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Album Mode is joined by its first ever guest, Kyle Parkinson! (@sheeloveskp) It's the end of the year so we've decided to breakdown our favourite music moments of the year and how the landscape has changed. Also Kyle gives us his top 5 albums of the year and exlpains how the UMG pulling its music from TikTok affected him. Strap in for a first ever and maybe first of many!
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Finally the episode you've all been waiting for, Album Mode's top 10 albums of 2024! Adriel and Démar list their best albums of the year and hand out some honourable metions to cap off 2024. There's some surprises in both lists so strap in for our year-ender.
TIMECODES:
1:25 - 5 Top 10 albums of this year
5:18 - Album from this year that people will remember
6:40 - Lucky Daye
10:40 - We don’t trust you
11:45 - Listening to the album in full is a different experience
12:02 - Born in the wild
14:14 - Previous #9 Fat Dog - Woof
15:03 - Rema – Heis
18:06 - Charli XCX
18:47 - BRAT influencing politics
19:30 - Flo Milli
22:42 - Doechii alligator bites never heal
24:20 - Sometimes, she resembles other people
25:56 - Zach Bryan
29:07 - Might Delete Later
31:19 - Can’t listen to Lucky Daye because he’s not paying child support
32:18 - J Cole hater
33:00 - GNX
36:33 - Never been this West Coast
37:30 - Leon Thomas Mutt
39:18 - BRAT / Victory lap by Demar
42:59 - Charli XCX is the queen of pop this year
43:56 - The last dinner party
47:55 - Yeat
51:46 - Blue Lips
54:10 - If Kendrick did the things Schoolboy Q did musically
55:15 - Yeat 2093
58:16 - I Thought we valued creativity in music
58:42 - Different is good
1:01:02 - Honourable mentions
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Démar’s Top 10:
Yeat – 2093Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy Yeat – Lyfestyle Charli XCX – Brat Kendrick Lamar – GNX Lucky Daye – Algorithm Zach Bryan – Great American Bar Scene Flo Mili Fine Ho, Stay Fat Dog – WoofMetro & Future – We Don’t Trust You
Adriel's Top 10:
Schoolboy Q - Blue LipsLast Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy Leon Thomas - Mutt Kendrick Lamar - GNX J Cole - Might Delete Later Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal Charli XCX - Brat Metro & Future - We Don't Trust You Tems - Born in the Wild Lucky Daye – Algorithm -
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss the re-release of J Cole's third mixtape 'Friday Night Lights' on Apple Music and Spotfy. The also talk about J Cole being the intial foil to Drake and how underrated J Cole is a producer.
Démar’s rating: 8.5 / 10
Adriel's rating: 9 / 10
The Love List: Back to the Topic, Villematic, In The Morning, See World, Too Deep for the Intro
TIMECODES:
3:20 - Hip-hop fans have been holding onto these two mixtapes
4:52 - Era where it was Cole vs Drake
5:28 - Mixtapes poppin' online and outside
7:16 - How different hip-hop sounded at that time
9:46 - Workout as the single
11:50 - Drake and Cole collaboration
13:17 - Looking for trouble
15:23 - When Twitter was Twitter
22:05 - Negative space
23:56 - Must be love
24:22 - Flipping popular R&B samples
25:41 - Taking the production and just rapping over it
29:57 - In the morning
33:26 - When was the last time we heard Drake rapping like this
37:43 - These songs are a walk
42:15 - So many quotables from a mixtape
44:08 - No one talks like that in hip-hop
49:50 - Made him more relatable
52:27 - Too deep for the intro
1:00:56 - What it means for his career
1:04:00 - the cover
1:12:14 - Adriel hot take
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J Cole - Friday Night Lights / 2024 / hip hop, rap -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss Kendrick Lamar's sixth studio album 'GNX', Kendrick Lamar allowing himself to make music without an overacrching concept and Kendrick taking his LA centric sound to an international audience.
