Category: Reviews
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Bishop Briggs Underwhelms with Church of Scars
After achieving success with the 2016 single “River”, Bishop Briggs’ debut album tries to build off the success of the alternative hit. While her booming vocals anchor the 10 songs, inconsistent production stops the album from reaching its full potential. Nevertheless, Church of Scars has its moments. Despite being released almost two years ago, “River”…
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Care About Saba’s CARE FOR ME
While his features with Chance the Rapper on “Angels” may have been cheerful, Saba’s new album is anything but. 30 seconds into opening track “BUSY / SIRENS”, he informs the listener “I don’t know how long I had depression”. At first glance, it appears we’re about to get another dose of the “sad rap movement”…
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Let Cardi B in with Invasion of Privacy
After a monumental single, a boatload of features, 20 million Instagram followers, and dropping two mixtapes (what b*tch working as hard as her?), we finally have the long-awaited debut album of Bronx rapper Cardi B. Invasion of Privacy opens with an origin story, as our favorite stripper-turned-rapper boasts about her rags to riches beginning on…
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Underrated: You’re Not Alone
The seeds of OK Go were planted in a couple of 11-year-old boys at art camp. Years later, these seeds would sprout into an energetic, one-of-a-kind, you-gotta-see-em-live, local band in Chicago, grow to be a viral Youtube video of four dudes on treadmills, and eventually transform into an independent band forging the way for innovation…
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Underrated: God First
Jack Steadman. You may know him as the frontman of Bombay Bicycle Club, the bald guy with big glasses, or if you’re lucky, Mr Jukes. If you don’t know him as the latter, it’s time you get educated. After the (friendly) breakup of Bombay Bicycle Club, Steadman quite literally set sail on a new journey.…
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Accepting the Growth of Artists and Yourself
I was in eighth grade when my best friend Sarah told me to listen to Ed Sheeran. At first, I laughed, thinking he was some frat guy with a guitar solely based off of his name. She insisted, and so I gave him a chance. His first album, +, was probably one of the first…
