe) - 3/15 Deer Tick - Mayonnaise - 0/13 Elujay - Adojio - 2/7 Funambulista - El Observatorio - 0/11 Highasakite - Uranium Heart - 4/11 G Herbo & Southside - Still Swervin - 1/15 Gabriella Rose - Lost In Translation - 2/6 Jazzy Amra - AMRA John Powell - How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 1/18 Kimberose - Chapter One (Deluxe Edition) - 8/17 Le Butcherettes - bi/MENTAL - 3/13 Luis Fonsi - VIDA - 15/15 Mandolin Orange - Tides of a Teardrop - 2/10 Metallica - Helping Hands... Live & Acoustic at the Masonic (Live album) - 0/12 Nina Nesbitt - The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change - 6/13 Offset Jim - No Pressure - 0/8 Q Da Fool & Kenny Beats - Bad Influence - EP - 2/6 Set It Off - Midnight - 5/15 Soen - Lotus - 2/9 The Score - Pressure - EP - 3/? The Specials - Encore - 2/10 Tyler Carter - Moonshine - 4/13 White Lies - FIVE - 4/9 Within Temptation - Resist - 6/10
Hiphop DX: https://hiphopdx.com/release-dates?month=2 People Under The Stairs - Sincerely, The P Mozzy & Berner - Slimey Individualz Czarface & Ghostface Killah- Czarface Meets Ghostface Lil Pump - Harverd Dropout
9. "RE: Emily King is supposed to have a new album out" In response to Reply # 6
I've been playing the E.King heavy since yesterday. Maybe not as strong as the Seven EP, but still really nice. She's playing here in May, gonna have to check the show.
I think im going to start going through any album i want to check out first then go back and try to listen to the rest. im falling behind.
Definitely need to check out OKPs Small Pro and Sean Price project, 86 Witness. nothing else really jumps out at me, maybe ill see whats in the deluxe harlan & alondra.
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2/6 IZ*ONE - 好きと言わせたい (I Want To Say I Like You) - 1/4 Lucky Daye - II - 1/4
2/7 Aja - BOX Office - 1/15 Krishu & Mike Hector - Falconer - EP - 5/5 ONF - We Must Love - 5/5
2/8 7eventh Time Down - Brand New Day - 4/10 AJ Tracey - AJ Tracey - 15/15 Ariana Grande - thank u, next - 12/12 August Burns Red - Phantom Sessions - 4/5 Be Forest - Knocturne - 3/9 Boston George & Slim Thug - Big Bad Boston and the Boss - 0/7 Buddy - Harlan & Alondra - 16/16 Busted - Half Way There - 10/10 Cass McCombs - Tip of the Sphere - 14/14 Choker - Forever & A Few - 3/3 El Bebeto - Mi Persona Preferida - 0/12 Emarosa - Peach Club - 8/11 Jah Cure - Royal Soldier - 4/16 Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs - 1/9 Lara Fabian - Papillon - 2/11 LCD Soundsystem - Electric Lady Sessions - 12/12 machineheart - PEOPLE CHANGE - 3/11 MASTAMIIND - DO YOU MIIND?! - 3/11 Mavis Staples - Live in London - 0/14 Meghan Trainor - THE LOVE TRAIN - EP - 6/6 Mercury Rev - Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited - 5/12 Panda Bear - Buoys - 9/9 Pet Shop Boys - Agenda - 4/4 Qveen Herby - EP 5 - 5/5 Said The Whale - Cascadia - 2/12 Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows - Death & Flamingos - 0/10 Various Artists - Music Inspired By the Film Roma - 15/15 Various Artists - The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 8/10 Ward Thomas - Restless Minds - 15/15 Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y - 2009 - 1/14 Xiu Xiu - Girl with Basket of Fruit - 9/9 Yak - Pursuit of Momentary Happiness - 0/11
to be honest im not big into sean p, i havent heard a whole lot. really enjoyed it though. the beats are really good and sean p is good too. i listened to the guilty simpson small pro album yesterday and that was great. i think small pro did great making beats that fit each rapper.
14. "Really enjoyed the Bob Mould and Sean P ones" In response to Reply # 12
The Mould album is low key insulting, it's a bunch of songs with titles like "Sunshine and Warmth and Summertime" and it's been below zero all day here.
86 Witness is a solid mixtape with Sean P doing what he did best, and the whole thing checks in at maybe a half hour, worth checking out if you at all liked his music.
2009 was fine, I'm just never going to think Wiz is anything better than okay.
