It’s genuinely a masterpiece, the fact it’s that long and yet feels like it’s over in a second speaks volumes. Still not over them releasing their best album this far into their career.
Can I just say how incredibly frustrating it is to me that we live in a world where this verse: 'The view of the hills is different from a window In Mid-City The loneliness in you is like a tempo You keep steady' and this one: 'I go like, yeah, when the cash come Nuff being cool, I'ma have fun Summon my force by the bag, uh Might go to Met Gala with my main shawty And we dressed up like Daft Punk Hate you, we swervin' that Aston Martin, no Gina' can exist in the same song and no one bats an eyelid? What happened?!
I don't see a problem with both co-existing. Neither lyrics are groundbreaking and are typical of both musicians. If anything I roll my eyes when non-Black folks use AAVE (which both of them are doing in this song), but it's so omnipresent that I ignore it.
They should push the title track. It's holding up really great at #2 on Spotify with 5m streams and counting.
Love that Hikki shops at Waitrose! Just watching the Coachella performance and was expecting all the feels when they opened with Simple & Clean. Thought I was over Kingdom Hearts these days! Not gonna lie I still think they should not bother doing the theme for KH4!
Posted this in the vinyl thread as well but, they all came! Can’t wait to listen to each one in order. I tend to jump around playing random songs and haven’t given a proper listen to the albums in awhile, BAD Mode the exception.
The vinyls look gorgeous! Something about seeing Distance/Deep River/Ultra Blue next to each other - what an era! Think I need to listen to these albums back to back!
Have I been listening to their English stuff all week because of this tweet? Yes, yes I have. On and On and This One (Crying Like a Child) remain amazing, and I will not hear a word against them.
https://erj.lnk.to/G6t5Wd Air Studios audio available on streaming too, they're being so generous with content this era!
Returning to this album after a little while and I can still comfortably say this is album of the year.
I’ve finally listened to Bad Mode and it’s officially my second favourite album this year after Preacher’s Daughter. It’s a beautiful album, simply stunning.
