Somewhere out there, there’s a better and more focused version of MUSIC; the Opium Discord channels are surely hard at work piecing that together. And somewhere else, there’s a version that is safer and bleeds the eccentricities out of him. The MUSIC that does exist is somewhere in between, a flawed, contradictory, inflated, loud, exciting, mainstream-ified, uncomfortable, nostalgic event, but one that is still fixated on the music above all. It might go down as the purest distillation of Playboi Carti. - Alphonse Pierre for Pitchfork.
