Beyond Skin

Them: Here's 1001 Albums you should listen to before you die. Me: (praying for death so I don't have to listen to another electronic British album)

Shits ass 3/10

Wank

Not for me

Did not listen. Album cover turned me off immediately! 0⭐

Boring. Not influential. Lyrics have a superiority complex.

Did not like it 25 years ago and one cannot argue it is not well made, but it still has that typical muzak feeling.

Zzzzzzzz

Virkelig prætentiøst og en træls blanding af mange genrer...

As Homer Simpson would say “boring”

If it's not being cringe world music, it's just generic late 90's pop. This is lame, do better.

What was that ?

Brutal.

Definitely not my preferred style of music at all.

Utter crap. How is this shite getting thru my filters?

Can't say I enjoyed this

Broken Skin - 4.5/5 Honestly a great groove. Honestly did not think this style of music I'd fuck with so much. Letting Go - 4/5 THE HARMONY. A bit more of a reserved song compared to the previous but still a chill vibe. Sampling a bit strange. Homelands - 2.5/5 Supermajority of the song is in Hindi, last minute is Portuguese. A bit of a strange start, but towards the halfway mark it really picks up and hits a stride. Pilgrim - 1/5 I don't enjoy the strings throughout this song or the rapping. Very generic compared to the rest of the album so far. The entire song is super repetitive. I don't care that life is like a puzzle not pieced yet. Tides - 3/5 PIANO! Nadia - 1/5 Sounds like the intro to the powerpuff girls. Entirely in Hindi. I did not enjoy the singing. Immigrant - 2.5/5 Kinda gives Disney princess music vibes lmfao. Very pleasant. Male singer detracts in the latter half, but the lead singer did an absolutely great and beautiful performance. Serpents - 0/5 This song is simply not good. It is repetitive and the instrumentation is bad. Entirely in Hindi. I thought Nadia was bad, this is worse. Anthem Without Nation - 1/5 Does not go anywhere. Sounds like its going to be promising and build to something but does not and stays relatively somber throughout. Nostalgia - 3/5 A rebound after these last few songs. I swear its not because its sung in English (the singing is just okay anyways)-- it actually has a vibe and a groove. Still probably wouldn't listen to it outside of this experience. The Conference - 0/5 oh boy. just skip it. honestly bordering on so bad its good, but still overwhelming bad. Beyond Skin - 1/5 Doesn't become a song until 90 seconds in, but what follows isn't worth the wait. Oppenheimer referenced. Overall Thoughts: Lots of Hindi which takes a lot to get used to to be honest (I am not even sure I ever did). Honestly fell off so hard after the first few songs. I will admit I am almost certainly not the target audience for the vast majority of these songs, and the language gap almost certainly contributed to that, but that didn't stop the first few songs from slapping. Feels like a majority of the songs try to be "artsy" over being an enjoyable experience; no consistency or musical through-line. Would almost certainly not have listened to it without this site, and I don't entirely think that's a positive this time around.

Broken Skin - 4.5/5 persona ahh soundtrack song Letting Go - 4.6/5 holy Homelands - 2.2/5 ??? some of the greatest and worst parts of the album Pilgrim - 0.7/5 absolutely nothing good about this track Tides - 2.5/5 bro found 3 samples and smashed them together, good for a lofi sound i guess. completely neutral Nadia - 0/5 extremely annoying, i was getting angry listening to this Immigrant - 1.4/5 disney's aladdin knockoff soundtrack song Serpents - 0 I'm going to go insane if I have to keep listening to this shit album Anthem Without Nation - 0.8/5 aimless, meaningless, singing is on a significantly different time signature then the background ambience Nostalgia - 3.4/5 - HOLY SHIT!!! MUSIC!!! why did they cut the strings though? why so repetitive still? The Conference - 0.4 ???????? it was kinda funny ig Beyond Skin - 0.3/5 there is literally not music for half of it, but instead Oppenheimer I've gone through every stage of grief listening to this. Get this toddler away from his DAW. I have heard real toddlers beating on drums completely randomly that can classify more as music then most of this garbage. 2.8/5 as an existentialism art piece, 1.2/5 as an album.

Nothing of particular interest musically, main intention seems to be commenting on Indian politics

Now I am become elevator music, the destroyer of interesting concept, lush hindi/qawwali interpolations, coffee-table trip-hop, and dated drum'n'bass patterns. Love the "Indian" vocals and orchestrations. Hate most of the English vocal parts. 1/5 for the purposes of this list, translating to a 6/10 grade for more general purposes (5+1). Number of albums left to review: 446 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 257 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 132 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 168 (including this one)

What? How’d this get here?

"Tides" was a nice, chill tune. The rest of it, however, was a rambling mess of musical styles, and cultures, that never should have been combined. I'm not sure how this made it onto this list.

Hmm, I have no recollection of this existence at all. Someone mentioned the Mercury Prize and that's a good shout. I do remember the Talvin Singh one though, this, nothing. Most of this screams Morcheeba to me though, coffee shop grooves but with some eastern rhythms and overtones. Also overproduced in such a way as to turn you right off. I'd much rather listen to the real deal. There was loads of it about around this time. Offensively inoffensive. Blame Moby if you want. The rap one with some dude trying to do Q-Tip badly was hard to sit through. Oh god, Immigrant was painful. What the fuck is this. Utter schlock. The Conference is the one track worth listening to, and it jumps out, so incongruous is it to everything else here. The longer this goes on, the harder it is to avoid reaching the inevitable conclusion that it is fucking terrible. Or at least terrible in places, boring in others.

No thank you. At all. Meh and argh.

the cover art is me when i go waaaaaah weeeeee

It was okay not good tho. This shit was PlayStation 1 background music which honestly would’ve been much cooler. It was music that sounded like it was trying hard to be fine art. 1.75

Säkert skickligt, men ack så tråkigt - musik att somna till

Brutal.

this is pretty terrible, boring Casio keyboard drum'n'bass with rote Indian thematic touches and a dash of pretentious samples thrown in for bad measure. down with the worst of pseudo-trendy UK music ca. 2000, dull dull dull

Heavy subject matter about nuclear war made fairly bland from that mid-late 90's trip hop production and breathy vocals. Once you've heard the first track, you've heard all the tracks. The model on the front of the album probably wanted the connotation of screaming - instead after listening to this it just looks like someone yawning. Best Tracks: Broken Skin; Pilgrim; Tides

Struggled to find any joy with this one.

Shit was wack

What?

06/02/2022 PLEASE make it stop.

no

nope

Couldn't make myself care about this album.

Nah

Nee, dat was 't dan niet voor mij.

Culerísimo.

Don't like it. Bailed halfway through as I heard nothing redeeming with it.

Ужасающие восточные мотивы. Отборное дерьмицо для извращенцев.

MEEH

neeeeope

Ethnic Music that I don't relate to.

fy fan vilken tråkig skit