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May 18, 2026The real problem on Iceman is how lifelessly he runs through the formula this time. Apart from the roguish “Ran to Atlanta,” loaded with eerie synths and bouncy blasts of bass, there’s seldom a moment here one could reasonably call catchy.
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May 18, 2026On ICEMAN, we get a few teaspoons of nourishing hilarity, but mostly it’s a long platter of the cold, lumpy self-pity that made us push our chairs back in the first place.
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May 18, 2026Though it’s far from Drake’s most compelling work, Iceman accomplishes the task of clearing the field after he’d been declared, among other things, dead
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May 15, 2026‘Iceman’ is at its most interesting when exploring these conditions and vulnerabilities, but all too often Drake relies on tropes from previous albums to get him over the line, when he should have been trying to burst through the tape.
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May 15, 2026The issue is that the great moments are adrift amid a lot of underwhelming stuff: filler along the lines of Janice STFU (which lazily interpolates a very old and well-known Lykke Li chorus) and B’s on the Table, during which guest 21 Savage sounds as if he’s bored out of his mind.