Truth be told when I took a sneak peak of this week’s releases, I was not especially excited. Though the pickings were slim here are a couple albums by some household names.
Paul McCartney- McCartney III
Paul McCartney sang and wrote songs and played bass in the Beatles. This is his 18th solo album. He is playing the instruments and singing the songs on this album and he did a good job, good job PM.
Eminem- Music to be Murdered By - Side B (Deluxe Edition)
Eminem is prolific if nothing else, in both tracks and lyrics within those tracks. This year Eminem release “Music to Be Murdered By” and this is an accompanying album, 16 additional joints. Do Eminem’s lyrics contain misogyny and homophobia? Yes. Eminem admits to a borderline personality disorder diagnosis on this album and it makes sense. Eminem has no filter and its part of what makes his music appealing, and these songs attest to that. Eminem covers a lot of territory, from his two decades of sobriety and politics to his beef with Machine Gun Kelly, and it is done cleverly. The album features anyone you wanna hear a feature of if you like current hip-hop and some great beat and production work. I suspect I will listen to this album hard for a day or 4 and then set it aside and rediscover it at some point when I am feeling like a frustrated white man and it will be a glove that fits perfect. Fave track currently, “Gnat.”