Démar’s rating: 8.5 / 10
Adriel's rating: 7 / 10
The Love List: wacced out murals, squabble up, peekabo, hey now, luther, gloria
TIMECODES:
2:17 Jack Antonoff
5:00 At a place where we don’t have to make any myths
5:21 2 years removed from Morale
5:46 N95
11:49 Biggest surprised drop since _____
14:09 Best feature
16:29 GNX
18:50 The intro
19:58 Spanish influence
25:39 Very drake like
26:30 Kendrick, being the anti-Drake
28:28 Framing everything through Drake
33:54 How do you feel about reincarnation
37:09 Kendrick is an honest artist
37:34 Peekaboo
40:44 TV off
42:22 DJ Mustard's new producer tag
43:16 Ruins the beat switch
47:31 Violent hyphy music
58:33 Under estimating / overestimating how much people like Kendrick Lamar
1:03:04 Humble at a party is crazy
1:04:37 The Cover
1:08:22 The Scores
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Kendrick Lamar - / 2024 / hip hop, rap, trap, hyphy -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss Cordae's third studio album 'The Crossroads', why what he raps about hasn't changed since his debut and his features being the stars of his album.
Démar’s rating: 6 / 10
Adriel's rating: 6.5 / 10
The Love List: No Bad News, Syrup Sandwiches, Summer Drops, Saturday Mornings
TIMECODES:
4:01 - How many Cordae songs do you have liked
7:00 - Young Nudy vs. Denzel Curry vs Cordae
10:44 - The intro/artist that doesn’t exist in hip-hop anymore
11:31 - What is the budget for this album?
14:45 - Being autobiographical sets him apart
15:20 - Best feature
17:41 - Sharknado comparison
18:03 - Vocal vulnerability
18:54 - Juicy J feature
29:44 - Syrup sandwiches / thought that was Frank Ocean
31:58 - Song about his kid before she was born
34:13 - Rare artist; when you hear it sounds good, but when read, it still has some value
34:49 - He Needs to stop talking about his family
39:41 - Don’t know where he’s headed with the future of his lyrics
30:24 - Hasn’t compromised his sound for a hit song
41:56 - Breakup songs in hip-hip are corny
43:02 - The cover
45:00 - The Score
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Cordae - The Crossroads / 2024 / hip hop, rap, boom bap -
The latest Grammys nominations just dropped so you know we had to make some predicitions. Since Adriel and Demar have lost all hope in the Grammys ever getting it right, we predict who we think is going to win in the most cynical fashion.
TIMECODES:
2:10 - Who was the Grammy’s fav white woman?
2:40 - Context going into the Grammy’s where race does matter
3:08 - Album of the Year always feels like a popularity contest
3:30 - Adriel is guessing Cowboy Carter wins
4:22 - Demar takes a victory lap with BRAT
4:55 - André 3000 getting on this list is dubious
5:38 - live show gave the energy that this whole thing is a joke (Andre 3000)
7:33 - Not like us winning
9:06 - I’m one of the birds
11:10 - Best new artist
12:28 - Everyone on the list has made music for years but this is when they made it in their eyes
13:44 - Demar controversial pick
14:49 - Rap album of the year
15:21 - Death of Slim Shady
19:00 - Espresso is going to win it
20:05 - New Edition of the white women rankings
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss SahBabii's fourth studio album 'Saaheem ', how amazing the prodcution is and his influences have become an unbearing weight around his music.
Démar’s rating: 6.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 4 / 10
P.S. Belt Boyz, Belt Boyz, Belt Boyz, Belt Boyz
The Love List: Belt Boyz, Viking, Mirror Picz, Sylvan Rd Ridin Down Dill
TIMECODES:
2:56 - Confused to how we got here
4:42 - Diehard fans
5:46 - artificially pushed to album mode
8:08 - The lyrics are not why we’re here
8:54 - Expected loops
9:32 - What is a belt boy
10:48 - Young Nudy comparison
11:29 - 2009-2013 Lex Luger production mashed with Cardo Got Wings
13:45 - Vocal delivery falls flat
15:55 - What about just songwriting
16:17 - Technically, the texture is there
17:24 - Stop talking you’re ruining it
18:38 - Giving more of a Young Thug experience
21:09 - We can skip his lyrics
24:59 - One of the more playlist albums
28:40 - No Skips
29:18 - the cover
30:10 - Adriel is bewildered about this album review
31:33 - Score
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SahBabii - Saaheem/ 2024 / hip hop, melodic trap, trap -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss Lil Uzi Vert's fourth studio album 'Eternal Atake 2', how the rest of rage (and hip hop in general) has passed them by and if they can ever recover from being Kid Cudi'd .
Démar’s rating: 3 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 3.5 / 10
P.S. Meteor Man has gotta be Uzi's worst song ever... Right?
The Love List: We Good, Chips and Dip, Space High
TIMECODES:
1:06 - Demar not looking forward to EA2
1:48 - Lil Uzi’s best album?
