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Nov 17, 2022‘The Family’ is the perfect BROCKHAMPTON album. It has a flawless balance on energy fuelled moments with more melancholic ones, and the departure in sound from previous efforts makes for a compelling full listen.
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Nov 18, 2022The Family is a brutally honest high-point to cap an amazing body of work.
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Nov 18, 2022The 17-track record is as hyperactive, heartfelt and honest as we’ve come to expect from the group.
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Nov 18, 2022This pared down approach will likely disappoint some fans who hoped to hear final contributions from vocalists Champion, Joba, Merlyn Wood and Dom McLennon. But this is Abstract’s moment to write the final Brockhampton chapter, and it’s heavy on the confessions.
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Nov 18, 2022BROCKHAMPTON have consistently been on an upward trajectory, improving upon each previous effort with the maturity and skill of much more seasoned artists. Ending this part of their story with grace and simplicity, The Family is not only a thank-you letter to fans but to the guys themselves -- a band of brothers who came, conquered, and clocked out while still on top.
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Nov 17, 2022It sounds like The Family was BROCKHAMPTON’s most overtly challenging album to make, saturated with honesty even when it’s difficult. But there’s a sense that going out with intention freed them up creatively like never before.
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Nov 22, 2022The record has a calculated fishbowl quality, chronicling the group’s rise and accelerated decline through the lens of a mercurial Svengali. It’s a victory lap with a slightly bitter aftertaste, like champagne left uncorked in a trashed hotel suite.
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Nov 17, 2022A record that plays like an unwieldy and unravelling ode to all the twists and turns of Brockhampton’s journey.
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Nov 17, 2022The biggest lapse on The Family, unfortunately, is that it’s one-sided. We don’t get to hear from the other members about how they feel it all went wrong. We’re not given a collage, just one vivid picture from Abstract’s perspective.
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Nov 17, 2022The album is so fragmented and so determined to forsake easy pleasures, with most of the songs hovering near the 90-second mark, that it comes to suggest a hip-hop version of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention releases from the 1960s. ... For better or worse, The Family may, paradoxically, be Brockhampton’s most honest and adventurous effort since their debut.
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Positive: 11 out of 14
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Mixed: 2 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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Aug 12, 2023Everything comes to an end. I loved this album in spite of quite under production
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Nov 26, 2022
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Nov 24, 2022This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.