Dope intro, and then when the full beat kicks in I can't help but move. Not sure how it can be both energetic and laid back, but it gets both sides and makes them into a sphere. The tone of "fuck around and catch a hot one to yo temple, hoe" is wonderful. And Ferg, as usual, brings the weird and wild to end the track. I want to see a bulletproof vest made out of chinchilla. Nothing on here makes me want to kick down entire skyscrapers a la RAMPAGE the way that his song "RICKY" did, but it is a good ass album of hot beats and fun little wordplay. Makes me feel like a tough guy, which is half of the reason to even listen to rap - bump this in my car and feel very tough as I fetch some groceries at Randall's.
Font - Strange Burden. Well, that is disappointing. These guys popped onto the radar by being a late add to ACL a year or two ago, but at the time they just had one track. That one - "Sentence I" - was a pretty fun blast of Parquet Courts/ Vampire Weekend guitarist/Strokes/spoken poetry/Anthony Keidis/more cowbell/ rock and roll. 60k streams.
" Font, an Austin-based band made up of Thom Waddill, Jack Owens, Anthony Lawrence, Roman Parnell, and Logan Wagner. Font began playing shows regularly in the beginning of 2022." The problem here is that the rest of the album is no where near as good as that original track. It can sound charming and catchy for fleeting moments, and then they seem to feel the need to muddy it up with unpleasantness. I don't care for it.
Jack White - No Name. Hell yes. This is exactly what I need. Sloppy, loud, brawny, unrepentant rock and damn roll. I have a ticket to his show here in Austin in April or May, and am psyched to hear him do this stuff out loud. Will need to make sure my earplugs are up to the task beforehand! This feels like he intentionally went back to the studio on a mission to get back to basics and stop playing around with conceptual stuff. This is just bashing drums and wailing guitar. Like, "Old Scratch Blues" could have easily been a White Stripes track and it is unmistakable who is playing that guitar. Annoyingly, the stream counts are very low for it - everyone is listening to stupid F-1 Trillion instead. Top track is "That's How I'm Feeling," with 6.1 million streams and quite a bit of recent radio play.
Absolfreakinglutely. My wife likely hates it, but inject that into my jugular with the needle from Pulp Fiction immediately. "Bombing Out" is unchained too. The whole disc has that same loud and proud swagger and it rules.
Post Malone - F-1 Trillion. On the one hand, I actually dig the name of the album. That makes me grin. But my God this music is terrible. I had a friend who generally has good music taste tell me last fall about how this was a really good album, and now I know that I must be mortal enemies with this man. Almost every song has a massively popular co-star - Dolly, Hank, Paisley, Combs, McGraw, Wallen, Shelton, Stapleton, Strings, Roll - and yet every song just breaks my heart for the crushing awfulness of these generic arrangements and idiotic lyrics. That being said, I enjoyed Strings' part in "MEXICO." I haven't looked, but I'm guessing the Morgan Wallen tune will be winning the stream contest. I'M SO GOOD! It actually makes me pleased to see how badly this album is doing with streaming. 18 songs, and only five crack 50 million, with 11 at or under 30 million. But the Wallen track, complete with lots of that annoying Post Malone vibrato, fires up 891.3 million streams.
TEAWMWAWRK MUCKZ DA DRIIWURR HELL IHAASSA HELL! This disc has lots going against it in my mind, so it was going to be a heavy lift to be successful for me, but when you destroy even the classics like Hank and Dolly and the new classics like Stapleton and Strings, then you are not my friend.
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