5:25 - Debut album numbers
6:50 - Lil Uzi being left behind
10:45 - Liked Songs on Spotify
11:53 - Past Lil Uzi Reviews
13:01 - Big Time Rush
16:55 - We Good
18:16 - Lil Uzi Vert is behind Rage music
21:00 - Black Hole
24:41 - Lil Uzi Vert being sober
26:38 - Yeat vs. Uzi
27:38 - The Fall Off
31:48 - Demar is a little sad
32:31 - Playboi Carti & Lil Uzi Vert are lyricists
37:21 - Demar is a self-proclaimed ‘Outlier’
39:27 - Used to be a prime-time hook-maker
42:10 - Lyft Em Up
43:50 - Meteor Man is their worst song ever
46:14 - 2016 Hip-Hop Mount Rushmore
50:35 - What is the future for Lil Uzi Vert?
53:47 - Production-based artists
57:45 - The Cover
1:00 - The Scores
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Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake 2 / 2024 / hip hop, rage, elecrtonic, trap -
Somehow we've made it to 200 album reviews on Album mode! Shoutout to everyone who's been following us since the days of only video and shoutout to everyone who's subscribed since we've made the jump to YouTube. Here's to 200 more!
TIMECODES:
3:14 - Taylor Swift is one of the more interesting ones
4:11 - Cleo Sol/biggest regrets
7:18 - Leaders on the Nas resurgence
8:05 - Separating the narrative from the artist
10:48 - Kawhi Leonard’s album
11:34 - NewJeans
12:49 - Démar congratulates himself
13:22 - Vince Staples
13:57 - High on Gunna
14:57 - Post Malone
15:52 - Adriel takes credit for Brent Faiyaz
17:25 - SoundBytes
19:00 - Diddy in the SB Hall of Shame
21:41 - Retro reviews
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Tyler, the Creator's eighth studio album 'CHROMAKOPIA ', how his production has had a slight regression and how Tyler, the Creator has reached a point where we care enough to release such a personal album.
Démar’s rating: 7 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 7.5 / 10
The Love List: St. Chroma, Sticky, I Killed You, Balloon, Hey Jane, Darling, I, Thought I Was Dead
TIMECODES:
3:26 - Fans that have to be like Tyler
5:49 - Difference from Goblin to Cherry Bomb / Childish & Cudi
7:26 - NOID / NO ID
10:05 - Tyler is their Kanye / what Kanye used to do
13:23 - Test case for how you hear an album
14:00 - Quote from Tyler
16:40 - Knows how to make intro’s
17:37 - Making them blend
17:51 - St Chroma
20:08 - Sticky is simplistic
23:35 - Mashup of all his sounds on this project “Rah Tah Tah”
25:44 - Darling I
27:10 - Grabbing from all his sounds
31:26 - Dark and sad guitar on sad a
35:14 - Lil Wayne and Tyler don’t miss
35:44 - Doechii
37:40 - Glo best feature / distinct voice
41:15 - Hey Jane / pregnancy scare
48:30 - Going through a fear on inadequacy
52:26 - Better lyrically dance albums
53:02 - Tried to escape being funny
56:27 - Part of the new big
58:44 - Being left of center
59:57 - Looks different every time a project comes out
1:02:00 - Almost a throw back
1:09:36 - The cover
1:12:30 - Move the goal post of what’s good
1:13:45 - Scores
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Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA / 2024 / hip hop, soul, pop, -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss Yeat's debut album 'Lyfestylë ', how his production has become a playground, whether his lyrics matter in anyway and if Yeat's music is something you need to 'get' to like.
Timecodes
1:58 What’s a Yeat?
4:34 Is he building a world again / trailer?
8:39 How many songs saved from this artist?
10:13 Demar has 92 Yeat songs saved
11:30 You are watching a master at work
11:37 If you are a producer and Yeat calls it’s the best day of your life/push all the buttons 13:07 problem with the production on this album / squeaky sound
15:23 You can’t say you don’t like it/you don’t get it
16:35 Love is blind comparison
17:20 muddy vocals
19:54 if I didn’t read the lyrics I couldn’t tell you what he is saying
25:12 1/18th hip-hop/production to rage to/ different production that hip-hop fans are used to
26:11 White passing artist with hip-hop tropes in his language / what he is wearing
27:10 Not trying to divorce himself from hip-hop / pushing it away but still being a part if it
28:56 The bell is back / lifestyle he pulls out every trick
32:14 Song sound more like music
33:25 No party Adriel has been to where yeat will get played and people will
34:40 Tech n9ne fanbase comparison
36:00 Can yeat make a #1 song?
