4/5
Friday, 17 October 2025
REVIEW: CHRISSIE HYNDE & PALS - DUETS SPECIAL
4/5
REVIEW: THE LAST DINNER PARTY - FROM THE PYRE
4/5
Monday, 13 October 2025
REVIEW: THE COOL KIDS - HI TOP FADE
4/5
Hi Wind
Legend has it, in the same week that a new album from Mobb Deep, featuring a posthumous Prodigy, hits shelves, all to the tune of a Marvel Comic celebration of these hip-hop hero's Mass Appeal, alternative rap legends 'The Cool Kids' will hit us with that 'Hi Top Fade'. The Chicago, Illinois duo, like Havoc and P, of Sir Michael Rocks and Chuck Inglish return for the first time since 2022's three chapters of 'Before S### Got Weird', 'Baby Oil Staircase' and 'Chillout'. All as some long fingernails and wrist jewellery puts a burned mixtape into a car's CD changer. These kids have been doing it ever since 'The Bake Sale' of 2008 (what?!) came after their 'Totally Flossed Out' tape. An E.P. that will soon cook up its twenty-year anniversary (WHAT?!). Their debut, 'When Fish Ride Bicycles', hit the stereo spokes hard, like Lupe Fiasco on the skateboard, before the days of Kid Cudi. And they've had 'Special Edition Grand Master Deluxe' and 'Volumes' since then.
Now, there's a whole host of singles for your crates and 'Rockbox'. Like 'Foil Bass', '95 South', featuring A-Trak and Sango, and the Seafood Slim guest spot on 'Banana In The Tailpipe'. But it's when this perfect pair put their 'Cigarello Helmets' on in the outstanding opening that things get really rolling. Back to that 80s 8-bit style from one of the purest in the genre. 'We Got Clips' feels as old school as the appeal of the legends that currently have it this year. Whereas 'Dang' brings you even more hip-hop drums, straight out of Hollywood. "Hotter than a hairdryer, intertwined with some wires." And they're all plugged in into this studio sound. The movie making continues on 'Blade Runner', for the sci-fi cult favourites that feels like 2049, just like 'Tron: Ares' that also comes out this week, laying the grid groundwork for future tech, and love for the Depeche Mode 80s, all at the same time. It's that 'Crunch Rap Supreme' soul singing chorus that tells us, "I stay about the jam and I know when I'm in amber."
Scream for more Rocks and Inglish when they tell you 'Don't Say My Name' on the government issue, like a recent Dallas Mavericks TikTok trend. Smoother than a 'Clean Linen Satin Pillow', or how that track name sounds over xylophone playing keys. On 'Tryin To Get You' they rap "when you get that grill lit, you gotta let them coals burn/Just to heat up, where you put your feet up/Chefs let the smoke settle before they cut the beef up/Carry water, chop wood/Like a mud in the flood/It's gonna fell where it's stuck, like this page in that book." They even give us part two of 'Cinnamon', after their latte sprinkling classic off the 2009 Don Cannon mixtape 'Gone Fishing'. On 'Live Wire', the fuse gets lit even more with lines like, "I could win it all with you/I got tickets in the player's ball for two/Stepping out, had your dress matching my suit/The deeper the root, it's like the sweeter the fruit." All on a beat that Uncle Charlie Wilson would be proud of, because you know what these Chi-towners say about R. Kelly. It's something like 'Back Up Off Me', from these kids stepping in the name of the right way. Now, that's cool. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'Cigarello Helmets', '95 South (Feat. A-Trak & Sango)', 'Blade Runner'.
Spin This: The Cool Kids - 'The Bake Sale'
REVIEW: MOBB DEEP - INFINITE
4/5
The Prodigy
Deeper than rap, Mobb Deep remain, in spirit, one of the best brotherhoods in hip-hop. No group was dirtier or grimier. The violence of the genre immortalized in something scarier than 'Shook Ones'. No halfway crooks allowed. You only had to see Eminem lip-sync along to them, rapping in the mirror to begin his legendary battle-rap movie '8 Mile'. Prodigy and Havoc were so renowned, even 50 Cent has to sign them, like fellow legends M.O.P. and Ma$e at the peak of his powers. This was a pair who weren't afraid to go up against the late, great 'Pac. But you can't listen to them diss tracks any more in all good faith. Tragedy struck in 2017, three years after their last album (2014's 'The Infamous Mobb Deep') when Prodigy passed away due to accidental choking. The rapper, real name Albert Johnson, had been battling with sickle cell anaemia his whole life. His legacy lives forever.
