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This week Démar is on a solo mission discussing Sabrina Carpenter's sixth studio album Short n' Sweet, her underrated cheeky songwriting and her constant tug of war between pop country and pop R&B.
Démar’s rating: 6 / 10
The Love List: Good Graces, Bed Chem, Espresso, Lie To Girls, Don't SmileThe Love List: Losers, What Don't Belong to Me, I Had Some Help
P.S. Sorry for the wait, Doechii review later this week!
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Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet / 2024 / pop, pop country, pop R&B -
A quick one for Tinashe and her seventh studio album "Quantum Baby" where wonder if she's the most anonymous popstar of her generation.
TImecodes
1:50 If you are a pop head
2:34 2 on
2:56 Her tone is not distinct enough
4:12 Victoria Monet comparison
5:38 What do you think this album is missing?
5:59 People she should collab with
6:37 Zelda or Super Mario water level
9:12 Nasty is the worst song / made to be an internet song
11:13 Is this the part of the song that the artist would want you to click on
12:18 Secretly a sexy drill song
14:32 The score
14:55 She great for demo’s
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Démar’s rating: 7 / 10 Adriel’s rating: 6.5 / 10
The Love List: Thirsty, Red Flags, No Broke Boys, Cross That Line
Tinashe - Quantum Baby / 2024 / pop, drill, R&B, UK garage -
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Post Malone's sixth studio album 'F-1 Trillion', his abandonment of artistic risk and Post Malone's journey across genres.
If you want a ticket to the Polaris Prize Gala in Toronto, drop your favourite Canadian album from this year in our Insta DMs!
Démar’s rating: 3.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 6 / 10
The Love List: Losers, What Don't Belong to Me, I Had Some Help
TIMECODES:
1:59 - The lead up to F1-Trillion
3:35 - He’s been sliding from his last few projects
5:38 - Getting to a point where the production is like water
7:47 - Who is getting platformed in regard to the features
9:04 - Shaboozey feature missing
10:45 - Zach Bryan
13:09 - Pop Country
14:11 - I heard these in Canadian tire for years
14:42 - You play this in a place to acquire things
18:27 - Hip-hop didn’t accept him when he came in
21:10 - First time real life is impacting the genre an artist makes
22:04 - Hide my gun
25:33 - Losers, self-loathing is really good in country music
30:35 - What Don’t Belong to me, upbeat but not upbeat to move to
32:17 - Song structure is all the same
33:23 - For his career, this is a big win
36:28 - Drake feature comparison
40:29 - A plus for the demo doesn’t look like us
40:55 - You can’t start somewhere else and go into hip-hop
41:36 - Is he a culture vulture?
44:00 - Interview where he said you can’t be deep in hip-hop
45:54 - We kicked him out
46:52 - The cover
50:20 - The score
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Post Malone - F-1 Trillion / 2024 / pop, country, pop country -
Can't lie to y'all when we saw Drake and 100 gigs in the same sentence we thought it was over for The Boy. Instead it's a BTS data dump with songs attached. Also Rachel Gun drops one of the worst breakdancing performances in Hip-Hop history. Strap in for a weird one!
Timecodes:
1:15 Drake is someone we don’t always get the BTS
2:04 in-between what Drake should do and what we think he should do
2:38 Tin foil hat theory
4:10 Drake is the artist that would drop a documentary and everyone goes to see it
5:08 Didn’t realize he is the type of artist that records this much of his process
7:34 If he could start again, he would be a dancehall/Afrobeats artist
10:36 This guy has a knife, and I bumped his pocket
11:29 Suffering from putting out too much music
12:53 Talk up
18: 11 To see him viewing himself as MJ from the early days
20:08 The video of him in the studio talking about Too Good
22:30 Olympics
23:13 Looks bad for PHD’s
24:08 Had the audacity to dance as poorly as she did/made a joke of the culture
25:21 So bad people thought it was a bit
26:56 The internet / real or fake outrage
29:25 For you as a white person on the opposite end of the planet and make a mockery of hip-hop
33:15 Underestimation of the importance
35:27 How important/impactful Canada is to hip-hop
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Latto's third album 'Sugar Honey Iced Tea', her surprising versatility and adopting Drake and Doja Cat as influences in her music.
Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 8 / 10
The Love List: Big Mama, Blick Sum, H&M, Liquor, S/O to Me, Look What You Did
TIMECODES:
4:00 - Didn’t know she had this in her
5:57 - Golden Age of Women in Hip-hop
7:13 - Timestamp Drake record?
9:56 - Drake doing ‘Song Cry’ on every album
15:04 - Meg is in the Logic zone but Latto is not
15:31 - Blick sum
16:35 - Latto might influence me to carry a gun
17:06 - Missy Elliot comparison
18:05 - Big Mama - Drakeism
19:08 - PS1 drill
20:30 - There she go / mike jones flip
21:46 - Ear Candy
23:40 - She does stand alone on these influences
28:00 - Their favorite songs were all the samples
30:00 - Lyrics
33:24 - Fuck you with a sexual connotation
35:14 - Some of these lyrics we can’t sing along to
39:38 - Take a shot every time you hear drakes name
42:00 - She doesn’t need anyone on the hooks/features
47:00 - The cover
51:12 - The score / no skips
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Latto - Sugar Honey Iced Tea! / 2024 / hip hop, rap, drill, trap -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss Ice Spice's debut album 'Y2K!', her being more of a rage/opium artist than drill, lyrical reductionism and whether she's more celebrity than musician.
Démar’s rating: 5.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 4.5 / 10
The Love List: Phat Butt, Popa, Plenty Sun, Bitch I'm Packin'
TIMECODES:
5:35- First project of hers that people will remember
6:46 - Stand-out features
9:30 - Yeat would sound like Mob Deep on this
9:54 - Making Central Cee that type of rapper on this project
10:16 - Ice Spice is staying away from anything lyrical
15:08 - Popa and bitch I’m packing
17:15 - To see that she is capable is a plus; why does only one song connect
19:30 - Maybe drill is not the best place to be in
19:48 - BB belt
28:25 - You’re better off just rapping over the song Lil Wayne-style
30:50 - Miss Poopy Pants
31:08 - We have to talk about who Ice Spice is
36:47 - Why is she yelling
39:25 - A lot of self-awareness on this project
40:14 - How this affects her career
43:13 - That half of the album I didn’t expect that to come out of her
44:27 - Crushed by her celebrity
47:18 - Being a singles artist is more work
48:21 - She’s almost becoming what Lil Yachty was
48:49 - The cover
54:28 - The score
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Ice Spice - Y2K! / 2024 / hip hop, rap, drill, opium, rage -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss the supergroup ¥$ (Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign)'s second studio album 'Vultures 2', Kanye's juvenile lyrics, reused motifs and incomplete songs.
Démar’s rating: 2 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 5.5 / 10
The Love List: River, Field Trip
TIMECODES:
1:04 - Surprised it was going to drop/exist
2:33 - Ye in the NBA Youngboy Zone
3:05 - Vultures
4:25 - Struggle raps for almost an hour
5:30 - Ye was someone who would make an album, scrap the album, and then remake the album
7:40 - similar to White Dress
10:55 - Don’t want to say he ruined all these songs
11:42 - Ye’s lyrics are almost elementary school
12:20 - The Kanye effect
13:30 - Ye is a producer at this point
16:37 - Does it twice on this album
20:10 - Ye is in a space where he used to be adjacent to conscious Hip-Hop
22:25 - The rapper version of Ye needs to retire
26:41 - When Ye is involved in any of these songs, he brings too much baggage
27:45 - Sky City
31:45 - All you have is a cool idea / what message
33:00 - Thought of all the artists that sound homogeneous
34:00 - Remember when he used to have a direction in his project
35:10 - He’s looking washed
39:50 - What are we asking of Ye at this point
43:13 - When people get divorced, you go back to the age you got married at
46:12 - in the worst stretch of music in his career
47:24 - Feels like he’s out of ideas
53:44 - The cover
58:45 - The Score
1:02:15 - The Simpsons comparison
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Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign ¥$ - Vultures 2 / 2024 / hip hop, rap, trap, -
This is Album Mode Deluxe, where we talk about and quickly review albums that we haven't gotten a chance to in the past couple of weeks. Clairo, Denzel Curry and Rema are on the docket and only one of them disappointed, guess which one.