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Chaka Khan?? India.Arie?? might check those out. maybe papoose too. this year has started off slow or i have missed the great albums.
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What albums will you be listening to?
Genius List: https://genius.com/Genius-february-2019-album-release-calendar-annotated 2/11 Adam Calhoun & Demun Jones - Crazy White Boy - EP - 5/5 Bones & Eddy Baker - SparrowsCreek - 9/10 ITZY - IT'Z DIFFERENT - 1/2 TST - Wake Up TAEMIN - WANT - 7/7 Yung Garzi - I'll meet you in hell - 2/2
2/12 The Black Skirts - THIRSTY - 12/12 Numenorean - Adore - 0/10
2/13 Berner & Mozzy - Slimey Individualz - 3/10 DREAMCATCHER - The End of Nightmare - 6/6 Hong Dae Kwang - Inside Wants - 6/6 Sik-K (Korean) - ADDICT - 2/2 Various Artists - Pornhub Valentine's Day Album - EP - 3/6
2/14 24hrs - Valentino Twenty - 15/15 August Alsina - Forever and a Day - 8/8 Copeland - Blushing - 11/11 Joey Graceffa - Kingdom - EP - 1/5 Kid Buu - Blind For Love2 - 6/6 Robert Ellis - Texas Piano Man - 2/11 Samaria - Adventures of Lovergirl Part. 1 - 2/8 Slim Thug - Suga Daddy Slim: On Tha Prowl - 0/10 Trinidad Cardona - LOVE - EP - 1/5 Young Buck - Box of Chocolates - 0/7 Yung Bleu - Bleu Vandross 2 - 7/7
2/15 1K Phew - What's Understood - 2/7 A Boogie wit da Hoodie - A Boogie v.s. Artist - 0/4 Anemone - Beat My Distance - 2/9 Avantasia - Moonglow - 4/12 Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water - 12/12 Baby Goth - Baby Goth - 7/7 Betty Who - Betty - 13/13 Broken Social Scene - Let's Try the After (Vol. 1) - 1/5 Casanova & 30 Roc - Free At Last - 1/6 Chaka Khan - Hello Happiness - 2/7 Copeland - Blushing - 11/11 Crystal Lake - HELIX - 12/12 CZARFACE & Ghostface Killah - CZARFACE Meets Ghostface - 1/12 Dead Obies - DEAD. - 2/11 Dear Seattle - Don't Let Go - 2/11 Famous Dex - Wave Creator Florida Georgia Line - Can't Say I Ain't Country - 6/19 FRANKIE - STA7GES EP - 6/8 Hayes Carll - What It Is - 12/12 Heartstreets - Why Make Sense - 2/11 Homeshake - Helium - 5/13 Hot Flash Heat Wave - Mood Ring - 3/6 India.Arie - Worthy - 1/16 Jared & The Mild - This Story Is No Longer Available - 4/16 J.S. Ondara - Tales of America - 2/11 Kayla Brianna - Girl Talk - 4/12 Ladytron - Ladytron - 3/13 Lucki - Freewave 3 - 4/15 Natti Natasha - ilumiNATTI - 17/17 Olltii - Obvious Money Talk - 8/8 ONE OK ROCK - Eye of the Storm - 2/13 Papoose - Underrated - 3/12 Picture This - MDRN LV - 2/12 Pi'erre Bourne - The Life of Pi'erre 4 Project Pat, Keak Da Sneak, Kafani - Lean and Cookies Quinn XCII - From Michigan With Love - 12/12 Rotting Christ - The Heretics - 2/10 RY X - Unfurl - 6/13 Ryan Bingham - American Love Song - 1/15 Sir Babygirl - Crush on Me - 9/9 SWMRS - Berkeley's On Fire - 2/10 Yann Tiersen - ALL - 0/11 XYLØ - pretty sad - 1/6
18. "Is this a Young Buck Valentine's Day album?" In response to Reply # 17 Fri Feb-15-19 11:08 AM by Marauder21
>Young Buck - Box of Chocolates - 0/7
Meaning to check out Czarface/Ghostface and Broken Social Scene, but this just shot right to the top, because I can't even imagine what this would sound like.
EDIT, made it in two songs and had to give up. It's Young Buck crying over autotune and it is BAD. Not even bad in a fun way.