And now it's immortalized once more in the 'Infinite' album for infinity. A part posthumous Mobb Deep album and the final LP from the pair as previously unreleased vocals from capital P are mixed with producer and rapping partner Havoc, and longtime collaborator and the legendary producer of this album, The Alchemist (nobody works harder). Part of the year-long 'Legend Has It...' series from Mass Appeal records, it joins Nas and DJ Premier, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, De La Soul, Big L, and Slick Rick as one of the best rap albums of the year. And, like Big L, a life after death one. The amazing artwork, a tribute testament to their style, feels like they're still here together. And Prodigy again is immortalized forever in the accompanying Marvel Comics series that turns these legends into the superheroes that they are. Frequent flyer Nas gets down with Mobb on 'Pour The Henny' (like that, 'Bron, 'Bron?) and the sweet sample of the 'Down For You' single, featuring soul singer Jorja Smith ("If bein' in love is my downfall, then I'll be down for you.") for one of the best rap songs of the billboard year. Not to mention it's 'Love The Way' part two featuring H.E.R. herself. And after their own 'Legend' albums, Wu-Tang members Raekwon and Ghostface appear on 'Clear Black Nights'.
The reformed Clipse also shoot some on 'Look At Me' after their own amazing album reunion in 2025. Joining big hitting singles like the opening 'Against The World' Mobb opera and the grand 'Taj Mahal', built for the fans. Between all the 'Gunfire' and closing 'We The Real Thing', there's even a Big Noyd on 'The M. The O. The B. The B.' with a curious sample. But it's not like we can listen to 'Diddy' any more, anyway. This album clearly 'Score(s) Points', before the penultimate 'Discontinued' that will never happen to this band of brothers. They give it up for 'My Era' and all their classic contemporaries. And they also stick to their violent wordplay for 'Mr Magik', which won't bring you back after sawing you in two. It's like Prodigy says on 'Easy Bruh', "Longevity in hip-hop/The run is endless, our cash don't stop/You the great prеtender, you not this hot/I'll boil over, I'll mеlt the whole pot." Or when Havoc simply puts in "R.I.P.". These two will live on together in infamy. What else could you expect from the Infamous Mobb Deep? Legend has nothing on this. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'Down For You (Feat. Nas & Jorja Smith)', 'My Era', 'Clear Black Nights (Feat. Raekwon & Ghostface Killah)'
Spin This: Mobb Deep - 'Infamy'.
Friday, 3 October 2025
REVIEW: TAYLOR SWIFT - THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL
4/5
Friday, 26 September 2025
REVIEW: MARIAH CAREY - HERE FOR IT ALL
3.5/5
Carey On
Seven years have sealed since absolute pop superstar Mariah Carey's last album (2018's 'Caution' didn't know what was coming a year later), but now, here she is, 'Here For It All' with her sweet sixteenth affair. The classics kept coming, year after year, in the, and her, golden era of the 90s. The self-titled debut, the open 'Music Box', a 'Daydream', the bold and beautiful 'Butterfly', and of course the 'Merry Christmas' album that is all everybody wants, coming soon. In the new millennium of 'Glitter' the R&B icon hit Usher 'Confessions' figures with 'The Emancipation Of Mimi', also produced by Jermaine Dupri, who brought out his own 'Magic City' (first album in more than a minute) a fortnight ago. And after 'E=MC2' it all multiplied from there. But the 'Emancipation' was an unbelievable twenty years ago, and Mimi has just wrapped up a tour about it, here in Yokohama. Yet she still has time to give us another amazing album.
The beautiful black and white artwork of 'Here' evokes a time when a 'Hero' came along and Mariah is still on fire with the talent and strength to carry on. You can hear it in the big brand dropping flossing of the 'Mi' opener, because after all, when it comes to this diva, all that matters is Mi-mi, and that iconic voice and glass shattering falsetto. Or the cinematic single 'Type Dangerous' with its big budget, blockbuster bluster, and host of rap remixes. Sweet singles come in thick and fast like the best in years 'Sugar Sweet', featuring Shenseea and Kehlani, and the latest 'Play This Song' (which you really should) with the amazing Anderson .Paak (who also gets 'In Your Feelings'), with a music video that's literally just premiered after the album, this New Music Friday. Yet for all this LP gives us, dialled up to eleven tracks, a week after the Spinal Tap sequel, it's when Mariah praises God through her gospel with The Clark Sisters ('Jesus I Do'), that things get the most beautiful.
