Giant Steps

Reminding me of Death Cab For Cutie

Not sure what this had to do with John Coltrane or To Kill a Mockingbird

What was going on with the mixing or mastering or something on this album. The volume level was all over from one track to the next. Overall I guess there was a reason I'd never heard of these guys as it was way to long with not much of interest

Strong and sophisticated, but also warm and fun, with considerably more depth than the polished pop facade would suggest on a first or cursory listen. One didn't quite track them in real time, not with the attention they seem to deserve anyway. The mix of shoe-gazing, Britpop, and something like straight-up (or rave-adjacent) indie rock and variations on genre (reggae, eg) works effectively and holds up quite well, easily (almost effortlessly transcending pure '90s cliches, especially bombast). There are swirling, totally hummable melodies (e.g., "Wish I Was Skinny") that add sweetness but ample distortion and spiky riffs to challenge a listenter and suggest their ambition (as do the mini-suites). The understated brass and winds (on "Best Lose the Fear") are grace notes. The sequence of "Leaves and Sand" > "Buttefly McQueen" > "Rodney King" is particularly strong. "Barney and Me" and "Lazarus" are among the other plus-plus cuts – there is more than enough quality to justify the (borderline too long) quantity here (speaking of '90s cliches). They bring to mind the Pernice Brothers, among other current indie bands. Will need to remind oneself to listen to more of them in the future (which is before one will die, assuming one has the timings worked out).

Grew on me, I ended up liking this a lot. Jazzy shoegaze, beautiful chaos at times. I get the Beatles comparisons. Reminiscent of Blur for me too at times

Some really nice moments happening here! Hovers between a 3 and a 4 for me

Got a little psychedelic at the end there but overall this is a 5 🤌🏻 a nice surprise!

Never heard this before, I enjoyed it!

Not bad.

I thought this was solid. This album has some interesting production choices, some that work and some that don’t. I just wish it wasn’t an hour long

I don’t know man. It’s not bad.

If Boo Radley were real, he would approve

Love that psychedelic indie vide. I wish I've made some kind of this music one day.

Some of this I love, some of it I absolutely hate. Sometimes one song has bits I love and bits I hate... that makes it hard to rate.

The writing wasn’t very strong but they had some fun ideas

# Album Name: Giant Steps # Artist: The boo Radleys # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: more like the poo radleys. Such generic rock pop. # Top Tunes: # Would I listen to it again?

Музыка: 7/10 Разнообразие: 7/10 Тематика и вайб: 7/10 Цепляемость (отдельные песни зашли): 6/10 Реиграбельность (можно ли рандомно врубить на фон): 8/10 Итог: 7.0

5/10 So this is a good 20mins too long. There is no way they couldn't have found 5 tracks to drop. Of what there is, it is fine, mostly jangly not-as-good-as-they-think-they-are guitar pop. A smidge before my time, but in the lullbefore the Britpop storm this probably sounded better.

TERRIBLE band name. Great album. Somehow, as much as I love shoegaze and Britpop, I’ve barely even heard of these guys before, and never heard a note of their music. This goes in so many different directions….. yes there are shoegazey elements but it feels like the idea was to write a ton of great songs and let the genre sort itself out. I love it. FOUR STARS

Pretty generic 90s college rock. Not especially memorable but not horrible. 2.5/5 #198

I've loved this album for a long time. It's sweet and melodic with the shoegaze and psych elements I adore. Arrangements are complex and varied, yet cohesive.

Wacky. Marginally more palatable than everything else we've had this week, but that's not saying much he said wearily.

I like this funky Brit-pop outfit.

You know what, this bangs. And it's doesn't even have wake up boo on it.

Another shoite album. These albums are so dull

2 - not the best

Not a fan of 'wake up boo', so didn't expect much from this. Sounded alright though, early 90s inoffensive indie pop, what's not to like. Nothing overly memorable, but ok for an hour.

All over the place with a few decent moments, but mostly just Barney pop. Unique but not influential since I've never heard another album like it. Far better and more influential albums in 1993 that were not picked. Primus' Pork Soda is one example

Some hits some misses

Every song has an amazingly experimental start, a very delicate & exquisite finish, and a very, very mediocre middle.

This album was fine for a listen but it didn’t get me too excited. Solid three out of 5.

Non mi dispiace il sound grunge anni 90, ma un po’ troppo tristini per i miei gusti

No toxic, non engaging.

This was weirdly fun and up my alley.

I really liked this. Fascinating mix of genres, moods, styles, instruments, techniques... they were all over the place, and while I can see how that might get old for some people it just happened to work for me. Favorite tracks: Wish I Was Skinny, Rodney King (Song for Lenny Bruce), and Lazarus. 7/10, 4 stars

Definitely interesting and I got into it! It felt a bit bloated, but meh I liked it! :)

Whiny vocals, wimpy lyrics, and irritating non-triumphant guitar noises. I can see how this may have influenced the oncoming wave of indie rock (I especially hear death cab in the vocals), but I doubt I’ll listen to this in full again.

Oh my God. Just because you can put 90 minutes on a cd doesn't mean you should. If this was edited down to 10-12 songs I think this would have been really tight and they could have gotten some decent hits from what is here. But there is another editing and everything just feels spread too thin.

Love the representation for everyone out there struggling with body image

Actually quite enjoyable if a bit on the long side. I hear some elements of later bands (Radiohead, MBV) 4/5

Day 63 First listen- This album was a wonderful experience. I was initially skeptical because the album is over an hour long but I enjoyed almost all of the tracks. Gorgeous melodies and I LOVEED the psychedelic moments throughout the album. (4/5)

Noisy, but not necessarily good. Not as bad as Oasis, but close.

I dig the time period and the general sound but it didn’t really grab me.

