Average start with 'Death Before Dishonor' being the worst cut largely due to the sound and hook with a singer I don't like. All in all, it's a decent 40 minutes of east coast g rap but nothing to write home about with a number of tracks that aren't engaging enough. You kind of know what you're getting with Styles. At times I find the way he raps and rhymes a tad grating. The featuring artist, Bucky, steals the show on the penultimate song with a strong presence over a hard beat just spitting for three-minutes straight.
Best Tracks: Porsche Lights, I Ain't Doing 2 Much, Blood Money, Cried on Sunday
If you like some quick spitting and boom bap, you'll get something out of this short album. At the same time though, this definitely isn't reinventing the wheel and the sound will be quite familiar for fans of the genre. The best is the DJ Premier produced 'Leave It Alone'.
Best Tracks: Leave It Alone, Chromed Out
There are some decent moments. Alan Arkin trying to act as a hard ass police chief, the Mike Myers beat poetry, and the paranoid state Mike gets in should make for a better movie than it is, but it all comes together to be fairly unmemorable in the end. 2-2.5/5
I expected more from this one. The story of a doll/toy going out of control has been done and this doesn't add a whole lot new apart from the themes of attachment and human relationships vs machine. None of the attempts at jump scares worked. The daughter changes from having an attachment disorder with M3GAN to doing a 180 and trying to kill it too quickly.
Some random thoughts. This is a pleasant listen despite being a tad boring in parts. The best are good, but not amazing. It's a shame the best moment, 'As It Was', isn't a bit longer. Some of the synth-pop production sounds like something The Weeknd has had. 'Little Freak' reminds me of some of Zayn's tunes. Harry's singing talent doesn't blow me away.
Best Tracks: As It Was, Little Freak, Daydreaming