Eric B. should still be President, and that track with Rakim is dangerously sampled. It's a grand return that leaves the fans that have never left, paid in full, whilst critics that want to complain with their hands in pockets, are just coming up with lint. All the way to the album title curtain, this album has something to give with soul, disco and funk. But when this butterfly takes Wing(s) on a Paul McCartney cover, co-written by Linda McCartney, that's when 'My Love' (hers) does it good. A timeless classic that sounds as good as their first time you heard it, the very moment the first chord comes into play. It may just be Mariah Carey's best take since her and Sisqo of Dru Hill actually honoured Prince properly with 'The Beautiful Ones' (on some Ginuwine 'When Doves Cry' proportions...if you know that story). That would be a tough one to beat if this diva didn't believe that 'Nothing Is Impossible' with her own latest beautiful ballad in a deluxe discography of them. Although the R&B genre blends so many genres on this one, this is her lane, taking her back home to the foundations she built.
'Confetti and Champagne' reigns on this celebration, as all things are popped, proposing a toast to a G.O.A.T. For years she's being giving the likes of Busta Rhymes and Jadakiss hits. Holding her own next to everybody from Whitney Houston to Ol' Dirty Bastard. But to have her back, like she never left, or aged a day, is the sweetest fantasy. The fine wine continues on 'I Won't Allow It', where this MC sings, "Whatcha gonna do when your mind is blown/And your heart explodes and your body's cold/Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do/Whatcha gonna do when we go our separate ways/And you see me outside with my billion dollar bae/Please enjoy your Chick-fil-A". Oof! Now that's a roast for you chickens, like the time a certain rapper was 'Obsessed'. Ending beefs with paltry competition via poultry? That's MC. The best put down since Shakira talked about trading in a Rolex for a CASIO. Yet, I rock a Casio every day, and yes, I am actually talking about the watches. But forget all that. We're here for Mariah. The fire is never going out. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'Type Dangerous', 'Sugar Sweet (Feat. Shenseea & Kehlani)', 'My Love'.
Spin This: Mariah Carey - 'Butterfly'.
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
LIVE REVIEW: NORAH JONES @ Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan (24/09/25)
4/5
Friday, 19 September 2025
REVIEW: LABRINTH - PRELUDE E.P.
4/5
Past Is Prelude
Enter the labyrinth, like Bowie, of Timothy Lee McKenzie's world of sound and vision, and you'll see more than a man who set off an 'Earthquake' up in here on the 'Electronic Earth' of his debut album, after backing the best U.K. rapper at the time, Tinie Tempah's 'Frisky' and 'Pass Out'. Labrinth went on to score more collaborative classics ('Beneath Your Beautiful' with Emeli Sandé). All before his career went nuclear and was sealed seven years after his dynamite debut. In 2019, not only did he release his stunning sophomore set 'Imagination & The Misfit Kid', on his way to being the day and night Cudi of the U.K., he also formed an LSD supergroup with sensational singer Sia and prolific producer Diplo. And if that wasn't enough, he also scored the soundtrack to the epic 'Euphora' series on HBO, starring fellow first-name terms, Zendaya, crashing Coachella last year to perform songs off the second season soundtrack. Labrinth also got back in the lab for that, all before giving us the 'Ends & Begins' of his last album.
Now, fresh out of 'The Kitchen' soundtrack for Netflix, one of the hardest working and most in-demand artists around has even more heat with his new 'Prelude' EP that promises more this New Music Friday. On the same day that Nine-Inch Nails hammer down their new 'Daft Punk' replacing soundtrack for 'Tron: Ares', Labrinth gets cinematic too, even more compellingly so. Eight wonders of sonic tracks that track the mind and all the dark depths and new paths forged ahead. After a distorted 'Sophisticated People' into that doesn't let you in, Tim 'Pull(s) Me In' with exactly that track. This pink Cosmic Opera House record in Roman Numerals then gives us the ultimate 'Pick Me Up', singing "oh no" over operatic grand gestures of sound. It's a 'Joy' to behold, like the next number you'll be singing until the heavens open up with snow this Christmas over stirring stings. That inspired interlude is then followed by 'Can't Cure This' where Labrinth warns us, "stupid motherf#####/money can't solve this/people talking s###/money can't cure this". Repeating what sounds like the halfway house of "bank" and "pain." Like it's one and the same. It is.