This is I guess what we used to call "college rock", of a particularly anglophonic jangle pop variety... frankly there's not much rock to be had. It's an ambitious collection, with a very British traditional sensibility, they seem to come from the Kinks school, but with a gentle and feminine cast, lots of "sha-la-la"s and "bap-bap-ba"s, and they aspire to a kind of regal Sgt. Pepper / White Album psychedelia, with the English horns and clarinets and phase-drenched passages, but they're also unafraid to make some really confrontational noises with guitar feedback, and there I hear some real pre-figuration of Radiohead in various places. They also touch on those obligatory faux-dub and faux-rave sounds that were making the rounds at the time - down that road lie the Mondays, and further on you have your Inspirals, Soup Dragons, EMF. It all kind of evokes that general era to me. It's not my thing really but I can't say it's unpleasant or poorly constructed, it's quite a nice record.

This is what it sounds like to listen to college student run radio. Some good, some bad. Mostly meh. 3/5

4.1 I've given it a couple of listens and I think I'll need quite a few more but it's time to move on. I only knew these from Wake up Boo, so I always thought they were a one hit wonder that made a very commercialised Brit pop song and nothing else. Wow was I wrong. This album has a bit of everything. Shoegaze, psychadelica, alternative rock etc. the genre often changes but it *works*, something that I lament often on here for not doing so.

More like a strong 2.5

Ok

★½

Yooooo! With a name like The Boo Radleys I would’ve never expected such dope music behind the name. This album rules. Brit-rock, indie, alt-rock, dream pop with touches of shoegaze. The Boo Radleys fukin rule!

Good album, enjoyed this

Kind of exchangable. Did not catch me,

too many genre switches, too long, otherwise not bad

not the worst but very forgettable

Decent, reminiscent of Radiohead.

Better than I expected. As I previously only knew Wake Up Boo, I thought they'd be terribly cheery and bouncy, but they can turn up the distortion when they want to. I especially liked the Rodney King song. The negatives: I'm not mad on the singing; it's a bit long; the more poppy stuff isn't my particular brand of pop; and the more trippy psychedelic parts lost energy. But I loved all the swirly, heavier bits and the dub. There weren't enough of them: I got impatient when the energy dropped. They probably deserve 3 and a half.

crazy underrated actually

Too long and I am not a britpop fan

2.5 ?

eh

Epic

Entirely unremarkable. Fuck britpop, fuck shoegaze & fuck indie. 1.65

I like the band name but it didn't take long for me to realize I wasn't going to like this album. I feel like they're trying hard to make something beautiful but it just didn't land.

Allez, on continue le périple à travers ce pavé de 1001 albums, et aujourd'hui, on s'attaque à un monument de la pop anglaise de 1993, un disque qui, à l'époque, a mis tout le monde d'accord : "Giant Steps" des Boo Radleys. Un album que le NME et Select ont élu "album de l'année". Pour comprendre "Giant Steps", il faut se replacer dans le contexte. Début des années 90, la scène indépendante britannique est encore largement dominée par ce que la presse a baptisé, avec un certain mépris, le "shoegazing". Vous savez, ces groupes de jeunes gens à franges qui semblaient passer leurs concerts à contempler leurs pédales d'effets, noyant des mélodies pop parfaites sous des tonnes de guitares brumeuses et réverbérées. Ride, Slowdive, Chapterhouse... Et la liste est longue. Les Boo Radleys, originaires de Liverpool, faisaient partie de cette mouvance et leurs premiers efforts, bien que prometteurs, les plaçaient fermement dans cette catégorie un peu morose. La blague qui tournait dans les rédactions des canards musicaux de l'époque, c'était de les fusionner en un seul nom, "Slowdriveride", pour se moquer de l'uniformité de la scène. Et puis, en 1993, "Giant Steps" et le titre n'est pas anodin car cet album est un pas de géant. Les Boo Radleys ont décidé de faire sauter la baraque, ils ont pris leur son shoegaze, l'ont passé à la moulinette et en ont ressorti un disque mutant, une créature de Frankenstein pop absolument fascinante et complètement démesurée. Le mot qui revient dans le bouquin pour le décrire est "kaléidoscopique", et putain, c'est le mot juste. On passe d'une pop sixties aux harmonies vocales dignes des Beach Boys à des murs de guitares bruitistes, on fait un détour par le dub, le reggae, on flirte avec des cuivres mariachis pour finir sur du rock psychédélique. C'est un bordel monstre, une orgie sonore, un feu d'artifice permanent. Et c'est là que le disque est à la fois génial et épuisant. Le génie, il est total sur certains morceaux. "Lazarus", par exemple, ce titre est un monolithe. Un chef-d'oeuvre absolu qui commence comme une ballade mélancolique avant d'exploser en une bacchanale de cuivres et de guitares noisy. C'est le genre de morceau qui justifie à lui seul la présence d'un album dans cette foutue liste. "I Hang Suspended", "Wish I Was Skinny" ou "Barney (...and Me)" sont d'autres exemples de la capacité du songwriter Martin Carr à écrire des chansons pop parfaites, accrocheuses, intelligentes, qui vous donnent la pêche pour la journée. Il y a une ambition folle dans ce disque, une volonté de tout essayer, de repousser toutes les limites du format pop. On sent les mecs en studio, excités comme des puces, se dire "Et si on rajoutait un peu de dub ici ? Et là, un solo de trompette ? Allez, soyons fous !". Cet enthousiasme est communicatif et pendant une bonne quarantaine de minutes, on est emporté par ce tourbillon créatif. Mais voilà, le problème, c'est que le disque dure plus d'une heure et compte 17 titres. Et c'est là tout le problème car tu as beau avoir un appétit d'ogre, au bout du quinzième plat, même si c'est du homard, tu commences à caler. La deuxième moitié de l'album, malgré quelques fulgurances, souffre de cette longueur. Les expérimentations semblent moins inspirées, les chansons plus convenues, et la fatigue s'installe. On se dit qu'avec un bon coup de ciseaux, en virant cinq ou six titres, on tenait là un des plus grands albums de la décennie. En l'état, on a un très, très bon album, mais un album qui s'essouffle sur la durée. C'est un disque pour les initiés, un disque qui demande un effort. Il faut être dans le bon état d'esprit pour s'enfiler "Giant Steps" d'une traite. Contrairement à un "Loveless" de My Bloody Valentine qui, malgré sa densité, reste concis et va droit au but, "Giant Steps" prend des chemins de traverse, s'égare, revient, repart... C'est un disque généreux, peut-être trop. C'est un album monumental de part son ambition qui a osé dynamiter les codes de l'indie pop de l'époque et des morceaux comme "Lazarus" resteront à jamais gravés dans le marbre. Mais son principal défaut est aussi sa plus grande qualité : sa folle générosité. Il a voulu trop en donner, et à force, il m'a un peu perdu en route. Un album à écouter, absolument. À aimer en entier ? C'est une autre paire de manches. Au final, une note de 3/5 qui n'est pas une sanction, mais un constat.

