Over the course of his 3 albums, two on major labels, as Mat has become more well-known, the character and novelty of his music has been sucked out. Each successive album has had less and less of his trademark ‘rapping’ and roughness around until we are presented with “City of Black and White” where I find it to be more of the standardized pop that I didn’t care for in some tracks on the first big label release “Nothing left to lose” rather that the rhythmic and grooving tunes that gave him character on the “Bullet” album. This is a disappointing trend seen with many rises to stardom. I’m sad to see this happening to one of my favorite artists. No song particularly sticks out and most sound fairly similar to me all while trying to sound as “pretty-pop” as possible.
City Of Black White

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