It's a 'Wonder' we can go on, until another instrumental is exactly that in lifting us up to a better place. It feels like it's taking you to another dimension in this sonic space. All the way to a 'House On The Hill', like a Springsteen mansion. This dance number feels euphoric, and we intended to say exactly that. You can find this record spinning under the lonely nights of a 'Euphoria' nightclub, neon exposing all the darkness. "Take me where the sun don't grind/ I'm gonna set your night on fire/I'm gonna bring you all to life/Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah". This is the 'Moment Of Peace' you all need in release and closing. "Hey, how you doing? This is Labrinth. I wrote this piece of music to help calm you down. So take a deep breath, close your eyes if you feel too, and allow yourself to drift into the moment. Breathe." What more can we say than that? He's doing it for us. The electronic earth still rotates around his beat. Is he a singer? Is he still a rapper? Nah, he's an artist. Watch him paint the perfect picture, because this is just a prelude, but a powerful one at that. Now go on and enjoy the rest of your day. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'The Joy', 'Can't Cure This', 'Moment Of Peace'
Spin This: Labrinth - 'Euphoria (Original Score From The HBO Series)'
REVIEW: NINE INCH NAILS - TRON: ARES (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)
4/5
Legacy
Disney really did it in 2010. Feeling before its time, of its time and ahead of it, the Mickey Mouse company released the digital delight of 'Tron: Legacy', the IMAX ready sequel to the 1982 cult hit that looked like a board game in relation to this videographers dream. The massive movie brought Jeff Bridges back (duuuude), de-aged him in classic CG, turned Olivia Wilde into an instant star, and character actor Michael Sheen into Ziggy Stardust. The iconic Lightcycle bikes in baby blue and their neon streams have now even inspired their own Disney World ride in Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland. Like Garrett Hedlund, this legend making 'Legacy' looked great, and it sounded the part too. Thanks to an absolutely amazing, award nominated soundtrack from French electronic duo Daft Punk, mixing orchestra with their signature sound.
No matter how much you stay up all night for good fun, you can't get that lucky again, as the iconic Sia identity sparing chrome domes of these punks have been hung up. Now, the much-delayed and long-awaited, 'Legacy' sequel is almost here as October's very own, it seems like the Lightcycles have been knocked off the grid like Peter Griffin. Fifteen years later, 'Tron: Ares' has managed to bring Bridges back again, not to mention, the classic look of the '82 original. But that blue washing dark red hides some devil in their details. Leading man and star of the show Jared Leto ('Blade Runner 2049'), who also moonlights as the lead singer of Thirty Seconds to Mars, is clouded in a controversy and allegations of abuse and even more brutal behaviour. More than the movie, we hope these things aren't true, because no one should have to go through this. Buzz has picked up for this movie ever since the teaser trailer saw cop cars chopped in two and 'Past Lives' breakout star Greta Lee run away from a Tron battleship...on earth. The game has changed, as the music that won't stop has too.
Sounding familiar, but not Daft, right at the end of the trailer for this film that also stars Quicksilver Evan Peters and 'The X-Files' legend Gillian Anderson, we see a familiar logo in 'Ares' red. NIN. Yeah, those 'Fragile' industrial rockers are back in the new industry they've broken into. Nine-Inch Nails are heavy metal legends, but Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross got even more iconic when they started making music for movies. Breaking through with a clear and crisp sound that scored soundtracks for the likes of David Fincher and his 'Gone Girl' and 'The Social Network'. Now, the pair are everywhere and in everything in a formidable filmography that even rivals their definitive discography. And fresh off of the 'Ghosts' of 2020, the Nails are back to hammer down more legacy making music that honours both Daft Punk and the movie's signature style, all whilst finding their own lane. The 'Init' introduction gives way to a 'Forked Reality' fork in the road where this Nine-Inch takes its own instrumental direction. You can hear it in the 'Echoes' of what's to come. 'This Changes Everything'. Literally and figurately in song.