36:56 Lyrically rough
38:16 Eminem test
41:21 American Idol test
47:00 Is this good rapping?
54:33 Makes a lot of A- B+ songs
56:30 AI cover?
59:03 The Scores
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Démar’s rating: 9.5 / 10
Adriel's rating: 4 / 10
The Love List: GEEK TIME, LYING 5 FUN, SO WHAT, GOD TALKIN SHHH, THEY TELL ME, NEW HIGH
Yeat - Lyfestylë / 2024 / hip hop, electronic, rage, trap -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss GloRilla's debut album 'Glorious ', how she's transitioned from being a singles artist, her masterful ear for production and the album's stunning features.
Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 7 / 10
The Love List: HOLLON, TGIF, STEP, I LUV HER, PROCEDURE
TIMECODES:
2:02 - Background on Glorilla
2:24 - FNF
3:29 - Live review of the FNF / saw the vision
5:57 - Fivio Foreign feature
8:30 - Understanding of how things work in the internet age in terms of Glo
11:36 - Trap banger women picking better beats
15:10 - Step/shooting synths
17:21 - What you know about me / can’t sing
17:38 - Wipe me down
19:50 - Sampling a record they play today in the club
20:10 - T-pain, not gotten old
21:45 - Feels like we’re back in 06
22:30 - Autotune in the T-pains era compared to this era
23:55 - Sounds like a comment section
26:34 - Almost incriminating herself
29:09 - Fine tuning of the production made the song better
31:17 - If it happed in male rap it would be egregious
32:30 - Women in the dating world talking about their prospective
33:22 - Whoever this record is about I hope it put fear in him
35:08 - Doesn’t have the same ring to it if a man said it
37:37 - How it is for her career / this whole album is Memphis
39:18 - Features come to her world
41:30 - The cover
44:05 - Vinyl cost
45:05 - Adriel discriminates
45:58 - The score
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GloRilla - Glorious/ 2024 / hip hop, crunk, trap -
J. Cole just dropped his latest single 'Port Antonio' and it sounds like he doesn't understand the damage he's done. When he stepped outside the beef he sealed his fate but somehow he's still rapping about being the best. The duo breakdown Cole's misguided raps.
TIMECODES:
1:05 Instagram only drops
2:25 Dat Piff / Going back in time
4:08 Coming from The Fall Off
4:44 Like when things are addressed in the music
5:10 Don’t think Drake and Cole will be cool
9:04 He made the adult decision
9:55 Drake and Kendrick will never be cool
13:00 The best rapping was coming from J. Cole
15:22 Like a Wilt Chamberlain-type character
17:18 Drake & Kendrick battling for GOAT status
21:15 His life is going to be better since he backed out of the beef
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The allegations are flying in. Diddy is facing more allegations in civil court, and the number of allegations is staggering. The patented duo breaks things down.
TIMECODES
4:50 120 allegations coming forward
7:03 Going after the accomplices
11:03 Put doubt in celebrities
11:52 Trump comparison
12:18 Power dynamics
13:48 Every time their phone rings, their heart drops
14:59 Diddy’s name is so corrosive
17:29 What is going to be the burden of proof
17:36 50 cent + Ma$e on the right side of history
18:32 Who will get the pass and who won’t
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This week, Démar and Adriel discuss Leon Bridges's fourth album 'Leon', why Bridges can't really make a bad song and whether he's actually a blues artist instead of R&B.
TIMECODES:
2:08 Largely successful at the start of his career
2:30 Coming home
4:09 Typed in Leon into Spotify / Who is the best Leon
6:52 In this group, that doesn’t make bad songs
7:24 Not as R&B when it comes to some songs
11:34 Blues artists
12:24 Rod Wave
14:06 Needs Shaboozy
15:36 Zach Bryan feature
16:17 If they had a feature on them, they could have popped
18:40 A little country tilt
19:40 When a man cries
21:05 Breaking the fourth wall
25:51 If you can’t relate, then you’ve never been in love
27:40 He’s talking about everyone else in relation to him / speaking outside himself
29:44 Similar to Kid Cudi / fans want to hear your pain
32:00 The album named after you
35:13 No skips
36:50 The Scores
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Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10 Adriel's rating: 7 / 10
The Love List: When a Man Cries, Laredo, Panther City, Simplify, Peaceful Place -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss Tommy Richman's debut album Coyote, why leaving off his break out singles 'Million Dollar Baby' and 'The Devil is a Liar' is a mistake and his unique combinations of influences in Michael Jackson, Tyler the Creator and Justin Timberlake.
