Migos' follow up to Culture isn't so much an album (or a double album) as much as it's a collection of songs. In the streaming era though, this is what passes for an album. Which isn't to speak negatively of it - there's a lot of good here, although it could have been hacked down into one really tight album realistically. Migos are almost like shapeshifters though. Any song can be a Migos track. Or, Migos can make any song a Migos track. Does that make sense? It's impressive at how quickly they churn these out and there's some quality here for sure - "Walk It Talk It" is already drilled into our brains not to mention "Stir Fry", "MotorSport", "Notice Me", "White Sand" - even the intro ("Higher We Go") is radio ready. Migos are a well oiled machine at this point and they do what they do well.
I keep up with Sunburned only intermittently these days, they seem to be taking a more rock-ist approach lately. Like this one. Each track is about 4-5 minutes of pretty ramshackle, jammy, funky, boogie rock...almost spoiled by the throaty, beery vocals shouted over the top of each one of these tunes with nonsensical platitudes. I almost shut it off after a couple tracks but I stuck it out and kinda came around on some level. I was oddly reminded of My War era Black Flag sludge punk. The band sez "these Holy Grail fueled recordings are a mix of iphone and zoom recordings run through garageband, reaper and some plug-ins. We're still working on the much more listener-friendly Black Dirt session..." and point taken, listener friendly this ain't.
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