The atmospheric 'In The Image Of' takes you higher in Tron tones to a world above our reality. Whereas 'I Know You Can Feel It' could equally find itself on a regular NIN studio album. Singing, "Just like that, it began, appetite emotion/All alone, all in time, appetite emotion". Besides, this is a band whose, 'We're In This Together', hits made 'Avengers: Age Of Ulton' trailers. 'Permanence' feels exactly like that, before it's interrupted by the next infiltrating track. You can imagine '100% Expendable' playing as Ares shatters into pixels again and again. The 'Still Remains' lifting you up above the piano notes that strike a chord. They're 'Building Better Worlds' here and nothing sounds better, like nothing looks better than the amazing 'Ares' on screen, continuing 'Tron's' legacy. 'Target Identified' sounds like Nine-Inch Punk, just like 'What Have You Done?' sounds like Tron Inch Nails. There's more to come for this 'Ghost In The Machine', 'Out In The World'. Yet the real headliners come in the form of the hits. There's a big single ('As Alive As You Need Me To Be') and a beautiful collaboration with Judeline ('Who Wants To Live Forever'), but it's the influential instrumentals that are the most inspired. Even if the 'Shadows Over Me' fading this 24-track album to black tell us more. "(God) I've got a shadow over me/I am not what I appear to be/And I know that you believe in me/And it feels so real, and it feels so re-." This one fights for the users. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'As Alive As You Need Me To Be', 'Who Wants To Live Forever (Feat. Judeline)', 'Building Better Worlds'.
Spin This: Daft Punk - 'Tron: Legacy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'.
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
LIVE REVIEW: SMASHING PUMPKINS @ Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan (17/09/25)
4/5
Friday, 12 September 2025
REVIEW: JERMAINE DUPRI - MAGIC CITY
3.5/5
REVIEW: KING PRINCESS - GIRL VIOLENCE
4/5
Friday, 29 August 2025
REVIEW: THE HIVES - THE HIVES FOREVER FOREVER THE HIVES
4/5
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
LIVE REVIEW: SAKANACTION - SAKANAQUARIUM @ K-Arena, Yokohama, Japan (26/08/25)
5/5
Sunday, 24 August 2025
REVIEW: JON BATISTE - BIG MONEY
4/5
Money Talks
Money sings. And in a time when we should all be speaking up for Colbert's show being cancelled by the powers that be (evil), Stephen's former bandleader continues fighting the good fight. It's not even been a year (November) since Jon Batiste gave us his twinkling take on his 'Beethoven Blues', the 'Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1', that came a calendar after the Oscar winning 'Soul' singer's 'World Music Radio', yet here we are. And we didn't forget his 'Saturday Night' live soundtrack, either. This week, Batiste is banking on 'Big Money' with his ninth wonder of an album, featuring nine wonderful songs that will surely track the top ten for the record. One that is reminiscent of the great Raphael Saadiq's (surely a muse) former iTunes album of the year, 'The Way I See It'. Not to mention it's fellow throwback follow-up, 'Stone Rollin''. All the way down to the guitar grabbing black and white album artwork. Singing to the heavens with the purple reign of big, bold type.
Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Willie Nelson, Lenny Kravitz, Lana Del Rey, and Mavis Staples. Jon has recorded with them, and many more. But on this set he brings three big and diverse artists to the boil of this genre trip across the generations, closing with the No ID and Billy Bob Bo Bob assisted 'ANGELS' taking wing. Opening with the outstanding Andra Day track to 'LEAN ON MY LOVE', like when the great Bill Withers wasn't strong. But it's the friend Jon Batiste has in Randy Newman that really takes us back from a 'LONELY AVENUE'. You may know, 'Toy Story', but do you know the sheer greatness of the legend with the iconic voice behind the song that showed even a cowboy and spaceman could get along? "Now my room has got two windows/But the sun never comes shinin’ through/You know it’s always dark/It’s dreary since I broke it off with you/I live on a lonely avenue." Leaning over the piano of an instant vintage, absolute classic.
