Category: 13/30

• drake – honestly, nevermind

  

  A pop artist exploring beyond their sound and weaving through expectation is a good set up. Just this year, an emboldened ROSALÍA gave us the brilliant ‘MOTAMAMI’. The trouble with ‘Honestly, Nevermind’, is that it is not experimental to anyone but Drake himself. The beats pass by like an artificial water park river, occasionally pumping […]

  Seth Rice

  June 24, 2022

  13/30, dance, house

  album review, drake, new album

• arms and sleepers – former kingdoms

  

  Arms and Sleepers’ early records were abundant in personality, despite not pushing many boundaries. The music moved with unpredictable and astral rhythms, out of which industrial sounds shot up sprightly. But that engaging quality has generally eroded and ‘former kingdoms’ marks a sharp decline. It is an album of inevitabilities: never less than tolerable, never […]

  Seth Rice

  May 11, 2022

  13/30, ambient, electronic

  album review, ambient, new music