Mehan Jayasuriya
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Portland, OR, United States
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Past articles by Mehan:
Slowthai: Ugly Album Review
The British rapper’s third album is likely to be his most polarizing: He trades rapping and electronic beats for ballads and rage rock. The results are largely underwhelming. → Read More
Boldy James / Real Bad Man: Killing Nothing Album Review
The prolific Detroit rapper continues his dazzling run with yet another album of detail-rich, tightly-constructed street rap. → Read More
Listen to “Great Mass of Color” by Deafheaven
After a decade spent as one of metal’s biggest crossover successes, the band completely changes course on this soaring new single. → Read More
Young Thug / Gunna / Young Stoner Life: Slime Language 2 Album Review
Read Mehan Jayasuriya’s review of the album. → Read More
Duma: Duma Album Review
The Kenyan noise band’s debut is inventive and abrasive, a timely distillation of global chaos and techno-dystopian dread. → Read More
Future: High Off Life Album Review
The Atlanta icon releases another hour of music rendering tortured hedonism with painterly detail, meticulous production, and melancholy melody. → Read More
Lil Uzi Vert: Eternal Atake (Deluxe)
The Philly rapper’s Eternal Atake victory lap feels like a collection of outtakes, but the high points are thrilling. → Read More
Cousin Stizz: Trying To Find My Next Thrill Album Review
On his second album, the Boston rapper embraces his strengths, grows into his voice as a writer and draws lessons from his come-up. → Read More
WHY?: AOKOHIO Album Review
Yoni Wolf and his band switch up their approach with bite-sized songs, a visual album, and an uncharacteristic focus on the past. → Read More
Blu / Oh No: A Long Red Hot Los Angeles Summer Night Album Review
Evoking the golden age of LA hip-hop with rapid-fire rhymes, vivid set pieces, and sample-centric beats, the rapper finally offers a proper follow-up to an ill-fated opus. → Read More
Lip Talk: D A Y S Album Review
Perhaps familiar from her time in Okkervil River, the multi-instrumentalist builds fascinating webs of sound around skeletal songs on her solo debut. → Read More
Ryan Hemsworth: Elsewhere Album Review
The Canadian DJ’s most polished solo release yet is an album of catchy, globe-trotting pop that showcases his talents as a songwriter, producer and curator. → Read More
“Special Girl” [ft. SK & Tomggg] by Ryan Hemsworth Review
“Special Girl” is the sound of Hemsworth hitting his stride as a songwriter → Read More
“Mood Ring” [ft. Pusha-T] by Reese LaFlare Review
Much like the ever-changing colors of its namesake, “Mood Ring” is a rap song with no fixed state → Read More
“It’s a Slime” [ft. Lil Uzi Vert] by Young Thug Review
As it turns out, Young Thug’s latest release, Slime Language, is being billed as a compilation for his label, YSL Records, and not a proper Thug album. Throughout, he cedes the spotlight to YSL artists like Gunna, Duke and even his on-again-off-again fiancée Karlae. This is no small feat, given Thug’s huge personality, but it carves out space for his roster to shine. Interestingly, the record’s… → Read More
“100 Sticks” [ft. Young Thug] by G Herbo / Southside Review
Rarely will you hear two talented rappers approach the same beat from such different angles → Read More
Marlowe: Marlowe Album Review
On their first collaborative album, Seattle producer L’Orange and North Carolina rapper Solemn Brigham craft spirited, old-school rap that owes a hefty debt to Madvillain. → Read More
“We Had a Deal” by Father Review
Father knows a thing or two about crafting catchy rap songs → Read More
Prefuse 73: Sacrifices Album Review
Returning to his best-known alias, the veteran hip-hop deconstructionist scales back his approach, but Sacrifices can feel slight, with songs that too often fade into the background. → Read More
“Infrared” by Pusha-T Review
Pusha has words for a lot of his peers on “Infrared,” both kind and barbed → Read More