Filler is never a good thing on album, as it hurts the quality of the album as well as the artist’s body of work.įuture could have cut five to seven tracks on this album and it would not have lost anything. Thirteen is the average number, but the ten to fifteen track range is ideal on any project unless there is a necessary process. Having twenty tracks on an album is a dangerous prospect. There are some entertaining lyrics and clever wordplay on the album but mostly it is weighed down by the filler and basic lyrics found more commonly throughout, making that rare bit of creativity more welcome. Is it necessary to have that amount of sexist rhetoric in the album? Some is expected in the genre, but bucking trends could prove to be beneficial.
“Flexing” about money and being able to get any girl you want gets stale real fast, and the inability to connect themes throughout the album is disappointing. This is half due to the mumble rap style, half due to the production and editing of Future’s voice sounding really distorted throughout, a poor stylistic choice. The lyrics, for the most part, are uninspired and hard to understand unless particular attention is paid to them.
The last track, “Tricks on Me,” is great but having to slog through boring “banger” after boring “banger”, it is not worth the wait. The few features by Young Thug, Gunna, and Travis Scott don’t really do too much for the album. The first few tracks entertain but after five or six songs, the album takes a nosedive. When Future decides to open up about his emotions on “Never Stop”, it is such a promising start to the album. One track will finish and the next will start, and it is hard to tell that it is a new track at all. Some of the work with the synth and background instrumentals are fantastic and create an interesting emotion behind the track, yet these are few and far between. There is not a lot of uniqueness in this aspect, and it really hurts the ability to distinguish between each track on the album. Don’t let this distract you from the fact that every single drum beat sounds like a variation of the previous. The synth strings and brass found on a few tracks creates a somber atmosphere, adding to the emotion. Some tracks include interesting, lighter instrumentals. The production on this album is a mixed bag. Future found success on his recent collaboration with Juice WRLD, but on his own feels like he is in a creative funk. The album is a jumbled fusion between his last two projects as the extended title of the album is Future Hndrxx presents: The Wizrd, using both of his personas on the record.įamiliar themes such as drugs and money are present and, really, this album feels stale. Future seems to have used the wrong incantation on his seventh studio album The WIZRD.