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20. "berner, casanova & chaka" In response to Reply # 17
berner was okay. i had not heard of him before last year. i was impressed by his album last year but that quickly faded on repeat listens. he seems to always get a decent list of features. sadly the features are usually way better than him. only song i would really recommend listening to is touchdown. there are couple other okay ones. over all 3/5
casanova was pretty bad. the beats are okay the rapping isnt horrible but its nothing special. block me song about being blocked on instagram was as bad a listen as i thought it would be. 2.5/5
chaka khan was okay. i can see some songs getting more spins. i think this album begs for a rap remix version. isnt that enough beat is pretty good. 3.5/5
21. "CZARFACE Meets Ghostface" In response to Reply # 17
i liked this. the first half was really good. the second half way okay. a lot of the songs in the second half switch up and that doesnt always work. some songs start of kind of boring but then get pretty good, others start off good then get worse on the switch up. 4/5
favorite songs Iron Claw Czarrcade '87 Masked Superstars
23. "india.arie and papoose" In response to Reply # 17
india.arie was hit or miss. some really good stuff, some mediocre stuff. she stays woke but unfortunately i think her songs with messages dont work. i dont know if shes switching her singing style but those songs just did not hit for me. her love songs were pretty good though. 3.5/5
favorite songs: Steady Love That Magic
papoose was okay. better than i expected. he was kind of hit or miss too. there some song styles i just couldnt get with and others were kind of good. nothing great on it but some good songs. 3.5/5
this is going to be a "words into action" post. i need to publicly state that i'm going to listen to these in order to make it happen
>Berner & Mozzy - Slimey Individualz - 3/10
i'm expecting a lot of kind of bad bay area beats and lackluster bars from berner, offset by high quality vivid lyricism from mozzy
>Casanova & 30 Roc - Free At Last - 1/6
30 roc is a great producer. he's responsible for some very good instrumentals over the past few years, including some fantastic beats that yachty somehow got a hold of and didn't make the most of. i'll stomach cas for some good 30 roc
>Famous Dex - Wave Creator
listening to see how far he fell off and if bighead is still fucking with him
>Lucki - Freewave 3 - 4/15
lucki is capable of incredible highs ("root of all," most of /x/, random verses on YT only cuts) but he's been phoning it in lately. hopefully he can pull it together on this. 4 chasethemoney beats is a huge bonus AND he got an earl sweatshirt beat AND feature. hoping lucki won't disappoint
>Pi'erre Bourne - The Life of Pi'erre 4
listening for the beats. he generally gives his best stuff to carti and nudy but occasionally saves the cool instrumentals for himself. he's not at all a compelling vocalist so it's going to be a chore to make it through the whole thing
26. "reviews" In response to Reply # 24 Tue Feb-19-19 03:23 AM by bearfield
>>Berner & Mozzy - Slimey Individualz - 3/10 > >i'm expecting a lot of kind of bad bay area beats and >lackluster bars from berner, offset by high quality vivid >lyricism from mozzy
Pretty much exactly this. Mozzy sounds amazing at the top of the project. Delivery, pocket, patterns, lyricism are all top tier. I think Berner's problem is that he conflates being cool and being bored. As a person who raps professionally he's technically fine but his delivery holds him back. If he can't fake being interested in rapping these words he took so long to come up with then I can't be bothered to listen. Maybe it's a stylistic choice that he has not quite fully harnessed and/or developed. The instrumentals on this project are both varied and not great but Mozzy manages to sounds good on most of them. The album is loaded with features which is rarely a good sign. B-Real sounds out of place with his sharp staccato flow over smooth G-Funk. Logic attempts to stunt on us with rap showmanship but we don't care. Wiz sounds like he's there for the check. Very forgettable project but I might go back for some Mozzy verses. The best part of this project is that I get to hear Mozzy over more non-JuneOnnaBeat instrumentals and that's the only thing I've ever wanted from Mozzy.
>>Casanova & 30 Roc - Free At Last - 1/6 > >30 roc is a great producer. he's responsible for some very >good instrumentals over the past few years, including some >fantastic beats that yachty somehow got a hold of and didn't >make the most of. i'll stomach cas for some good 30 roc
Spotify lists a lot of people that aren't 30Roc as producers on this project. I can't pick out much that sounds like 30Roc. From what I know of his past works, he has a keen ear for samples and unconventional sounds that makes his instrumentals stand out. This sounds like 30Roc being instructed to make "type" beats. Very generic stuff on here, and not even particularly well-made generic stuff. I do not want to hear someone as brolic and steet as Casanova rapping in autotune about how a woman blocked him on social media. He sounds a lot like Busta on "Steppin Out." He sounds like 69 on "Relapse." He sounds desperate for a song of his to get some buzz throughout the whole project. NYC is so washed.
