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This week Démar is on a solo mission discussing Sabrina Carpenter's sixth studio album Short n' Sweet, her underrated cheeky songwriting and her constant tug of war between pop country and pop R&B.

Démar’s rating: 6 / 10

The Love List: Good Graces, Bed Chem, Espresso, Lie To Girls, Don't SmileThe Love List: Losers, What Don't Belong to Me, I Had Some Help

P.S. Sorry for the wait, Doechii review later this week!


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Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet / 2024 / pop, pop country, pop R&B

A quick one for Tinashe and her seventh studio album "Quantum Baby" where wonder if she's the most anonymous popstar of her generation.

TImecodes
1:50 If you are a pop head
2:34 2 on
2:56 Her tone is not distinct enough
4:12 Victoria Monet comparison
5:38  What do you think this album is missing?
5:59 People she should collab with
6:37 Zelda or Super Mario water level 
9:12 Nasty is the worst song / made to be an internet song
11:13 Is this the part of the song that the artist would want you to click on
12:18 Secretly a sexy drill song
14:32 The score
14:55 She great for demo’s 

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Démar’s rating: 7 / 10 Adriel’s rating: 6.5 / 10
The Love List: Thirsty, Red Flags, No Broke Boys, Cross That Line


Tinashe - Quantum Baby / 2024 / pop, drill, R&B, UK garage

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Post Malone's sixth studio album 'F-1 Trillion', his abandonment of artistic risk and Post Malone's journey across genres.

If you want a ticket to the Polaris Prize Gala in Toronto, drop your favourite Canadian album from this year in our Insta DMs!


Démar’s rating: 3.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 6 / 10

The Love List: Losers, What Don't Belong to Me, I Had Some Help

TIMECODES:

1:59 - The lead up to F1-Trillion
3:35 - He’s been sliding from his last few projects
5:38 - Getting to a point where the production is like water  
7:47 - Who is getting platformed in regard to the features
9:04 - Shaboozey feature missing
10:45 - Zach Bryan
13:09 - Pop Country 
14:11 - I heard these in Canadian tire for years 
14:42 - You play this in a place to acquire things
18:27 - Hip-hop didn’t accept him when he came in
21:10 - First time real life is impacting the genre an artist makes
22:04 - Hide my gun  
25:33 - Losers, self-loathing is really good in country music
30:35 - What Don’t Belong to me, upbeat but not upbeat to move to  
32:17 - Song structure is all the same
33:23 - For his career, this is a big win  
36:28 - Drake feature comparison
40:29 - A plus for the demo doesn’t look like us
40:55 - You can’t start somewhere else and go into hip-hop
41:36 - Is he a culture vulture?
44:00 - Interview where he said you can’t be deep in hip-hop
45:54 - We kicked him out
46:52 - The cover
50:20 - The score 


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Post Malone - F-1 Trillion / 2024 / pop, country, pop country

Can't lie to y'all when we saw Drake and 100 gigs in the same sentence we thought it was over for The Boy. Instead it's a BTS data dump with songs attached. Also Rachel Gun drops one of the worst breakdancing performances in Hip-Hop history. Strap in for a weird one! 

Timecodes:
1:15 Drake is someone we don’t always get the BTS
2:04 in-between what Drake should do and what we think he should do
2:38 Tin foil hat theory
4:10 Drake is the artist that would drop a documentary and everyone goes to see it
5:08 Didn’t realize he is the type of artist that records this much of his process
7:34 If he could start again, he would be a dancehall/Afrobeats artist
10:36 This guy has a knife, and I bumped his pocket
11:29 Suffering from putting out too much music
12:53 Talk up
18: 11 To see him viewing himself as MJ from the early days  
20:08 The video of him in the studio talking about Too Good
22:30 Olympics
23:13 Looks bad for PHD’s
24:08 Had the audacity to dance as poorly as she did/made a joke of the culture
25:21 So bad people thought it was a bit
26:56 The internet / real or fake outrage
29:25 For you as a white person on the opposite end of the planet and make a mockery of hip-hop
33:15 Underestimation of the importance
35:27 How important/impactful Canada is to hip-hop

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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Latto's third album 'Sugar Honey Iced Tea', her surprising versatility and adopting Drake and Doja Cat as influences in her music.


Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 8 / 10

The Love List: Big Mama, Blick Sum, H&M, Liquor, S/O to Me, Look What You Did

TIMECODES:

4:00 - Didn’t know she had this in her 
5:57 - Golden Age of Women in Hip-hop
7:13 - Timestamp Drake record?
9:56 - Drake doing ‘Song Cry’ on every album 
15:04 - Meg is in the Logic zone but Latto is not
15:31 - Blick sum  
16:35 - Latto might influence me to carry a gun
17:06 - Missy Elliot  comparison
18:05 - Big Mama - Drakeism
19:08 - PS1 drill
20:30 - There she go / mike jones flip
21:46 - Ear Candy
23:40 - She does stand alone on these influences
28:00 - Their favorite songs were all the samples
30:00 - Lyrics
33:24 - Fuck you with a sexual connotation
35:14 - Some of these lyrics we can’t sing along to
39:38 - Take a shot every time you hear drakes name
42:00 - She doesn’t need anyone on the  hooks/features
47:00 - The cover
51:12 - The score / no skips 


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Latto - Sugar Honey Iced Tea! / 2024 / hip hop, rap, drill, trap

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Ice Spice's debut album 'Y2K!', her being more of a rage/opium artist than drill, lyrical reductionism and whether she's more celebrity than musician.