The Bible-belt thumping title-track and its throwback music video, nuanced in nostalgia, will leave you stepping. 'PETRICHOR' is a call to nature, and to nurture such ("swim in the ocean/What's left of her"). Whilst 'DO IT ALL AGAIN' circles back to "Coming and going/We reap what we're sewing/On time like a tambourine/Older and younger/You don't have to wonder what you mean to me, yeah." The 'PINNACLE' of this album is exactly that. Or maybe it's 'MAYBE'. Either way, 'AT ALL' costs, Batiste's biggest record since the one he sang for Jamie Foxx is money. Harmonizing with lyrics like, "I ain't gonna take this flight to London/Tomorrow/This is not a negotiation/I made the call/She understands me/But she's not all of y'all/If she understands me/Then you don't have to, at all." Years after his 'American Symphony' documentary movie on Netflix and all that he and his brave author partner Suleika Jaouad have fought through, there's another battle waging. One for America's heart, and who better than this man with soul to bring the big, good times back? Put your money down on it. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'LONELY AVENUE (Feat. Randy Newman)', 'PINNACLE', 'MAYBE'
Spin This: Raphael Saadiq - 'The Way I See It'
REVIEW: KID CUDI - FREE
3.5/5
Scott Free
One of the craziest things that came out of the Diddy case, aside from the sheer weight of all the evil wrongdoings, was the testimony that the disgraceful hip-hop mogul planted a bomb in Scott Mescudi, AKA Kid Cudi's car. All because the rapper was seeing Sean Combs ex-girlfriend Cassie. Truly terrible. It's enough to drive a sane man crazy, there the great Scott was, showing up for his day in court to testify against the man he said looked like a "Marvel super villain" after said event. It's safe to say, after this, and the social media firestorm, Cudi could do with a breather. And he finds it 'Free' of all this, on his first album since last year's 'Insano' release. An incredible follow-up (especially with the 'Nitro Mega' version like Lupe Fiasco's 'Samurai DX', also released this New Music Friday, like Ghostface and Jon Batiste) to his 'Entergalactic' soundtrack to the man on the moon's Netflix animated movie.
This Wicked Awesome/Republic pop rock album finds itself on the green of Scott's back nine following his appearance in Adam Sandler's 'Happy Gilmore 2' (doesn't beat his one in the 'Bill & Ted' sequel though, for Keanu's classic line). Finding 'Neverland' and a 'Grave' new single to go along with the latest, 'Mr. Miracle', that should keep you up to speed on just how this Kid made it through all of this. After this epic, eleventh (WHAT?!) album's instrumental intro, 'Echoes Of The Present', Cudi starts off strong with two singles for the boards. All before this album, with no guest features a la J. Cole, gets into Scott Mescudi's 'Opiate' love addiction. "Tenderness entering/Just a kiss, damn it, it's the beginning/To mean something/Caught the flame." From there he goes 'Deep Diving' with Jean, not Jon, Baptiste. Right out the blue sky cloudy doorway of a 'Truman Show', Jim Carrey like leap of faith. And in case he doesn't see ya, good afternoon, good evening and good night.
All the way down to 'Submarine', Cudi submerges, serving "Way too deep to ever reach the summer breeze/God save me/I'm too deep, a psychedelic dream, I'm too deep" lyrics before the dust of 'Ashes' proceeds the 'Grave'. If you've heard it in a 'Past Life', like Maggie Rogers, then you know you don't even have to say it. Sometimes life is just that hard, but when you leave the past where it belongs, you can begin anew. The poet's prose gets profound from the Sia like jump of, "A chandelier on a thin string, hangin' onto reality/I'm losin' faith more than time bleeds, at least I still got some air to breathe/Grain of sand in the hourglass, havin' fun while I still can/I wanna know what the end say, but I can't rush the story." 'Picnic In Paris' is a perfect getaway, as is the 'Stargazing' that comes before the closing 'Salt Water' for the man who has no more salty tears. "Is this thing real or placebo?/Walk through the clouds out a blue door/Can't lose the dreams that I reach for." It's real Kid. Cudi is free. Like Diddy should never be. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'Neverland', 'Truman Show', 'Picnic In Paris'
Spin This: Kid Cudi - 'Entergalactic'
Saturday, 23 August 2025
REVIEW: GHOSTFACE KILLAH - SUPREME CLIENTELE 2
4/5
Thursday, 14 August 2025
REVIEW: CHANCE THE RAPPER - STAR LINE
4/5
REVIEW: MAROON 5 - LOVE IS LIKE
3.5/5
Friday, 8 August 2025
REVIEW: BABYMETAL - METAL FORTH
4/5
Thursday, 7 August 2025
REVIEW: THE BLACK KEYS - NO RAIN, NO FLOWERS
4/5