Classics Week 2021 kicks off with Things Fall Apart, the 1999 breakthrough in The Roots' increasingly ambitious career, and a milestone for hip hop at large.
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Sam Hunt - Southside
ReviewsCommentSouthside is hard to forget for all the wrong reasons.
Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
Reviews1 CommentKacey Musgraves softens and buries everything country about her music on the bland Golden Hour.
Beastie Boys- Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
Reviews2 CommentsOn their latest album, the Beastie Boys still sound like they're at the top of their game--which is fantastic considering their age. There's a kinetic energy between the three of them that's difficult to explain. I know these guys aren't for everybody, but there's something about their collective enthusiasm that's charmed me into loving their music. The rhymes here aren't anything out of the ordinary for the band. This LP is loaded with jokes, obscure references, non-sequiturs, and cunning wordplay. It doesn't have the storytelling I usually love in my hip hop, but this LP is more about living in the moment than it is chewing things over.
But the absolute cherry on top of this album is the production. It's thick, heavy, textured, noisy, psychedelic, and fantastic. It's absolutely exciting to hear the Beasties advancing their sound this late in their career. It's like they took the electronic hip hop fusions on Hello Nasty and turned them into an unstoppable monster, which is now destroying the city.
Needless to say, I've enjoyed the hell out of this album.
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