>>Famous Dex - Wave Creator > >listening to see how far he fell off and if bighead is still >fucking with him
This didn't come out.
>>Lucki - Freewave 3 - 4/15 > >lucki is capable of incredible highs ("root of all," most of >/x/, random verses on YT only cuts) but he's been phoning it >in lately. hopefully he can pull it together on this. 4 >chasethemoney beats is a huge bonus AND he got an earl >sweatshirt beat AND feature. hoping lucki won't disappoint
Lucki delivers a mixed bag as always. He kind of does the same thing on every song with slight variations in flow. He's a piece of trash but he's cognizant of it but he also won't change. Basically the same theme he was exploring on his early tapes but now it's about relationships and detractors instead of bussin juugs from the window. It seems like he is "in the booth, tellin' the truth," à la Young Nudy, meaning a lot of freestyling and punching in. Possibly because of this I haven't caught too many good lines on this thing which is something Lucki generally delivers on. The beats are mostly serviceable but sometimes not particularly fitting. Lucki is mixed really high on some of these songs, usually way above the beat, and this is a little distracting. He works better when he's "in" the beat and you have to lean in a little to pick out his words. He's not doing his usual painting of vivid impressionistic vignettes on this tape and I exactly can't figure out why. Something about this isn't working and I think it's Lucki.
There are however some fantastic instrumentals on here. "Glory Boy" sounds like someone added trap drums to a Delarosa & Asora song or a Prefuse73 interlude (same thing?); "2012 Summer" sounds like a Chicago underground take on Drake's "Jaded." Lucki sounds very good over these different kinds of sound beds. I hope he goes in that direction in the future and gets back to writing more often because his current technique is not allowing him to deliver the highest quality product.
>>Pi'erre Bourne - The Life of Pi'erre 4 > >listening for the beats. he generally gives his best stuff to >carti and nudy but occasionally saves the cool instrumentals >for himself. he's not at all a compelling vocalist so it's >going to be a chore to make it through the whole thing
25. "Running that India.Arie..." In response to Reply # 0
Steady Love and In Good Trouble are on repeat. Also giving People Under The Stairs lots rotations. My favorite album of the year, thus far. I almost ashamed to admit that I've never given them burn before now.
2/22 Alex Wiley - Tangerine Dream II - 12/12 Attila - Villain - 10/10 Badflower - OK, I'M SICK - 13/13 Bayonne - Drastic Measures - 2/10 Bellows - The Rose Gardener - 4/13 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Live Brotha Lynch Hung - Torment - 0/8 Candlemass - The Door to Doom - 1/8 Christopher - Under The Surface - 8/8 Clear Soul Forces - Still - 1/11 Cyrille Aimée - Move On: A Sondheim Adventure - 0/14 D. L. Blando - Mad World - 8/8 Delain - Hunter's Moon - 9/14 Diplo - Europa - EP - 6/6 Dream Theater - Distance Over Time - 9/9 Drenge - Strange Creatures - 2/10 Du Blonde - Lung Bread for Daddy - 1/12 ELHAE - TROUBLE IN PARADISE - 13/13 eli. (US) - the way we used to love. - 6/17 Eric Bellinger - The ReBirth 2 - 32/32 Giggs - BIG BAD... - 11/18 grandson - a modern tragedy vol. 2 - 5/5 Gunna - Drip or Drown 2 - 16/16 Heijara - Thread of Gold - 0/9 Higher Brothers - Five Stars - 3/14 Hilltop Hoods - The Great Expanse - 13/13 Jetty Bones - Hyphen - 3/5 Julia Jacklin - Crushing - 10/10 Kehlani - While We Wait - 9/9 Kerli - Shadow Works - 3/12 Lil Pump - Harverd Dropout - 16/16 Lily & Madeleine - Canterbury Girls - 10/10 Louis Futon - Way Back When - 5/14 Mabel - Don't Call Me Up (Remixes) - EP - 1/5 Matthew Logan Vasquez - Light'n Up - 1/9 Menor Menor - Trinity La Marca - 16/16 Night Lovell - Good Night Lovell - 18/18 Offset - Father of 4 - 16/16 Overkill - The Wings of War - 0/10 Piezas & Jayder - Panorámica (Acantilado I) - 10/10 Raja Kumari - BLOODLINE - EP - 2/5 Rhapsody of Fire - The Eighth Mountain - 1/12 Roses Gabor - Fantasy & Facts - 4/11 Sleaford Mods - Eton Alive - 0/12 Smif N Wessun - The All - 3/12 Synodic X - Poems By Otto - EP - 6/6 The Claypool Lennon Delirium - South Of Reality - 9/9 Thouxanbanfauni & UnoTheActivist - For Christ Sake 2 - 14/14 Tyla Yaweh - Heart Full of Rage - 10/10 Various Artists - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Soundtrack From & Inspired by the Motion Picture) - 15/15 Yola - Walk Through Fire - 12/12 Yung Tory - Rastar - 3/14