The only thing I had heard from these before was the song Wake Up, Boo. I expected this to be a load more of the same, summery 90s guitar-pop, but it was very different and I kinda dig it.

The Boo Radleys, while forming in 1988, never found any comercial success in the UK or US until this album. Wake Up Boo! topped the charts peaking at #9 solidifying them as a one hit wonder (if that,) before their eventual split in 1999. Having to contend with bands like Pulp, Blur, James, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Crowded House and Oasis, they never found their footing amid the Britpop or shoegaze scenes they were trying to wedge themselves into in the UK or the US. Giant Steps was awarded 9/10 by the UK music magazine NME, which stated, "It's an intentional masterpiece, a throw-everything-at-the-wall bric-a-brac of sounds, colours and stolen ideas. That The Boo Radleys (of all people!) have decided to accept their own challenge and create a record as diverse and boundary-bending as this is, at first glance, staggering. Isn't this the job of the U2s and the leisured idols of rock, unable to do anything without the tacit approval of history? Fortunately not. The Boo Radleys are sifting through time (the mid-'60s, mostly) and conjuring up something that's as cut-up and ambitious as anything you'd care to mention". Reviewing the album's re-release in 2008, Sic Magazine wrote, "For 64 minutes they were the greatest band on the planet." As time has gone on, this forgettable album by a flash in the pan band does not stand the test of time. If you are a fan of Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., Lush, or Slowdive, then this album may be for you. Or you could just listen to any of the albums from those stalwart bands instead. With its time capsule sound and its dated song titles such as Rodney King - Song For Lenny Bruce The Boo Radleys sound like so many other bands and groups of the time who did it better and are still putting out great music today.

The Boo Radleys’ Giant Steps is an ambitious but uneven blend of shoegaze noise and Britpop melody, stretched across 17 tracks and 64 minutes that often feel overlong. At its best, the band’s melodic instincts shine—“I Hang Suspended” opens with jangly guitars and driving drums, “Wish I Was Skinny” delivers tender, Death Cab–like vocals, and “Thinking of Ways” channels Beatles-esque harmonies and orchestration. “Barney (...and Me)” balances sunny strumming with bursts of feedback, while “If You Want It, Take It” highlights tasteful guitar work despite overly delicate vocals. But the sequencing falters, with experimental detours like “Upon 9th and Fairchild” breaking early momentum and the back half bogged down by indulgence. The result is a bold statement that, trimmed of excess, might have stood as a Britpop classic—flawed but often rewarding in its best moments.

Loved this

3 Stars (8/15)

I've heard of them but never listened to them. I mean I don't regret listening to this album. It's forgettable and not my thing.

I wasn’t impressed. The albums I don’t like I understand there are genres out there I don’t love but understand those albums are extraordinary, don’t know how this album made the list.

3.6 - I cant quite remember listening to this, but I think it was pretty good, need to relisten

When I discovered MBV and had a shoegaze epiphany Boo Radleys were on the list of bands that I tried to dabble a bit into, but that couldn't quite recreate the beauty of Loveless for me. Pleasantly surprised then that I liked this album. Obviously nothing like a Loveless - not even that shoegazey all things considered - but a decent crop of cool songs. Fave Tracks: I Hang Suspended, Butterfly McQueen, Barney (...And Me), Lazarus 3.9/5

Electric and inventive, diverse and awesome

Skills

Vel, ganske velprodusert og en fin lytting. Shoegaze er ikke helt hva jeg elsker, men synes det fortjener en firer alt i alt.

This album is pretty boring. It flirts with interesting chord progressions and melodies and then either gets predictable or too disjointed to be enjoyable. First song was the best.

The Boo Radleys got their name from Harper Lee's classic novel and this record's title from John Coltrane's essential 1960 album, odd works of art to proclaim for a pop act such as this. But beyond the cryptic allusions lies a solid enough release, a collection of tracks that teeters between The La's and My Bloody Valentine, The Stone Roses and The Pixies, sweet acoustics and distorted violence. Lyrically too, it swings from the transparent to the obscure: 'Wishin' I had money / Wishin' for the time to spend it all'; 'I've got nothing against not being proud / to me it's alright.' At sixty-four mins tho, the fusion of pop and experiment sprawls lamely, leaving you w/ four or five tracks that boast a legitimate raison d'être, heralded by 'Lazarus.'

I had never heard of this band, so I’m glad to have been introduced through this project. The lyrics and vocal delivery are vey of their time, but not unpleasant by any stretch. Being shoegaze, the fuzzy guitar is a focus of many of the tracks and it doesn’t disappoint. The songwriting variety avoids the pitfall of many similar efforts, but the length of the record does the same thing: overstays its welcome. There is a very strong record to be found with some liberal edits, but it gets slightly diluted by the breadth of ideas.

Not sure why this album is on here. Not bad, but very forgettable. Kind of band you’d see at a college party in the late 90s.

Boo, it wasn't radley. Far from. I am perplexed what everyone else is hearing in this. All I hear is genre smashing for the sake of genre smashing and none of it feels like it works. It just makes me want to go seek out the masters of the individual genres these guys were desperately trying to ape.