TIMECODES:
1:50 - Denzel curry – very good
5:13 - Another step past ZUU / traditional hip-hop album
6:18 - Florida man 7:30 Every song has features
8:00 - A$AP Ferg feature
9:22 - Demar is not A$AP Mob
11:10 - Good gym album
12:32 - Rema album HEIS
17:35 - This is a different version of afro beats
18:55 - Fast but danceable
19:46 - You can’t sing along but you can dance to
20:04 - Clairo Charm album
22:25 - We can find 10 other people that make this sound
22:55 - Do I want a better singer on this?
25:25 - So many people making this music and not evolving
26:43 - Needs to add more collaborators
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Childish Gambino's fifth studio album 'Bando Stone & The New World, how progressive his music has become ad his extended run as an artist. And no we don't believe he's gonna retire.
Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 8.5 / 10
The Love List: Lithonia, Talk My Shit, Cruisin', Happy Survival, We Are God
TIMECODES:
2:49 - Wasn’t sure how serious he was
3:30 - Favourite Childing Gambino song
9:00 - Drake comparison
17:08 - Get everything onto the album
18:40 - Cruisin
21:17 - Serene Yeat song
25:24 - Yoshinoya
27:39 - Doesn’t count as vindication
31:26 - Most people are going to know the singles
31:59 - Can you feel me
33:53 - Not every song is progressive
36:38 - Abstract reference kings
37:58 - White boy throwing dirt on his name for a think piece
40:06 - Selling Apple stock to buy a farm
43:14 - He is a case study
44:10 - He mentions how disillusioned he is with fame
46:37 - He is an artiste
47:47 - if it is the last project
50:44 - Tyler bar
51:24 - The cover
57:14 - Scores
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Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World / 2024 / hip hop, soul, afrobeats -
We're a little over half way through the year so Démar and Adriel look back on some of the best albums so far and which might be a lock for their year-end lists.
TIMECODES:
1:40 - Blue lips
3:00 - Brat
5:10 - Might Delete Later
7:09 - Yeat 2093
7:46 - Defending yourself is the admission of guilt
10:24 - Why Lawd
12:18 - Micah
12:52 - Doubt Demar
15:03 - Algorithm
15:41 - The Album is getting popular for being good
16:45 - In a Frank Ocean space
17:39 - 2025 Grammy’s
18:30 - Water
20:37 - The Last Dinner Party
22:29 - We Don't Trust You
24:13 - Honorable mentions
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Zach Bryan's fifth studio album 'The Great American Bar Scene', his amazing songwriting, the hip hop to country dictionary and the album's plodding minimalism.
Démar’s rating: 8 / 10.
Adriel’s rating: 7.5 / 10
The Love List: Purple Gas, Northern Thunder, Boons, The Way Back, Bass Boat, 28
TIMECODES:
1:10 - A bunch of left turns
1:43 - Démar shouts out himself
5:22 - The singles
8:29 - Title track
9:00 - The Boys’ reference
16:23 - This scene is not even alive for
18:05 - The slower pace is the best version of him
18:44 - Hip-hop to country dictionary
20:59 - Get the Stanley out
25:19 - Minimalist production is the best version of him
32:33 - Least favourite feature
35:40 - I Love to see him working with some left or not country
36:30 - Beyonce feature
37:52 - Disgruntled but optimistic
40:02 - The Character he’s playing reminds Adriel of a 21 savage
43:05 - It’s giving Fast and Furious meets Killer Mike
46:58 - NO Skips
50:05 - Démar and Adriel’s first country music vinyl
51:21 - The Scores
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Zach Bryan - The Great American Bar Scene / 2024 / country, indie, Americana -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss Lucky Daye's third studio album 'Algorithm', his amazing change in style and how this project is a breath of fresh air for male R&B.
Démar’s rating: 8.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 9 / 10
The Love List: Never Leavin' U Lonely, Herican, Blame, Mary, Breakin' The Bank, Soft
TIMESCODES:
1:01 It's the First Lucky Daye album Dema has ever listened to
2:40 Adriel was surprised by the singles
4:08 Reminds A&D of song they can’t place
6:30 Sounds like Frank Ocean
12:00 It is rare that a song comes on that strong as the intro
15:24 Demar is shocked
16:45 Miguel comparison
18:30 The guy before Travis Scott
22:40 Something that’s been missing in male R&B
25:09 R&B in the past 20 years is similar to hip-hip
25:27 Breakin’ the bank drums
31:57 Who is allowed to have interludes?