Démar’s rating: 5.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 4.5 / 10

The Love List: Phat Butt, Popa, Plenty Sun, Bitch I'm Packin'

TIMECODES:

5:35-  First project of hers that people will remember 
6:46 - Stand-out features  
9:30 - Yeat would sound like Mob Deep on this
9:54 - Making Central Cee that type of rapper on this project
10:16 - Ice Spice is staying away from anything lyrical
15:08 - Popa and bitch I’m packing
17:15 - To see that she is capable is a plus; why does only one song connect
19:30 - Maybe drill is not the best place to be in
19:48 - BB belt
28:25 - You’re better off just rapping over the song Lil Wayne-style 
30:50 - Miss Poopy Pants
31:08 - We have to talk about who Ice Spice is
36:47 - Why is she yelling
39:25 - A lot of self-awareness on this project
40:14 - How this affects her career
43:13 - That half of the album I didn’t expect that to come out of her
44:27 - Crushed by her celebrity
47:18 - Being a singles artist is more work
48:21 - She’s almost becoming what Lil Yachty was
48:49 - The cover  
54:28 - The score 

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Ice Spice - Y2K! / 2024 / hip hop, rap, drill, opium, rage

This week Démar and Adriel discuss the supergroup ¥$ (Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign)'s second studio album 'Vultures 2', Kanye's juvenile lyrics, reused motifs and incomplete songs.

Démar’s rating: 2 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 5.5 / 10

The Love List: River, Field Trip

TIMECODES:

1:04 - Surprised it was going to drop/exist 
2:33 - Ye in the NBA Youngboy Zone
3:05 - Vultures
4:25 - Struggle raps for almost an hour
5:30 - Ye was someone who would make an album, scrap the album, and then remake the album
7:40 - similar to White Dress 
10:55 - Don’t want to say he ruined all these songs
11:42 - Ye’s lyrics are almost elementary school
12:20 - The Kanye effect
13:30 - Ye is a producer at this point
16:37 - Does it twice on this album  
20:10 - Ye is in a space where he used to be adjacent to conscious Hip-Hop
22:25 - The rapper version of Ye needs to retire
26:41 - When Ye is involved in any of these songs, he brings too much baggage
27:45 - Sky City
31:45 - All you have is a cool idea / what message
33:00 - Thought of all the artists that sound homogeneous
34:00 - Remember when he used to have a direction in his project
35:10  - He’s looking washed
39:50 - What are we asking of Ye at this point
43:13 - When people get divorced, you go back to the age you got married at
46:12 - in the worst stretch of music in his career
47:24 - Feels like he’s out of ideas
53:44 - The cover
58:45 - The Score
1:02:15 - The Simpsons comparison 


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Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign ¥$ - Vultures 2 / 2024 / hip hop, rap, trap,

This is Album Mode Deluxe, where we talk about and quickly review albums that we haven't gotten a chance to in the past couple of weeks. Clairo, Denzel Curry and Rema are on the docket and only one of them disappointed, guess which one.

TIMECODES:

1:50 - Denzel curry – very good
5:13 - Another step past ZUU / traditional hip-hop album
6:18 - Florida man 7:30 Every song has features
8:00 - A$AP Ferg feature
9:22 - Demar is not A$AP Mob
11:10 - Good gym album
12:32 - Rema album HEIS
17:35 - This is a different version of afro beats
18:55 - Fast but danceable
19:46 - You can’t sing along but you can dance to
20:04 - Clairo Charm album
22:25 - We can find 10 other people that make this sound
22:55 - Do I want a better singer on this?
25:25 - So many people making this music and not evolving
26:43 - Needs to add more collaborators 

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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Childish Gambino's fifth studio album 'Bando Stone & The New World, how progressive his music has become ad his extended run as an artist. And no we don't believe he's gonna retire.

Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 8.5 / 10

The Love List: Lithonia, Talk My Shit, Cruisin', Happy Survival, We Are God

TIMECODES:

2:49 - Wasn’t sure how serious he was
3:30 - Favourite Childing Gambino song
9:00 - Drake comparison
17:08 - Get everything onto the album
18:40 - Cruisin
21:17 - Serene Yeat song
25:24 - Yoshinoya
27:39 - Doesn’t count as vindication
31:26 - Most people are going to know the singles  
31:59 - Can you feel me   
33:53 - Not every song is progressive
36:38 - Abstract reference kings
37:58 - White boy throwing dirt on his name for a think piece
40:06  - Selling Apple stock to buy a farm
43:14 - He is a case study
44:10 - He mentions how disillusioned he is with fame
46:37 - He is an artiste
47:47 - if it is the last project
50:44 - Tyler bar
51:24 - The cover
57:14 - Scores

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Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World / 2024 / hip hop, soul, afrobeats

We're a little over half way through the year so Démar and Adriel look back on some of the best albums so far and which might be a lock for their year-end lists.

TIMECODES:

1:40 - Blue lips
3:00 - Brat
5:10 - Might Delete Later
7:09 - Yeat 2093
7:46 - Defending yourself is the admission of guilt
10:24 - Why Lawd
12:18 - Micah
12:52 - Doubt Demar
15:03 - Algorithm
15:41 - The Album is getting popular for being good 
16:45 - In a Frank Ocean space
17:39 - 2025 Grammy’s
18:30 - Water
20:37 - The Last Dinner Party  
22:29 - We Don't Trust You
24:13 - Honorable mentions 



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