This sounds very much of it's time. It's like shoegaze Elliott Smith. An hour of distorted guitars...awesome. I think I'm starting to hate 90s music too. This album goes on forever. This is not the most awful album I've ever heard, maybe I don't hate shoegaze as much as Cocteau Twins would have me believe. Run My Way Runway is just noise. I just want this to be over. This list has too many 90s Britpop acts. British bands love ska. There's nothing like some annoying noises at the end of a song to improve an album. This isn't terrible, but it sounds like 100 other albums that came out in the mid 90s. Oasis, Pulp, Blur...a bunch of bands that came out around that time or immediately after just sound the same and so much of it is just "meh". British bands love to weigh in on American politics. This album sounds like 1993. In the 90s, America gave us grunge and gangsta rap...great Britain gave us Britpop and it apparently won based on the albums on this list. Ridiculous. It doesn't help that this album is over an hour long. It just keeps spiraling down. This is too much music for an album for anyone except the really great artists. You don't have 17 good ideas for an album. I bet Ludwig Goransson listened to Spun Around before he started writing the music for the Mandalorian. Some backwards talking, sweet. The album swings between generic 90s British pop-rock and terrible 90s British pop-rock. This is one of the least interesting albums on the list so far. God, this album drags. Run My Way Runway is just a jumble of stupid sounds and stupid lyrics. The repetitiveness of The White Noise Revisited is grating.

Thinking of Ways sounds like a late-60s Beach Boys/Brian Wilson (may he rest in peace) composition. Comparable to some of the unreleased Smile material, or maybe a few tracks off Surf's Up or Sunflower, especially with the vocal harmonies and otherworldly feel. Quite a few songs on this record are focused on the acoustic guitar, and end up being some of the highlights as a result. Wish I Was Skinny is (unusually for a post-punk band) almost danceable with its lighthearted pop-guitar feel. The sound apocalypse at the end of the song is also worth a shoutout – at least it's better than a gradual fade-out. Lazarus is another very strong track. The guitar-synth interplay is fun. Reminds me a bit of Bowie, who coincidentally released a track called Lazarus 23 years later. Barney (...and Me) is, in my mind, a reprise of Wish I Was Skinny, and it's a welcome break from some of the other tracks. So, why not 5 stars? Well, it's these "other tracks" that I have a problem with. Beginning with the opener (I Hang Suspended), there are some extremely harsh noise-tracks dotted throughout the record that bring us back to the post-punk reality of this list and of the time period. Fortunately there aren't many of them, but enough that you could easily remove songs like Upon 9th And Fairchild, Butterfly McQueen, and Take the Time Around (among others) to reduce this album to a reasonable length and get rid of the very obvious filler. The singing is also not great, and though the producers try to obscure this by putting the vocals through some weird quality-lowering filters, this only highlights the issue. Ah, well. There's enough good material on Giant Steps to get by. 3/5 Key tracks: Wish I Was Skinny, Thinking of Ways, Barney (...and Me), Lazarus

The variety on this album is what makes this album really intriguing. It’s got the poppy indie rock sound, with an accompaniment of some scuzzy shoegaze flavour. The opening on Upon 9th and Fairchild was awesome, screeching guitars with a smooth bassline and then they randomly toss in an almost reggae like guitar riff and then it takes yet another turn with a jangly country like vibe all while the vocals and bassline hold steady. It’s by far my favourite track and is one I’ve added to my go to playlists because it’s just so interesting. There are several other captivating tunes on this release. It does run a little long but overall I really enjoyed this. Didn’t love it quite enough for a 4 but a strong 3.5 stars

Never listened to the Boo Radleys before and I can’t say I have been missing out all this time. This has some good aspects to it and they sound reasonably talented. I also like some of the distortion they used throughout and this is somewhat similar to other stuff I like. The problem with this is that basically every song devolves into an instrumental ending full of the same notes over and over again. This happens right from the jump with I Hang Suspended and is a running theme throughout the album. It’s almost like they had no clue how to finish songs. For that reason alone, this gets a major downgrade for me.

not for me.

I saw a lot of mention of brit pop in the reviews, so I went into this kind of skeptical. It was much better than expected.

Why is this on the list?

Lots of noise with some good hooks.

Didn’t have to listen to this before I died, you sit on a throne of lies

This is a first listen of this album and group for me. I have to say I like it very much on many levels. It's Dylan at one moment, Beatles the next and then psychedelic/acid rock interjections. The messages are also still very timely despite having been cut in 1993. And, hey, I just wanted to sing along with it. Happy but poignant. Dire, but optimistic.

Boring, too long, dnf

This album was nowhere near good enough to justify the length. They just kept making songs, not a phan of that decision. 2/5

This shit was silly. At the beginning it feylt like I was listening to an early nine inch nails, and at the end, it felt like it was an early American Football. I liked the general vibe, favorite track was wish I was skinny.

Really cool industrial-ish opener, then the rest was like baby's first time playing with the "wheeeooooo-WAAAAAAAAAHNNNNNN" knobs. Wish it was a bit shorter also, some songs dragged on for so damn long. Favorite Track: I Hang Suspended

Misophonia inducing. Almost worse than that one beatles song

yeah, its alright. i'd like it more if it wasn't called giant steps.

Liian pitkä brittisekoilu. Seassa ihan ok matskua mut miksi tämä on listalla (no tietty koska UK)

Pretty solid. Perhaps the forgotten Britpop band? 3.5/5

loved this

Really great indie vibes the lyrics are very relatable.

This one gets a 3 but it is a fun 3 not a meh 3. There is variety between individual tracks, but as a whole it blends together. Perfectly adequate britpop. Still it is probably is worth another listen to!

Pas mal je ne connaissais pas.