32:10 The outro on Blame
34:13 Interludes add texture to a project
35:20 Mary
38:48 Poetic lines but not everything is like that
40:08 His career
43:27 The cover
47:18 Pick up the needle
47:40 The Scores
48:50 Changes the trajectory of R&B
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Megan Thee Stallion's third studio album 'Megan', her lack of flow and topic variation along with her being closer to a female Logic than most think.
Démar’s rating: 7 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 4 / 10
The Love List: HISS, B.A.S., Paper Together, Spin, Boa , Cobra
TIMECODES:
3:28 - Is she still a hitmaker?
4:48 - She’s returning shots
6:30 - The diss tracks fit into the theme/cohesiveness of the album
8:56 - Megan’s musical growth since Good News
10:10 - I know what the album sounds like without hearing it
11:24 - Drake vocal sample
11:59 - Jeezy Sample flip
12:30 - How many times she uses the word pussy
13:30 - Sexual empowerment
14:30 - Flo Milli comparison
15:55 - Better rapper than Lil Baby
18:58 - Similar to Meek Mill
21:51 - Tapping into the anime side
24:04 - Headed into the Ice Spice lane
24:59 - Her 3rd project
27:45 - Boa
30:53 - Spin
32:42 - Signature sound being something you’re not the best on
34:04 - Logic comparison
35:53 - Something we created “that it’s empowering”
38:10 - The person that talks like this in real life is someone you don’t like
40:25 - BAS intro
45:20 - What it means for her career / personal case study for Adriel
48:36 - To Megan, rapping fast means rapping well
52:20 - The cover
55:10 - The score
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Megan Thee Stallion - Megan / 2024 / hip hop, rap, trap -
Sometimes you really have to pop out and show niggas. Kendrick Lamar's Juneteenth concert "The Pop Out — Ken & Friends," crazy, the duo breakdown their favourite moments and disappointments. Also Queen just sold their entire discography for £1 billion and we wonder which new artist could sell for the same.
TIMECODES:
1:10 - Kendrick with the Quotables
2:05 - Showed how important the West Coast is to hip-hop
4:44 - The box
7:15 - Euphoria
9:35 - The crowd
10:40 - Showing all of TDE together
13:48 - There is Not a bigger W in sports than defeating the biggest rapper
14:56 - Biggest problem with Drake is the unification effect is not there
15:51 - Vince Staples
17:01 - Kendrick album expectations
25:13 - Queen selling their catalogue
29:51 - Is there and artist that would garner more money then queen?
32:11 - What is going to happen with all these being sold?
33:20 - Outkast - Hey Ya
35:35 - Too new?
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Kehlani's fourth studio album 'Crash', her failed expansion beyond R&B and whether her album performances even matter to her career overall.
Démar’s rating: 4 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 5 / 10
The Love List: Groove Theory, 8, Deep
TIMECODES:
4:39 Originators of vibey R&B girl era
4:55 Fans and the public view her differently
8:19 Ariana Grande
10:14 Toxic Queens
17:45 A lot of good songs but no bangers
18:19 Leave that stuff to Ice Spice / Glorilla
19:45 Styles P
20:32 Vocals strained
25:15 Very regular Afro beats track
26:44 Unnamed singer
27:30 No songs that only she can do
32:04 Cohesiveness of her project
33:04 A disservice to her fans
35:50 Low power Rhianna
37:07 The cover
39:00 The Scores
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Kehlani - CRASH / 2024 / R&B, pop, country -
This week, Démar and Adriel discuss Don Toliver's fourth studio album 'Hardstone Psycho', his versatility, joining the sexy drill wave, and Don Toliver outgrowing the Cactus Jack label.
Démar’s rating: 7 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 8.5 / 10
The Love List: KRYPTONITE, TORE UP, LAST LAUGH, 5 TO 10, DEEP IN THE WATER
TIMECODES:
1:47 - Can’t Say
2:33 - His last project
3:07 - His voice colour
5:19 - Sexy drill
7:15 - Same spot as the last review
7:43 - Staying one pocket is a disservice
8:35 - Bandit as a single
11:34 - Don Toliver is like Count Dracula
12:16 - Almost a new genre
15:28 - Future comparison
18:20 - RIP to screw / Travis Scott songs
21:43 - Disc 4 R&B Don Toliver
25:10 - Party trap version is next level
27:02 - Albums that have everything
27:45 - lyrics
31:23 - It will hurt his score to look at lyrics
31:40 - Cactus Jack as a label
32:44 - Artist discovery is hard
38:55 - What it means for his career
42:38 - The cover
45:09 - Going for the themes regardless if the music matches
46:15 - vinyl cop
47:24 - The score
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Charli XCX's sixth studio album 'BRAT', how the start of her career misaligned people's perception of her, Brat's distortion and her approaching Daft Punk and Playboi Carti levels of good repetitiveness.
