Matthew Beckett Reviews

For my second album review I will be talking about the album What You See Is What You Get by Luke Combs released November 2019, the follow up to his platinum selling debut album This One's For You. Although this album hasn't performed incredibly in the UK, peaking at 27 giving Luke his first top 40 album, it went to number one in the US and Australia. The album has spent 9 weeks in the top 20 in both the US and Australia, spawning 2 top 40 singles in the US. Now country music is my favourite genre of music, I just love everything about it and Luke combs is one of my favourites within the genre. I discovered him and several other amazing singers at around the same time, all becoming some of my favourite artists over all genres. The others in case you are interested are Carly Pearce, Kane Brown, Midland and Mitchell Tenpenny. When an album is amazing, especially a debut, I'm always left wondering how the artist will follow it up. This is exactly the situation with Luke...

This is my first album review blog and my wife has chosen Stormzy's 2nd album Heavy Is The Head for me. A big of information about the album before I review it. This is Stormzy's highly anticipated follow up to his number 1 platinum selling 2017 debut Gang Signs and Prayers. It was released 13th December last year, it is already gold certified for sales and closed last year as the 58th best selling album after 2 weeks! So far the album has spawned 5 top 10 singles with a 6th hitting the top 40, of these 2 have now gone number 1. Now if you've read my previous blog post you'll know I love Stormzy and if you haven't then I love Stormzy, ever since I first heard Know Me From I've been a fan and I am so glad he has become popular, admittedly I never thought he'd be as popular as he has been, especially given that a lot of grime artist that I also love haven't had the same success consistently. I'm talking Wiley, Skepta, JME, Lady Leshurr, Bugzy Malone e...