Listened to a few songs so I won’t shit on it. But it was forgettable

Pretty solid lil mixy

New boo radleys fan

Mostly passed me by whilst listening to this

I like all of the components. The songs, instruments, arrangements etc. somehow not quite greater than the sum of its parts, but I would listen to this again.

It’s okay - I don’t think it has that thing that makes it interesting or makes me want to listen again and again. Plus, it’s more than an hour long! Come on… it should have been 35 minutes at the most

Cool and mostly great album but again why is this an hour long? Cut the fluff please guys this drags in areas. Really cool guitar work throughout though

Bern - eight Louke - eight

I quite liked a few of these songs but it did get a bit repetitive and dragged on a bit too long for my liking Was nowhere near as bad as some of these ratings here make out 3 ⭐️

czy jest to dobry album? nie wiem nie udaje ze mam dobry gust dla mnie sie podoba

Some decent 90s Britpop with some good ideas and catchy hooks. The album couldn't maybe been a bit tighter and more cohesive by cutting a couple songs.

I was away for a week and when I returned and saw this album in my backlog I was looking forward to listening to it. However, it failed to live up to expectations. It wasn't bad, it was just boring, run-of-the-mill 90's britpop. I made it all the way through, even though a couple of tracks had me considering whether I should persist, so it's 2 stars from me.

"Wish I Was Skinny" is some nice enjoyable soft indie-rock sounding music. It sounds a lot like Guster, or Peach Pit, who I like. "Barney (...and me)" is a jam. "Best Lose the Fear" is nice. This album had a bunch of nice songs on it, and a bunch of boring songs. I definitely enjoyed it most of it, but didn't love much of it. They could've cut some songs out of this one. 6/10

This album is kind of all over the place. I was initially encouraged by the number of reviews I saw where people expected not to like this and were won over; I'm not sure that was my experience. This album certainly has its moments, but it's a looong one with a lot of moments. It felt like it went from track 1 to track 5 in the blink of an eye, and then when I thought I must be close to the end of the album, I was only on track 12 (of 17). The Boo Radleys are pretty clearly nostalgic for the late 60s - both the brit-pop of Beatlemania and the more psychedelic stuff (like yesterday's Byrds album). But in the next moment they us a much more 90s version of distorted guitar to kick off the next song or what I've dubbed "The Jurassic Park Orchestra" of dinosaur noises to end one. Based on the 90s brit-pop albums I've heard so far in this project, none of this is all that unusual. There must have been something in the water over there. I appreciate why people find this appealing, but I struggle to feel nostalgia for a 90s band who's whole shtick is nostalgia for bands of the 60s. To me, this feels like it's taking a lot more inspiration than it's giving out.

boring

This one was kinda boring.

Doesn't get boring but it's all a bit shit.

Its ok nothing that surprised me

I did not manage to finish it but what i heard really had my interest and i definitely will listen to it fully and again

A name I’d heard but I’ve never listened to them. It’s alright, some of the songs are a bit weak and the singing / playing not the best. I enjoyed some of the noisier songs and unusual instrumentation

Solides Album aber zu lang und zuviel Beiwerk.

It went on too long.

Another middling Brit bias pick on this 1001 Albums list that you definitely don’t need to hear before you die.About halfway through I accidentally stopped playback, and decided it was for the best and moved on.

I didn't listen to the whole album. I listened to the 1st three tracks. I really liked the guitar riffs. Reminded me of Smashing Pumpkins. The vocals seemed to trying to hard to be ethereal.

Records like this are why Gen X were known as the “slacker” generation.

It had its moments. 3/5

Unexpected pleasure.

Wish this was interesting.....it's pretty generic pop trash.

Based on the description, I kind of expected to hate this. But, it really wasn't that bad. Very 1993, but not bad.

J’y ai vu des précurseurs de Coldplay, Weezer peut-être. Correct dans l’ensemble. Ne sonne pas très original depuis notre point de vue actuel

I mean, half the time I didn't have much of an idea what was going on but I enjoyed it Lord knows how many genres have been combined into this one album, yet they manage to seam them together really well. I didn't enjoy the more traditional Britpop stuff though. This album is how I'd imagine a peaceful rollercoaster to be like Standout tracks: Upon 9th And Fairchild (I love those basslines and the reggae shit) Lazarus is beautiful If You Want it, Take It (that guitar solo is class)

Felt like a two but I was in a shit mood yesterday so probably really a 3.

Nondescript to me. I see why not as popular in the States.

I don't know. It was weird, noisy, inconsistent in both speed and rhythm. Clearly they are the spirit of psychedelic.

It was a mixed bag of sounds. Sometimes it was good, sometimes it was acoustically designed to pierce my eardrums with no warning. I liked the vibe that this music was going for, and there were standout songs. Overall a disappointing album and confusing addition to the list.

A decent listen. A heavily psychedelic influence permeates a brit-pop sound that has quite found it's legs yet and is reflecting the sound of other indie acts of the time. Overall, it's a pretty good sound. Would listen again.

I actually thought The Boo Radleys were a one hit wonder I was surprised they had so many albums. I quite enjoyed this album there was no standout track that grabbed me though.

Muy bueno

was okay. some weird alternative pop mesh. i don’t think i finished this. would probably rate a 2/5 just because i didn’t care for it. objectively not bad.

Wow. Really unexpected. Super post punk, veering into some fairly unusual proggy sort of sounding stuff. This is unusual... never heard of these guys. I find it interesting that the hive mind wants to say they are shoegaze... OK, I see elements of that, but My Bloody Valentine it is not!

Overall not that good…wasn’t bad either

Rock, Pop, 1993 -> 2

It’s like the Pixies went pop. The shoegaze genre can go two directions 1.consistent, well thought out and simple composition. Or more often 2.a heap of noise that resembles no consolidated idea. It’s like jazz without the talent. The singing here is decent, but too much is going. Oh and then there’s reggae out of nowhere.