Démar’s rating: 9 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 7.5 / 10
The Love List: 360, 365, Von dutch, Mean girls, Everything is romantic, B2b
TIMECODES:
2:27 - The industry plant label
3:19 - Review of her career
9:55 - Demar, a fan of distortion
10:22 - Playboi Carti zone
11:32 - Talk Talk
13:20 - Adriel's Hudson Mohawke era
15:48 - Von Dutch
19:05 - Grime / breakdown / Stormzy
21:28 - Mean girls
25:20 - Respectfully, you’re a trash musician
26:46 - Progressions
27:16 - not going to get bored
27:42 - Her singing capability
29:26 - It is electronic music
26:59 - Lyrics
32:07 - Line between being deep and honest
33:00 - beard fishing
38:40 - How unique she is
39:50 - She’s an artist
40:08 - Repetition
41:43 - What it means for her career
43:58 - if you’re boom clap kind of person
45:37 - It's a Club album
46:11 - The cover
49:49 - The Scores
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Charli XCX - BRAT / 2024 / electronic, hyperpop, electropop -
Yes, "Wah Gwan Delilah" Remix really has Drake on the track, no, it's not a serious track. After Drake got demolished in his beef with Kendrick Lamar Demar and Adriel analyze why Drake released "Wah Gwan Delilah" now. Also, the hip hop continues its #Metoo moment as The-Dream is accused of rape and sexual battery in a new lawsuit.
TIMECODES:
2:07 Drake did it on purpose to cut the tension
3:32 This is him saying I am not accepting defeat
5:39 Could Drake drop a ‘Mob Ties’ right now?
7:31 Chance the Rapper comparison
10:12 Good move wrong time
12:25 The-Dream
18:02 Hip-hop me too
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Shaboozey's third album 'Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going', it's constant conversation between country and hip hop and whether Shaboozey is a gimmick.
Démar’s rating: 6.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 6.5 / 10
The Love List: Horses & Hellcats, A Bar Song (Tipsy), Drink Don't Need No Mix, Finally Over
TIMECODES:
1:39 - Movie soundtrack (spiderman)
4:44 - Hip-hop sensibilities in his music
06:28 - Horses and Hellcats lyrics
12:35 - Two things can be true
13:54 - Same soup, different mix
15:02 - Beyonce album helps?
19:40 - Démar couldn’t picture this outside of a hip-hop song
20:40 - Let it burn
21:00 - Is he a gimmick?
26:33 - Chanting
28:55 - His voice
31:24 - Adriel loves these kind of songs
34:58 - Isn't on the beat at all
36:28 - Noah Cyrus
39:09 - Favourite feature
41:33 - What does this album do for his career?
47:28 - Score
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Shaboozey - Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going / 2024 / country -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss Vince Staples' sixth studio album 'Dark Times', its muted production and Vince Staples finally channeling his humour into his music.
Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 7 / 10
The Love List: Government Cheese, Étouffée, "Radio", Freeman, Black&Blue
P.S. Doesn't 'Shame On The Devil' sound like a Mac Demarco song? Or are we trippin'
TIMECODES:
2:40 - Old and new Vince Staples
3:43 - When sparks fly
4:34 - Favorite Vince Staples song
9:38 - In that space where everyone knows him but not his music
14:23 - Music before this album isn’t funny
16:15 - Nailaism that exists in this lifestyle
19:08 - The get you out the street rapper
20:40 - Getting leverage in his career
24:09 - The entanglement
25:57 - The outro on ‘Justin’
26:48 - The interludes
30:42 - One of those artists where his fans aren’t catching all the lyrics
31:55 - I don’t know what a Vince Staples sound is
33:43 - Could have lived on 5 different albums / Mac Demarco
34:40 - Singles
38:50 - Boring drums on 'Justin'
41:00 - It’s all one vibe
42:05 - One of the most unique careers
48:28 - Pop rap
51:44 - The cover
56:14 - Scores
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Vince Staples - Dark Times / 2024 / rap, gangsta rap, hip hop - Montre plus
