Lav's Music Corner

While the first month of this new decade never really knocked me off my feet, there were still plenty of worthwhile releases, which is especially impressive given how little material usually comes out around this time. Poppy dives further into the world of experimental rock than ever before penning some of her hardest hitting metal tunes and continuing to push the envelope of her rock and pop crossovers on this very solid outing. Review Beach Slang returns with a record that throws out the old and replaces it with the even older as they channel the bouncy dad rock of the 1970's to mixed results.  Review Selena's return had the potential to be a big one but with an incredibly hit or miss tracklist Rare  is more like listening to a rushed album than one five years in the making.  Review Eminem has some great beats from Dr. Dre and plenty of great features from hip hop icons new and old, but unfortunately none of this can stop him from being himself...

Wu-Tang Clan is a legendary New York hip hop collective that truly needs no introduction. The group released one of the most acclaimed and influential hip hop albums of all time in the early 90s and the individual members have a laundry list or critical and commercial successes in their back catalogs. A handful of the remaining members of Wu-Tang got together to release a brief 20 minute EP of new material inspired by the upcoming Showtime documentary series about the group. Review By Lavender: Since the moment in 1993 when Wu-Tang dropped one of my favorite albums of all time Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)  we have had a near constant stream of good to amazing content from the various members. Liquid Swords, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Supreme Clientele and Return To The 36 Chambers  proved that the various members had a lot left in the tank, but as far as collective Wu-Tang project they haven't really released much else that is essential. Due to the complex and intr...

Czarface Meets Ghostface is a collaborative hip hop album between hip-hop supergroup Czarface, made up of producer 7L, MC Esoteric and former Wu-Tang member Inspectah Deck, with another former Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah. The project is a spiritual sequel to last years Czarface, Meets Metalface collaboration with MF DOOM. Given the classic rap pedigree of the MCs and the consistent success of all involved in recent years and collaborations there was no reason not to expect high quality performances across the board on this collaboration. Review By Lavender: Both of the Czarface albums are good, the MF DOOM collab album last year was good, Ghostface Killah is good, all of his collab albums are good, Wu-Tang is good. I expected this to be good. It is good. This review is gonna be redundant because I know this is a good album and so do you. Nothing you'll hear on here is new from the oldhead inspired lowkey beats and superhero themes to the tight lyricism and c...