Dodo's Album Reviews

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing Metallica's sophomore release, Ride The Lightning. For this album, the band decided to go for more progressive instrumentation and less of the speedy tracks from their debut . What came out of those sessions was my favourite Metallica album... We start with Fight Fire With Fire, which at first seems to be an acoustic ballad, before it descends into chaos. The guitars are fast and atonal, the drums are hard hitting and the vocals are so raspy and cruel. Then, at the 2:37 minute mark, we hit a solo that sounds so frantic and dirty, it's amazing. This is one of the best openers I've heard. Next we have my favourite Metallica song, the title track. It's menacing in it's oppressing sound, and not it's speed, as it is on the slower side of thrash. Also, that iconic opening riff at the beginning is pure joy to my ears. Around the 3 minute mark we also hit one of my favourite solos from Metallica. It...

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing Kanye's sophomore release, Late Registration. After the success that was The College Dropout , Kanye said "Eh, why not make a career out of this rap thing?" After a weird opening skit, we start with Heard 'Em Say, featuring Marron 5 vocalist, Adam Levine, who, somehow really works on this track, especially the soft, but jazzy instrumental. Touch The Sky is one of the more bombastic songs on here. The brassy instrumental works very well with the lyrical content, and is overall another great song. eyyy gold digger The skits on this album are pretty fire. Next we have Drive Slow, which is another one of the mellower songs on here. It's slow, and simple, another track I really liked. My Way Home is similiar to the previous track, only this time with a pitched down vocal sample. Cra ck Music is a bit of a lesser song, not because of the themes, but I really didn't surprise me in anyway. Roses is an...

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing the debut studio album from Kendrick Lamar, Section.80. We all know this man, for sure, and given his recent reappearance in the public spotlight, I thought, why not review his modest batch of albums? So let's check out his debut. After a short spoken word segment, we get into F*ck Your Ethnicity, where we see Kendrick setting his first impression as someone who seeks equality, not caring about what colour you are. Hol' Up is one of the relaxed songs, with a very smooth instrumental and a smooth flow. The bars are clean, and the hook is very catchy. Next we have A.D.H.D., talking about how drugs have been a massive problem in people's attention spans. The instrumental is also very clean. The production on here is very well done. No Make-Up is a favourite of mine, especially the message. Women should stop putting on so much make up, they look much better without it. The instrumental is, once again very wel...

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing the debut studio album from Metallica, Kill 'Em All. I pretty sure you know who Metallica is. World famous legendary thrash group, so let's see just see how thrashy their first album was. We open with the fast and aggressive, Hit The Lights, which has become one of my favourite metal songs ever. The fast drumming, the yelling and those solos, ohhh, those solos. Pure ear candy. Next we have The Four Horsemen, one of the band's more well known songs from this album. It's also the band's first 7 minute long song, and it well deserves that length. The guitar work, the vocals and the drumming are all great. Motorbreath is one of the lesser songs on here. Not quite as memorable as some of the other cuts on here. Jump In The Fire is another high energy song, and whilst not as fast as the opener, it still has a very catchy hook, and the solo at the middle is stellar. Next we have (Anesthesia) Pulling Teet...

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing Kanye West's debut studio album, The College Dropout. After working as a producer for many big MCs at the time, we finally released his first hip hop album. Let's see what this fresh mind has to offer. The Intro skit features a man that sounds like he's constantly running out of breath, and then, we open with We Don't Care. At first, I found the song a bit off putting, however, with repeat listens, I started to enjoy it more and more. The production is also super clean. After a short interlude, we move onto All Falls Down, featuring a sample from Lauryn Hill. I love Kanye's flow on here, as if it dances around the singing in the sample. I'll Fly Away is a jazzy interlude, which leads us into my favourite song on the album, Spaceship. The smooth soul instrumental is amazing, and Kanye's bars describing how fed up he is with is job keeps me intrigued all the way through. Jesus Walks, as the ...

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today I will be reviewing the self-titled debut from rap super duo, Kids See Ghosts. This duo is comprises of Kanye and Kid Cudi. On this album, we see the group discussing topics of mental health and other similiar themes. One of the main accomplishments this album has under it's belt is a perfect 10 out of 10 from Anthony Fantano, the melon man himself. So will I give the same score to this album? Let's see... We open with Feel The Love, where Cudi shouts out that he can still feel the love. After a short verse from Pusha T, we see Kanye pretending to be gun, screaming throughout the chorus. This sets the tone for the rest of album, as a beautiful and triumphant Friday evening. At least, that's the vibe the album gives me. Fire focuses around a Western sounding sample. The song has much more menacing, yet groovy sound. The hook from Cudi is very catchy as well. It's short, but it's very memorable. 4th Dimension features a...

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing Death Grips' latest LP, at the time of writing this, Year Of The Snitch. After Bottomless Pit, I was hoping to see more catchy, but glitchy and distorted music from the group on this next album. That's wasn't quite what I got... We open with Death Grips Is Online, which is one of the better cuts. It features a guitar filling the soundscape. Whilst the chorus isn't the most interesting, the verse are some the group's best and dirtiest sounding. Flies is... oh no... NO NOT THE NLDW SPARSE MIXES. The song sounds empty, the drums are bland, the synths are boring. No, not again. Oh, nevermind, Black Paint is fat, dirty and distorted, that's what I like. The vocals are buried under the mix. The guitar is great, and the bass is super heavy. And then we return to the empty mixes with Linda's In Custody. The song is boring, the hook is bland. The synths sound so cheap, but at least the vocals are ...

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing the latest Radiohead album at the time  of writing this post, A Moon Shaped Pool. This album was released after Thom Yorke's divorce, and the band's producer, Nigel Godrich, losing his father. Thus, the album is somewhat of a mass exodus, where the band let's out all of it's mournful emotions out onto a musical canvas. Let's see how that turned out. We open with Burn The Witch, which revolves around a string arrangement and synth bass. Thom's comes in with the vocals, however they are incredibly reverberated, similiar to a The Weeknd vocal mix. Slowly, the song spirals into a powerful crescendo, as the strings start becoming more and more dissonant. Next we have Daydreaming, which is one of Radiohead's saddest songs ever released. It revolves around a soft piano arpeggio. The whole song features many background effects, similiar to chimes and over reversed effects. The whole song mainly re...