Metacritic list: https://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date?view=detailed Cochemea Gastelum - All My Relations Feels - Post Earth Gary Clark, Jr. - This Land James Yorkston - The Route To The Harmonium Julia Jacklin - Crushing Last In Line - II Martin Frawley - Undone At 31 Murray A. Lightburn - Hear Me Out Telekinesis - Effluxion The Gloaming - The Gloaming 3 Vandoliers - Forever
29. "lol thats mostly been me this year" In response to Reply # 28
last year i was so open to the new music, im starting reject it again. give me more boom bap. i will start skipping songs when im listening to albums now. i kind of still want to listen to every album that comes out but its not realistic.
33. "that's weird because i think he's doing too much offset rapping" In response to Reply # 30 Fri Feb-22-19 02:55 PM by bearfield
i like the reflective songs at the top of the album but somewhere in the middle he wanders back into standard offset-in-the-migos rapping. that stuff is most interesting when contrasted with a less technically proficient rapper like quavo or 21. when it's just offset it's not as enjoyable. the beats are good but fairly samey. there is a uniform gloom and warble to many of the songs, which runs its course by the middle of the album then keeps going
45. "finally listened to it" In response to Reply # 28
its not bad but its just soooo repetitive. basically one single pattern of rapping and beats. i dont know if its getting stale to their fans but i think it has for me.
47. "Could be the reason why their solo missions haven't gone too well..." In response to Reply # 45
> i dont know if its getting stale to their fans but i think it has for me.
Listening to them solo is not as enjoyable as their ensemble work. And to those of us older cats who have enjoyed their music, maybe they are just phasing out.
I legit didn't go back to this after i left it alone to spend last Friday listening to BDP.
48. "i listened to my 2019 playlist on my drive at lunch" In response to Reply # 47
a few songs from the album came on and they hit better in the car. i think the style is too good but here and there. a whole project with this same sound is no good.
34. "Gary Clark, Jr. "This Land"" In response to Reply # 27
It's a lot longer than I expected (17 tracks, including 2 bonus tracks). He pretty much stays in the same lane he's always been. He tries to blend a lot of different genres into this album.
I wasn't prepared for "This Land" when I heard it. But it's a great way to kick off this album.
I actually have thought that he hits target with his straight up R&B efforts. "You Saved Me" and "Down To Ride" off previous albums are really good R&B songs. This album solidifies my thinking. "Don't Wait Til Tomorrow" is my favorite track right now.
38. "This is why I've kind of given up on him:" In response to Reply # 34
> > It's a lot longer than I expected (17 tracks, including 2 >bonus tracks). He pretty much stays in the same lane he's >always been. He tries to blend a lot of different genres into >this album. >
He tries to do everything on every album. I was really surprised (in a good way) by "This Land" but I'm already exhausted at just the thought of a 17 track tour through countless genres of music.
41. "I can't really blame you even though I enjoyed the album" In response to Reply # 38
>> >> It's a lot longer than I expected (17 tracks, including 2 >>bonus tracks). He pretty much stays in the same lane he's >>always been. He tries to blend a lot of different genres >into >>this album. >> > >He tries to do everything on every album. I was really >surprised (in a good way) by "This Land" but I'm already >exhausted at just the thought of a 17 track tour through >countless genres of music.
It's very much an effort to be a little bit of all things to all people. I can't deny that. If you ever do give the album a listen, come back & let us know what you think.
2/27 BOYFRIEND - Bouquet - 1/11 Kang Min Kyung - Kang Min Kyung Vol. 1 - 6/6 Mereba - The Jungle Is the Only Way Out - 8/13 Park Yoochun - TBA T-Pain - 1UP - 12/12
2/28 Ha Sung Woon - My Moment - 5/5 Lil Skies - LS2
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