https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes/
Drake's new project is a mixtape of glossy "demos" from the recent past. ... Dark Lane Demo Tapes, the 14-track mixtape Drake has released ahead of a proper studio album he says is coming

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/drakes-dark-lane-demo-tapes-993763/
The song encourages reflection, not release. In this sense, "Toosie Slide" provides a kind of emotional template for much of Drake's new mixtape Dark Lane Demo Tapes. The project, a grab bag

https://www.nme.com/reviews/drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes-review-2657961
Drake's taken a lot of stick in the past for genre-jacking (Wiley famously called him a "culture vulture"), but 'Dark Lane Demo Tapes' sounds freshest when he's out of his comfort zone

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/05/drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes-review-cool-complacency/611107/
Dark Lane Demo Tapes by contrast trends sullen, spare, and rude. The opening beat, on "Deep Pockets," sounds like something from an Earl Sweatshirt album, which is to say it sounds like a soul

https://www.metacritic.com/music/dark-lane-demo-tapes-mixtape/drake
User Score. 4.9. Mixed or average reviews based on 159 Ratings. Summary: The collection of demos, singles and unreleased tracks from the Canadian rapper features guest appearance from Chris Brown, Fivio Foreign, Future, Giveon, Playboi Carti, Sosa Geek, and Young Thug. Buy Now.

https://djbooth.net/features/2020-05-01-drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes-album-review-new-music
On 'Dark Lane Demo Tapes,' Drake delivers a fan service release during quarantine, allowing him to clear out his vault of throwaways, loosies, and leaks. ... In usual 1-Listen album review

https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes-review.html
Discernment is exhausting, but smoke is free. Drake is the artist of this moment because we're all waging the same unwinnable war for unilateral respect his songs do. We all feel hated and

https://themusicalhype.com/drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes-album-review/
On his first project of 2020, Drake releases yet another mixtape, Dark Lane Demo Tapes, which ends up having its share of moments. Cutting straight to the chase, Drake hasn't released a proper studio album since dropping his 2018 double album, Scorpion.. Even so, the rapper/singer has remained firmly in the spotlight, rereleasing a mixtape from 2009 (So Far Gone) in 2019, as well dropping a

https://musicmattersmedia.com/2020/06/20/drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes-mixtape-review/
Photo Credit: Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images Once again the herald angels are singing, for Aubrey Drake Graham has graced our terrestrial planet with another sprawling collection of emotional music. Enter Dark Lane Demo Tapes, a deceptively-named mixtape full of demos that aren't really demos. New Drake and old Drake's past several iterations all have glaring commonalities:

https://thestereovision.com/content/darklanedemotapes
The Summer of the 6 God: 'Dark Lane Demo Tapes' Mixtape Review. May 05, 2020 by Spencer Lobdell in Read. By Spencer Lobdell. ... Drake released Dark Lane Demo Tapes on May 1st, 2020 through OVO Records. The mixtape contains 14 songs with features from Playboi Carti, Young Thug, Future, Chris Brown and others.

https://ratingsgamemusic.com/2020/05/01/drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes-album-review/
3. LOSSES. "Losses" is one of the many songs on Dark Lane Demo Tapes that features a version of Drake that is vulnerable. What I enjoy about this particular song is that it feels like the 33-year old rapper delivers his bars a bit more aggressively, a little more exact, and a lot more carefree on it. Every single Drake album has a song like

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/arts/music/drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes-review.html
Drake's "Dark Lane Demo Tapes" is a largely effective odds-and-ends collection but not an actual new album. (He said we can expect that this summer.) Jonathan Short/Invision, via Associated

https://voxatl.org/review-drakes-dark-lane-demo-tapes-are-solid-but-the-same/
Review: Drake's 'Dark Lane Demo Tapes' Are Solid, But the Same. Nothing excites the hip hop world more than when chart-topping artist Drake releases music. This reigned true on May 1 as the king of rap right now released his mixtape titled "Dark Lane Demo Tapes" on all streaming platforms. Drake dropped the tracklist and cover art for

https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/263602-drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes-review-news
Dark Lane Demo Tapes seemingly plots on a reverse effect; delivering mediocrity to hold fans over while safely locking away the gems for his next album. Pockets of growth are scattered throughout

https://www.complex.com/music/drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes-review
On Dark Lane Demo Tapes, Drake acts more like a tourist than host. He moves from drill to R&B to backpack rap in a moment's notice, less intent on finding a new style than letting us know that he

https://beatsperminute.com/album-review-drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes/
Ostensibly a quarantine gift for fans, it's as transparent a bid for passive dominance as any in Drake's recent career. The vast majority of Dark Lane could play in a suburban Baskin Robbins without offending a single soccer mom. Honestly, they'd be unlikely to even notice it was playing. The few songs that would have moms asking to speak

https://uproxx.com/music/drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes-review/
Drake's Laser-Focused 'Dark Lane Demo Tapes' Probably Should Have Been An Album. Aaron Williams Hip-Hop Editor Twitter. May 5, 2020. For a decade, as fans debated whether or not Drake truly

https://www.stereogum.com/2083385/drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes-review/columns/status-aint-hood/
The brand-new Dark Lane Demo Tapes is an album-length collection of Drake songs. It includes a #1 single, and it will presumably dominate the album charts for at least a couple of months.

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/mixtape/drake/dark-lane-demo-tapes/
Dark Lane Demo Tapes, a Mixtape by Drake. Released 1 May 2020 on OVO. Genres: Pop Rap, Trap. Featured peformers: Drake (writer, vocals), Chris Athens (mastering engineer). ... Drake Discography Review. Probably the first Drake project I listened to without adding a song to a playlist,. Not a single song on here is worth listening to again, and

https://cultmtl.com/2020/05/review-drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes/
Drake, Dark Lane Demo Tapes (Republic) With the promise of his sixth official studio album coming this summer, Drake offers a new "mixtape" while we wait. Dark Lane Demo Tapes is a compilation of songs that leaked online prematurely throughout the year. If an album is an in-season game, this could be likened to exhibition.

https://armonsadler13.medium.com/drake-dark-lane-demo-tapes-review-6cf86ebe3654
Remember you asked for this. *stretches* It was refreshing to see Drake deviate from his typical, long-album format. Dark Lane Demo Tapes is the most concise solo project of his catalog since 2013's Nothing Was The Same; his personal favorite as told to Elliott Wilson and Brian "B. Dot" Miller during their Tidal Rap Radar interview on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Lane_Demo_Tapes
Dark Lane Demo Tapes is the sixth mixtape by Canadian rapper Drake.The mixtape is a compilation of songs that were released on SoundCloud or leaked on the internet, as well as new songs, and is considered a "warm-up" to Drake's sixth studio album Certified Lover Boy (2021). It was released on May 1, 2020, by OVO Sound and Republic Records.Production was handled by Drake's longtime collaborator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-8BK4XJmzg
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWggTb45brMDrake drops another 'care package' that could've used more care.More rap reviews: https://www.youtube.com/