They're named after a character in "To Kill A Mockingbird", they named an album the same name as another legendary album, and there are several references to pop culture throughout the album. This has to be a disaster, right? It's still versatile Alternative Rock, and I thought it would be much worse. It's not going to blow your mind away, but it won't melt it either. Favorite Track: "The White Noise Revisited".

01) I Hang Suspended - 6,0 02) Upon 9th and Fairchild - 6,5 03) Wish I Was Skinny - 7,0 04) Leaves and Sand - 6,0 05) Butterfly McQueen - 6,0 06) Rodney King (Song for Lenny Bruce) - 6,5 07) Thinking of Ways - 6,0 08) Barney (...and Me) - 6,5 09) Spun Around - 5,5 10) If You Want It, Take It -6,0 11) Best Lose the Fear -6,5 12) Take the Time Around - 6,5 13) Lazarus - 7,0 14) One Is For - 6,5 15) Run My Way Runway - 5,0 16) I've Lost the Reason - 6,0 17) The White Noise Revisited - 6,5 TOTAL: 6,24 (62/100) Current ranking: 451/603

Jangle, fuzz, spacey, these guitars have it all. I want to spend more time with this album but I don't know if it pulled me in enough to where I want to carve out the time. It's a tough call. 3.5/5

This wasn’t bad. Not great enough that I think I’ll ever go back to it, but I appreciate their creativity, they don’t sound like everybody else. There are lots of different ideas on here.

Very unique and super dynamic. Def saving this one for another listen

Incredibly creative and unique album. Indescribable mix of genres, sounds, and effects that really holds up 30 years later. Would love to return to this in the future.

genial e imprescindible. Un disco fuera de su tiempo que sigue maravillando. Los Boo siempre han publicado buenos discos, y canciones fabulosas como Wake up, pero con este Giant Steps crearon algo único. Psicodelia, distorsión, melodías (ese twee pop sueco en Wish i was a skinny), beatles, beach boys, shoegazing, dub... Todo encaja. Imprescindible.

From the name to the cover art to the sound i found this band very confusing

Kinda blah.

I had no idea what to expect but I was thinking it was going to be something jazzier? But then it ended up just being a mess of a bunch of different sounds all coated in that classic 90s sound. Listen, I love albums that mesh genres and styles but this album did not do a very good job at it. It didn't feel very cohesive and was mostly whiplash.

First song, I was pretty over it. More British Indie Pop. Bahhhhh. But.. it gets better as it goes on. It gets more interesting. Vocals and guitars get a little more obscure and experimental, but still kind of keep that classic indie rock sound. This was fine. Not something I really gravitate towards or listen to frequently, but it did get better as it went on.

Thank you, next.

This was good. There was a lot of variety in this record that hit a lot more than it missed. Favourite Track(s): Thinking of Ways, If You Want It, Take It, I've Lost the Reason Least Favourite Track(s): Leaves and Sand, The White Noise Revisited

Rating: 6/10 Pretty good indie rock, sounds like Billy Corgan.

I know this band for their horrific wake up boo song in the 90s. That song isn’t even on this album. It’s a none hit wonder

In the first song, the beat was good but the lyrics did not really matching the beat. The second song was not good in my opinion I thought the lyrics were not good but the beat was okay. In the third song I liked the lyrics and beat I would only recommend the third because it was a cathi song

I remember this being promoted with the notion that Martin Carr was a musical genius on the level of Brian Wilson. This is not, in fact, true. This album is a mish-mash of ideas, with some catchy tunes here and there, but nothing at all of any stature or substance. Frequent switches of style or genre within a song are not an indication of genius. Also, it is far too long - 17 songs, 64 minutes - with a feeling of "Never mind the quality, feel the width." Third rate, at best.

basic ahh 90s music

Interesting

Alternative

Det blir for langt, men skiva går i flere interessante retninger.

Another obscure britpop band for the pile.

Cool, need to listen more, like the mix of rock and groove

Some duff tracks on this

Kind of jam band like. It could’ve been worse 2.5 stars

"I wish I Was skinny" is sending me. I liked!

Ihan on musiikkia, mutta ei mitään sellaista, jota itse haluaisi kuunnella toistamiseen.

How The Boo Radleys are in here is beyond me, and the audacity to name your album after a John Coltrane album is frankly astounding. Rubbish.

Som Ween minus tull

Shrug emoji. Disappointed that there is no Squeeze on this fucking list emoji.

My non-musician scoring system. 5 - Love it. Would play anytime, buy, see live… 4 - Good music. 3 - Average playlist. Depends on time and setting. 2 - I can’t listen to whole songs. 1 - No.

Vaag album, maar ergens ook wel een vibe

I have to listen to this again. I'm on the fence here. I think this sounds like just the thing i like, but it's just not there. It sounds exactly like what I love, but it's a little too long, not many catchy tunes, I don't know. I'm gonna give it a 3. Might change my mind later.

Fun rock album, with some cool samples earlier on. 3/3.5 stars.

Too long and ended poorly but I mostly enjoyed this album from a band I didn't know. My fave part was in the middle with "Barney (and Me)" and "If You Want It, Take It." The Boo Radleys didn't totally take it, but I moderately enjoyed listening to it. I also want to throw the gauntlet down on writing the most obnoxious reviews.

God. I hated this. Soooo boring and lame. I remember no part of it. Pass.

I Hang Suspended...whatever Upon 9th...Interesting. I dunno but I think I could like this with multiple listens Wish I Was Skinny...old school teenage dream vibe I like Leaves & Sand...interesting sound and movement but is it a good song? meh Butterfly McQueen...again, interesting. But who is this for? Rodney King has a nice groove Thinking of Ways is aggressively British and I appreciate it Barney...Is that a Flute? Wtf is happening? Ok, I like it Spun Around...boring intro but I liked it by the end If You Want It...Pretty boring compared to everything else. Was this the radio friendly track? Best Lose the Fear is generic Take This Time Around...don't hate it but it feels like filler Lazarus...huh, I like the instrumental breakdown. Don't care for the rest One Is For...an unnecessary but appreciated acoustic interlude Run My Way Runway...Here's an experimental sound collage for you sickos! I've Lost the Reason...Like several other tracks, I really like some parts but not others The White Noise Revisited...plodding Now that I'm reading this it sounds more negative than I actually feel about it. I don't know how much I'll come back to this album in the future but it kind of won me over in the end.