Démar’s rating: 6 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 8 / 10
The Love List: WHITNEY, TEMPTATIONS, LETTERMAN, ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, VANITY
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1:59 - Million Dollar Baby
4:41 - Great Expectations
6:34 - What is it a mistake leaving the singles off your album
7:38 - When “Crew” came out
8:05 Plant allegations
9:30 - Unofficial Brent Faiyaz's Canadian manager
10:25 - Just because you have not heard of an artist doesn’t mean they don’t exist
11:24 - A blend of 3 legends
13:23 - If someone was a pop star but they weren’t a nerdy theatre kid
14:25 - Would temptations have gone viral?
19:22 - I don’t know what his real singing voice sounds like
21:24 - Don Toliver comparison
21:41 - hearing it live without the effects on the mic
22:46 - Vanity
26:36 - Joji comparison
27:58 - Démar wants more features
31:09 - Ice Spice route
35:13 - The vibe of his lyrics are not as important
36:45 - Passively, it slaps more
37:37 - It’s giving ‘I’m an artiste’
45:40 - No skips
46:50 - Demar is concerned
48:55 - The score
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Tommy Richman - Coyote / 2024 / pop, R&B, Virginia funk -
The feds have Diddy up of sex trafficking a racketeering charges and it ain't looking good. Diddy has already been denied bail twice and is officially awaiting trial. Also we reach back and talk about the Kendrick Lamar - Drake - Jay Z - Lil Wayne Super Bowl debacle and wonder if Kanye West can ever do the Super Bowl.
TIMECODES:
00:55- Diddy arrested
4:15 - 1000 bottles of baby oil
8:10 - What reason do you have to have that much baby oil?
8:30 - A lot of people aligned with Diddy
9:37 - Seems what he was doing was known
12:25 - Giving his masters back
13:13 - 100 mill lawsuit
14:10 - What the public thinks of who should be next
15:43 - The group of men who openly date teenagers
16:33 - The Superbowl
18:03 - Lil Wayne is not a Superbowl-level artist
19:03 - The beef: will Kendrick be able to perform Not Like Us
20:48 - Think Drakes gone down another level
22:44 - Normally, a hit song with that subject matter would be a big deal 30:32 Kanye getting the Superbowl in the future
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Fousheé's second album 'Pointy Heights', her melding reggae with other genres and her trying to escape the shadow of her influences
Démar’s rating: 6.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 5.5 / 10
The Love List: 100 bux, birds, bees, feel like home, closer, war
TIMECODES:
1:29 Test case – black female artist not making R&B
2:36 Female Teezo Touchdown?
3:45 One of those names Demar sees everywhere
5:30 Reason for the name of the album
5:50 Birds, bees
10:25 Not for the traditional hip-hop/r&b listener
10:19 Interpolation of pass the dutch
11:55 Easter egg for the black listener
12:30 closer / giving late career kid cudi
22:17 Loversland
24:00 Reach a point where everything you like doesn’t have to influence you
28:36 2 more albums before people start to notice
29:17 versus are catchier then the chorus – birds bees
30:17 Feels like home
31:15 Identify crisis to her artistry
32:28 The cover
34:00 Vinyl cop
35:31 The score
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Fousheé - Pointy Heights / 2024 / alternative, indie rock, reggae, dream pop -
This week Démar is on a solo mission discussing Fat Dog's debut album 'Woof.' its über dramatic production and Fat Dog's repetitive lyrics actually give you something to grab onto while the production swirls.
Démar’s rating: 9 / 10
The Love List: Vigilante, Wither, Clowns, All the Same, Running, I am the King
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Fat Dog- Woof. / 2024 / New rave, rock, punk, dance -
This week Démar is on a solo mission discussing Doechii's third mixtape ' Alligator Bites Never Heal', her clear as day Fugees influences and how an album can feel like a drag even though it's amazing.
Démar’s rating: 8 / 10
The Love List: BULLFROG, BOILED PEANUTS, DENIAL IS A RIVER, SKIPP, HIDE N SEEK, DEATH ROLL, NISSAN ALTIMA, HUH!, FIREFLIES, ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL
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Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal / 2024 / rap, hip hop, alternative rap, alternative - Visa fler
