JPEGMAFIA – All My Heroes Are Cornballs (2xLP)

All My Heroes Are Cornballs by JPEGMAFIA is a daring and genre-blurring album that pushes the boundaries of hip-hop. JPEGMAFIA skillfully blends glitchy textures, soulful melodies, and aggressive noise, resulting in a sound that is as unpredictable as it is engaging. The album thrives on contrast—between softness and abrasion, irony and sincerity—and this tension is where much of its power lies. Each track feels like an experiment in controlled chaos, and yet the entire album holds together as a fully realized artistic statement.

Lyrically and thematically, JPEGMAFIA delves into personal insecurities, cultural contradictions, and internet-fueled absurdity. His off-kilter production style and distinctive delivery offer moments of vulnerability beneath the digital detritus. The record doesn't follow trends—it deconstructs them, showing a deep understanding of both hip-hop history and online culture. All My Heroes Are Cornballs is a complex, confrontational, and oddly beautiful experience that affirms JPEGMAFIA’s place as one of the most original voices in modern music.

Reviews

"The experimental rapper remains an impish writer and an athletic vocalist on his latest album, one that lays bare the sprawling collage in his fiery, fascinating brain." – Pitchfork

"Veteran was a beautifully disturbing album, and All My Heroes Are Cornballs is an even better hodgepodge of empowered tumult." – Highsnobiety

"It’s easy to become giddy over JPEGMAFIA’s mastery with the building blocks of tension and release." – Sputnikmusic

"On All My Heroes Are Cornballs, experimental rapper and producer JPEGMAFIA broadens his visceral online image and sounds into a more vulnerable, humanizing, and melodic project." – PopMatters

"Ultimately, the album is challenging and uncompromising as it makeshifts a rallying cry for the disenfranchised Millennial Redditor; a manifesto for the misunderstood." – HipHopDX