Album Mode

Cue the filler music! Adriel and Démar are taking a look back into the annals of Album Mode history and to find the best debut projects they've ever reviewed. When you've been podcasting for nearly 5 years, you can do that. We're talking Unknown T, Olivia Rodrigo and of course the goddess, PinkPantheress and more! Timecodes: 5:36 - Framework of the context of the artist 6:28 - The album that is th...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Lucy Dacus' fourth studio album “Forever is a Feeling” how the album is a tone setter for her post Boygenuius and how her lyrical longingness escapes being cheesy. Démar’s rating: 7 / 10 Adriel's rating: 6.5 / 10 The Love List: Ankles, Limerence, Talk, Most Wanted Man Timecodes: 3:25 - Songwriter-type music   5:23 - The reset button and how that affects their car...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Men I Trust's latest studio album “Equus Asinus” how the band's production has shifted in this latest release and how you can get drop a Men I Trust lyric in your relationship to sound poetic. P.S. Where's the Clairo feature?? Démar’s rating: 8 / 10 Adriel's rating: 8 / 10 The Love List: I Come With Mud, Bethlehem, Paul's Theme, Frost Bite, Girl (2025)  Timecodes...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Playboi Carti’s third studio album “Music”, his new deep voice, the album’s incredible production, and how Carti’s aura and influence is pivotal to his fandom. P.S. SWAMP IZZO!!!! Démar’s rating: 7 / 10  Adriel's rating: 4.5 / 10 The Love List: POP OUT, RATHER LIE, MOJO JOJO, WAKE UP F1LTHY, OLYMPIAN, OPM BABI, LIKE WEEZY Timecodes: 6:00 - Hip-hop Christmas song...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Lady Gaga's latest studio album 'Mayhem', how she's navigated her fame throughout her career and why this entire project sounds like it got pulled straight out of the 1980s. P.S. heavy Siouxsie and the Banshees vibes on Abracadabra Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10  Adriel's rating: 7.5 / 10 The Love List: Disease, Die With a Smile, Perfect Celebrity, Vanish into You Time...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Lisa's debut solo studio album 'Alter Ego', how it might be one of the most expensive albums of the year and whether her alter egos are just an excuse for a lack of vision. Démar’s rating: 2 / 10  Adriel's rating: 5.5 / 10 The Love List: Moonlit Floor, Lifestyle, BADGRRRL, New Woman Timecodes: 3:03 - Americans don’t listen to K-Pop 4:00 - Gangnam Style 7:32 - Wha...

This week, Démar and Adriel discuss Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR's collab album '$ome $exy $ongs 4 U', how this album is 10 years too late for old-school Drake fans and why this album is just another milestone in Drake's path of late stage mediocrity. The Love List: NOKIA, DEEPER, SMALL TIME FAME, MOTH BALLS Timecodes 2:24 A lot of Drake fans wanted a Drake PND album 3:12 Listening experience has chang...

After all the dialogue Demar and Adriel drop their thoughts on the Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl performance. They also discuss whether Not Like Us is getting old and whether we should move on from a beef that is nearly a year running. Also the Duo talk about the Latest AJ Tracey and Jorja Smith song 'Crush' bringing back Demar's hot take on Jorja Smith making the wrong genre of music. Timecodes  2:23...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss The Weeknd's sixth studio album 'Hurry Up Tomorrow', how the album feels like a DJ set instead of an album, whether the name retirement is legit and how he's transitioned from R&B to being an electronic artist. Timecodes 1:25 Is the End? 3:03 Dawn FM 8:34 Demar explains   18:27 We just wanna hear The Weeknd talk his shit 20:09 Favourite Weeknd songs 24:30 Wak...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Central Cee's debut studio album 'Can't Rush Greatness', how America cares more about his music than the UK and how he's a pop rapper by UK standards but almost a lyricist in America. P.S. Young Miko just gained two new fans Démar’s rating: 8.5 / 10 Adriel's rating: 7.5 / 10 The Love List: 5 Star, Limitless, Don't Know Anymore, Gen Z Luv, Gata Timecodes 1:27 Albu...

Drake's beef is no longer with Kendrick Lamar, it's with their mutual label UMG and Drake is suing for defamation. Watch as the dynamic duo of Demar and Adriel breakdown what exactly is in the lawsuit documents and what it could mean for hip hop if Drake actually wins the lawsuit. Timecodes: 4:02 Upset at UMG for putting out not like us 4:56 UMG is aware these allegations are false  7:18 If Drake...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Mac Miller's secpmd posthumous album 'Balloonerism', how mac was ahead of his time sonically and his eerie, Tupac-like lyrics. The Love List: Stoned, Mrs. Deborah Downer, 5 Dollar Pony Rides, Rick's Piano, Tomorrow Will Never Know Timecodes: 4:38 - Saved songs 6:05 - Fav Mac Miller album 7:03 - Westside Gunn comparison 8:36 - Growing up between KIDS & Watchin...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Bad Bunny's sixth studio album 'Debí tirador más fotos', his double entendres to Puerto Rico, the album's varied production maintaining its roots and how he's doing what Drake should've done back in 2020. The Love List: The Club, TURiSTA, PIToRRO DE COCO, VOY A LLeVARTE PA PR Timecodes: 4:17 - Not the Highest he peaked on Spotify  7:18 - What are you thinking goi...

