On her sixth LP, the Welsh avant rocker uses time-honored, tragic influences to help her make sense of the urgent, unfurling present
Requiem feels more of a nostalgia trip as opposed to a new musical journey He has finally, totally lost himself in malleable self-mythology This is Ross at his least cohesive and most clueless since his 2006 debut, Port of Miami. If the 62-minute Mastermind is bloated, it’s a healthy, controlled bloat He’s badly in need of reinvention after running out of recipes for his gangster shtick, but he’s too set in his ways to change direction six albums in His bland cocaine narratives lack the compelling authenticity of Nas’s With its gritty raps and loud soul interjections, Mastermind is the closest he’s come to making a straightforward New York-style rap record The pieces tie together, and at the end of the day, there’s no denying that Mastermind is a fun album Ross has transformed from one of hip hop’s greatest frauds to one of its greatest guilty pleasures
Mastermind scales back on the absurdity, settling for familiar modes like Biggie roleplay (on the shameless, fascinatingly derivative "Nobody") and soporific self-pityĪll the pieces of a game-changing rap LP are there, just a little jumbled So, really, it’s all down to Rick and whether he shows up.
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