1001 Albums Summary

Listened to this one plenty of times, my favourite Kendrick album and I think his best. Make sure M.a.a.d city is played on a subwoofer, the 808s are impossible to hear on normal speakers It's well written, even though he uses a lot of voice manipulation it doesn't feel too goofy, the beats are sick, the stories are honest; all in all a fantastic album. The features a great too, maybe not as much Mary Blige on now or never, but the rest are great. GOATed album

A fantastic album start to finish. It feels refreshing having music that sounds like it's played by humans, with slight errors in timing, pitch and the instruments, particularly the piano, sound old and used. It feels like each song has haphazard layers on top of each other but through the chaos of reverbing vocals, drums that come in seemingly randomly with loud, heavy mixing and orchestral strings every now and then, it just works. And the subject matter can just be about anything, with songs like buggin and spiderbite. Then there are moments where something just clicks and changes, a key change or addition of the strings, and it switches to something beautiful like sleeping in the roof, reminiscent of some Syd Barrett era pink Floyd stuff. Loved it

Straight up one of the best albums ever by songwriting and singing ability Gone too soon RIP Shame about corpus Christi carol being a bit slower and not really the same calibre to the others but still, there's no one like him and I doubt there will be.

Fantastic showing, I'd never even heard of them and really enjoyed the album

Banger