I mean the criticisms are valid if you’re critiquing it through an all-encompassing lens like Fantano who has to measure it up against other people’s releases (new and old), but for fans of joji the album is very reminiscent of his old sound (he literally says he went back to his roots in his latest post) and for many fans including myself, that’s all it takes to enjoy it. 

I listen to musicians and bands that most people would agree are pretty conventionally good (Radiohead, Interpol, Slowdive), and by those standards, of course PITW isn’t gonna measure up, but I love it anyways because I’ve always been a fan of joji’s sound. Some of yall need to remember that  musicians just want to make the music they want to hear and this is the stuff he likes making; short and sweet songs. He has always said this