Cordavision Music Reviews

Arca Week continues with KicK iii , where I start to feel the tiniest bit sorry for straight people. You know, as I said with KICK ii yesterday, I was kind of disappointed by it and I actually got pretty worried about the rest of this week-long trek. Luckily, in casual terms, THIS SHIT SLAPS. Holy christ, man. This might be Arca’s best album. It’ll be hard to top this one. Even though I had said that KICK ii was experimental, that might as well be top 40 pop compared to this. It’s so loud and abrasive that it could honestly pass as a harsh noise outside of an electronic album. Along with that, she’s rapping on this. Like, rapping on it incredibly well. My personal favorite track has to be the instrumental “Fiera,” which genuinely might be one of my favorite songs of the year right now. It’s genuinely psychedelic and if you’re not into this kind of music, it will be very VERY hard for you to get into it. If KICK ii was the countdown, KicK iii is the explosion. This is truly incredib...

Fuck, man… This is gonna be rough to talk about. Injury Reserve is an Arizona rap group with members Ritchie With a T, Parker Corey, and Stepa J. Groggs formed in 2012 and had a good amount of projects before breaking through with their 2016 mixtape, Floss . It was a great breath of fresh air into the underground scene. In 2019, they ended up capitalizing on it with their self-titled debut album, which ended up not only pushing the group closer to the mainstream but it’s also one of the best albums of the 2010s. It’s a bit of a hot take, but it’s that good, trust me. The next summer, Groggs suddenly and tragically passed away. To my knowledge, the cause of death was never revealed. Because of how integral Groggs was to the group, many assumed that this would be where the journey of Injury Reserve would end. That wouldn’t be the case. Over a year after Groggs’ passing, their second studio album, By the Time I Get to Phoenix , was officially announced, and with its lead single “Knees,” i...