There’s some formula about the better the name the worse the band. Certainly it applies here. It sounds like every other indie edgy band. Yes I’ve heard the clash and the smiths. You’re trying but you’re not there. In fact the lessons of those bands is not ‘copy us’ but ‘find your own sound’. It took jazz 35 years to learn that from Miles Davis. I suspect indie rock will take longer. Meanwhile this is 2.5 stars rounded down. I should take a point off for the album title.

It seems like every British musician who achieves a modicum of success thinks that their next record can be their Pet Sounds or White Album. That tendency is encouraged by an over-enthusiastic music press (or in this case, record label press officer) who hype musicians of medium talent to believe they are the next Brian Wilson. I feel like I have reviewed a lot of (mostly British) albums that fall into this trap. The hallmarks of this type of wannabe magnum opus include; genre-mixing, orchestration, 'experimental' noisescapes, neo-psychedelia, and an attempt to embrace 'universal' themes. And here we have Martin Carr's moment of attempted genius. And I think I have ticked off all the boxes on my 'delusions of grandeur' bingo card. It's not a bad attempt. He can craft a tune, I like that the guitars get a bit noisy from time to time. I can see how, if you were 19 and hadn't heard anything quite like this before, it would sound like the Best Thing Ever, especially if you got to see the band live on the tour. But frankly, I am old and jaded and I've heard this type of thing too many times to get excited. 2.5 stars, rounding down for over-egging the pudding.

kind of a mixed bag! there were some songs that i thought sounded cool, the guitar sound especially sounded a bit like oasis except with more interesting chord changes, but many of the other songs were either too experimental or too distortion-heavy for my taste. this is another band i've never heard of even by reputation and judging by their seemingly relatively low cultural impact seems to be included on this list mostly as a personal favorite of the author's

Didn’t care for the noise tracks, but really liked the tracks that had a more Britpop vibe. Overall, a mixed bag but leaning more to the positive side.

Maybe harsh but so unmerable

It's ok. I noticed that I can only enjoy this kind of genre when it's raining or in a quiet environment; otherwise, I start to tune out.

Meh

It is an alright album that suffers from a tiny bit of identity crisis.

En rekke fine låter pakket inn på en spennende måte. Nesten 4 ⭐️

Pleasant

The opening tracks were not bad, but it started to lose me as it went along. Too much random noise and noodling.

Fine

A mix of different 90s rock sounds. Nothing extraordinary.

I don't know. ok i guess. 2.5

head banging to the first song. lowkey really like this and im only 2 songs in. this is good im loving the vibes. Wish I was skinny im loving. song 6 from albums are always my fav and im loving this whole album. so my vibe. album is differnt to anything produced today, can tell its all real and authentic bunch of guys just having fun. different but good different.

An eclectic band moving between the different rock guitar sounds of the day (thick reverb soaked shoegaze textures, jangly indie pop strummy, nostalgic garage psych riffs and wah wah leads, crunchy britpop chords) and adding in horns and flutes and dub bass for a big hard charging sprawling record. The vocals have a Power pop melodic sensibility and a 60s harmonic sound paired with an experimental approach to recording with modulation and distortion. Opens very strongly, but a handful of slow quiet meandering tracks in the final third mean it drags on a bit too long - should've ended at Lazarus. There's so much great guitar on this, nothing flashy but perfectly delivered parts and tones.

What a joy. I had genuinely forgotten about the Boo Radleys, this is nearly as good as wake up boo a fabulous flab of pop/rock solid tunes great vocals.

This was a knife edge by the end, the second last song I thought was the best on the album. Unfortunately they finished off the album with a 5 minute song that was 4 minutes too long. I enjoyed it, but would it have a relisten? Probably not

This was probably the best of the show gaze run we’ve had. More energetic, easier listen but saying that doubtful I’d go back. Snuck a 3

This felt messy. Songs were okay individually but it was doing too many things

Zwischendurch ganz schön, melodisch, dann aber wieder Brüche, und in meinen Ohren Krach.

Hyggligt men plattan efter är mycket bättre.

I can't believe Interpol cited the Boo Radleys as an influence.

I've complained about Britpop on at least 15 reviews, including ones not by Britpop bands. There's a reason why it's usually listed as one of my least favorite genres on the summary page. 16 now because the Boo Radleys sound like a Britpop band in crisis. Do we become something more interesting? Or stick with generic blandness? Throughout "Giant Steps," the Boo Radleys repeatedly appear to take giant steps outside the genre, only to get sucked back in by the immense gravitational force of Britpop. Thanks to the 1001, I too have been repeatedly sucked into the black hole of Britpop - but soon, no more!

It's fine. It is identifiably 90s. It sometimes has that jangly sound like it could be a precursor to Belle and Sebastian. Mostly I am disappointed that after 1073 albums I am still asking "why is this album on the list".

This could be the final JBZ alert!!!! This album vacillates between weak 90s soft alternative and something better with a harder edge. At 64 minutes, I have to round down. This is too long.

not for me

Not for me.

This album has songs consisting of mostly noise and sound effects punctuated by great examples of pop brilliance. Yet even on some of those songs, this band feels compelled to add an extended outro of noise to an otherwise good song.

Enjoyed this. Much more interesting than the more commercialised stuff they did

A great album but probably a few songs too long. However some good sounds and a nice mix of styles. Lazarus has always been a favourite of mine but a few others I’d listen to again.

Another pleasant surprise that the list has thrown us. A really interesting mix of pop, Shoegaze and psychedelic rock that provides a few surprises. Possibly a tad too long and a bit disjointed but definitely worth another listen.