LiAngelo Ball just dropped the song of the year and we're only in the third week! Demar and Adriel break it down and how everyone around them was asking for their approval before admitting they liked it. Also the TikTok ban looks like it'll be heading into full effect the duo discuss what that'll mean for music. Lastly Billboard’s Top Artists of the 21st Century drops and they have a laugh. Timeco...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Lil Baby's fourth studio album 'WHAM', his pump fake production, falling behind Gunna and Lil Baby possibly entering the NBA Youngboy zone (also what the NBA Youngboy Zone means). The Love List: I Promise, Listen Up, So Sorry, Streets Colder Timecodes: 6:23 - Street Gossip / not on the train 9:23 - People at that time were touting his rapping ability 10:26 - Why...

Album Mode is joined by its first ever guest, Kyle Parkinson! (@sheeloveskp) It's the end of the year so we've decided to breakdown our favourite music moments of the year and how the landscape has changed. Also Kyle gives us his top 5 albums of the year and exlpains how the UMG pulling its music from TikTok affected him. Strap in for a first ever and maybe first of many! Follow Kyle: Instagram: h...

Finally the episode you've all been waiting for, Album Mode's top 10 albums of 2024! Adriel and Démar list their best albums of the year and hand out some honourable metions to cap off 2024. There's some surprises in both lists so strap in for our year-ender. TIMECODES: 1:25 - 5 Top 10 albums of this year 5:18 - Album from this year that people will remember 6:40 - Lucky Daye 10:40 - We don’t trus...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss the re-release of J Cole's third mixtape 'Friday Night Lights' on Apple Music and Spotfy. The also talk about J Cole being the intial foil to Drake and how underrated J Cole is a producer. Démar’s rating: 8.5 / 10 Adriel's rating: 9 / 10 The Love List: Back to the Topic, Villematic, In The Morning, See World, Too Deep for the Intro TIMECODES: 3:20 - Hip-hop fans...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Kendrick Lamar's sixth studio album 'GNX', Kendrick Lamar allowing himself to make music without an overacrching concept and Kendrick taking his LA centric sound to an international audience. Démar’s rating: 8.5 / 10 Adriel's rating: 7 / 10 The Love List: wacced out murals, squabble up, peekabo, hey now, luther, gloria TIMECODES: 2:17 Jack Antonoff 5:00 At a plac...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Cordae's third studio album 'The Crossroads', why what he raps about hasn't changed since his debut and his features being the stars of his album. Démar’s rating: 6 / 10 Adriel's rating: 6.5 / 10 The Love List: No Bad News, Syrup Sandwiches, Summer Drops, Saturday Mornings TIMECODES: 4:01 - How many Cordae songs do you have liked 7:00 - Young Nudy vs. Denzel Curr...

The latest Grammys nominations just dropped so you know we had to make some predicitions. Since Adriel and Demar have lost all hope in the Grammys ever getting it right, we predict who we think is going to win in the most cynical fashion. TIMECODES: 2:10 - Who was the Grammy’s fav white woman? 2:40 - Context going into the Grammy’s where race does matter 3:08 - Album of the Year always feels like...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss SahBabii's fourth studio album 'Saaheem ', how amazing the prodcution is and his influences have become an unbearing weight around his music. Démar’s rating: 6.5 / 10 Adriel’s rating: 4 / 10 P.S. Belt Boyz, Belt Boyz, Belt Boyz, Belt Boyz The Love List: Belt Boyz, Viking, Mirror Picz, Sylvan Rd Ridin Down Dill TIMECODES: 2:56 - Confused to how we got here 4:42 -...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Lil Uzi Vert's fourth studio album 'Eternal Atake 2', how the rest of rage (and hip hop in general) has passed them by and if they can ever recover from being Kid Cudi'd . Démar’s rating: 3 / 10 Adriel’s rating: 3.5 / 10 P.S. Meteor Man has gotta be Uzi's worst song ever... Right? The Love List: We Good, Chips and Dip, Space High TIMECODES: 1:06 - Demar not looki...

Somehow we've made it to 200 album reviews on Album mode! Shoutout to everyone who's been following us since the days of only video and shoutout to everyone who's subscribed since we've made the jump to YouTube. Here's to 200 more! TIMECODES: 3:14 - Taylor Swift is one of the more interesting ones 4:11 - Cleo Sol/biggest regrets 7:18 - Leaders on the Nas resurgence 8:05 - Separating the narrative...

This week Démar and Adriel discuss Tyler, the Creator's eighth studio album 'CHROMAKOPIA ', how his production has had a slight regression and how Tyler, the Creator has reached a point where we care enough to release such a personal album. Démar’s rating: 7 / 10 Adriel’s rating: 7.5 / 10 The Love List: St. Chroma, Sticky, I Killed You, Balloon, Hey Jane, Darling, I, Thought I Was Dead TIMECODES:...