Album of youth alert! Psychedelic, dub, indie, shoegaze, a heady and seemingly intriguing mix. While it’s diverse, inventive and an interesting listen, with some good songs and moments, it always feels a bit disjointed and somewhat lightweight. While I’ve been drawn back on occasion over the years (usually because I want to hear Lazarus), I can’t ever remember doing so for more than one listen before ignoring it again for years. It just doesn’t grab you and shout ‘play me again’. It’s a good effort though, and I do recall seeing them at Glastonbury in the 90s, they were cracking live (I think, bit hazy on that).

Nothing stands out. Much of the album has the same saccharine jangly sound. At just over an hour, it’s just a lil too much.

Why is this the Giant Steps album they included? It wasn't a bad listen, but I'd be lying to myself if I said I was gonna listen to it again. Inoffensive boring Indie Rock with only a few moments of interest. There's a blend of a lot of different things here, all better done elsewhere. I'd probably give it a 3 on a good day, but a good day this is not.

17 songs and a run time of 1 hour and 4 minutes and not a single song stuck out.

This album is the audio version of opening ten tabs and not knowing where the music is coming from. A little dreamy here, a little poppy there, then suddenly saxophone?? It’s like a sonic identity crisis dressed in baggy jeans and optimism. Some parts almost work, but they never quite stick the landing. Maybe it’s meant to be clever, but mostly it feels like filler with reverb. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions: - Wish I Was Skinny

Mediocre.

"Hey what's that noise? Do you remember?" "Yeah this 1001 Album thing I'm too proud to admit that I should have stopped two years ago"

Pretty pretty pretty good

Besmislena buka. Grijeh je nazvati ovakav album istim imenom kao jedan od najvećih albuma ikad. 1/5, 1/10

I don’t know if this deserves to be on this list. I DO know it didn’t need to be over an hour long. Lots of fat to be trimmed

Liked it and will listen to it more. The noisy approach was fun, original and entertaining.

This is fine. Nothing mind-blowing, nothing horribly offensive. Straight-ahead 90s alterna-pop that made great background music at work.

Somehow missed this one when it came out even though I was DJing British Dance music nights shortly after. love it

This was nice nothing incredible just fun wacky songs. main problem is it's way too long over an hour with 17 tracks.

sounds like 90s indie rock. never heard of this band before but I've definitely heard a dozen bands that sound just like this.

I liked the shoegaze elements of this - unfortunately they were few and far between. Was far more underwhelming Britpop than anything else.

It was nice, standard 90s music. Enjoyed it but it didn't blow me away.

Another decent album that sounds like half of the other ones on this list, but they kept it weird enough to keep me interested the entire running time.

Missed this on. Never heard of album or the band. Looks like Lazarus was a hit. A little too noisy for me. Some production seems a bit gimmicky.

Didn't know much of the Boo Radleys beyond the obvious chart stuff. Thought this was a nice album - of its time but hasn't aged badly.

Really interesting, I enjoyed the variety. A great mix of sounds.

Sometimes interesting experimenting, whiffs of Incubus but more wandering than driving.

Nice.

Dad rock for dads who hit their prime in the 90s.

3.8/kind of smells like kind gizz. i like it

Surprised, liked the sound, album was too long though, not enough variation

This album fails to deliver anything worthwhile, with uninspired music and lackluster lyrics. There are no positive notes to mention, making it a disappointing and forgettable experience.

good listen to pass time at work or long drive. flows well

A good if uninteresting album. Good next deep dive into shoegaze id you want it.

2.75

never heard of this album going into it, but i really enjoyed it!

Vilken återupptäckt för mig

A much more interesting album than I expected. I might try and listen to this a bit.

Some interesting and good songs mixed with some experimental songs. Not an album i would listen through from start to finish again but the songs I liked might be something I will add to playlists.

Det var väldigt bra i början men sen gick det lite utför. Tror faktiskt jag lyssnat på detta albumet tidigare och hade lite samma upplevelse.

Jangly British landfill indie, if I had to classify it. Not quite terrible, but very unremarkable. Really, I have quite broad taste in music, and have heard a lot more that I don't like too. I'm over 50 years old, and in the last 30 years no one I know hads mentioned or recommended the Boo Radleys. There's a reason. This is tedious. I'm going to listen to Pavement. Still better than Morrissey, but save your ears. Two stars.

Not bad at all! Great music to have in the background while you're working or cleaning or whatever.

Not so innovative as Coltrane's Giant Steps. Not so catchy as the Monkees' Giant Step. Unlike the Great Leap Forward, completely bloodless. But, like Neil Armstrong's Giant Leap, it is airless. And, somehow, not even the sum of all these parts. Not a giant step, but a small feat. 1.5 What if perfectly pleasant pop tunes were as sonically interesting as experimental music? If this question was well answered more than a quarter of a century before the Boo Radleys’ Giant Steps no one told the Boo Radleys! There is a palpable sense throughout of the dullest man at the party inciting everyone to prepare to have their minds blown while he fumbles at the cd player with a copy of Revolver in his hands. Giant steps isn’t sonically interesting. The funny noises aren’t funny enough. The tunes are pleasant but forgettable. The singing utterly inoffensive. The drums and guitars sound shite, which is perhaps the most genuinely forward-looking part of this record; Oasis slouched towards Creation Records to be born. 1.5/5

No bad

This hit me right in my 90s kid brain. 97x BAM! the future of rock and roll.

This one was a little hit and miss for me, well mostly miss I guess. I didn’t mind Upon 9th and Fairchild, the first time I heard it, however after going back and listening to it again it wasn’t as good as I thought.

If I wanted to hear Oasis or the Beatles, I’d just put on Rubber Soul, Revolver or Definitely Maybe.

I am not really fan overall. The vocalist(s) washes out the overall sounds by being mostly too either monotone or subtle/breathy/thin. In my opinion band needs a different vocal sound to be a complete band. Sounds like Oasis to me— which is not a compliment. Best song that I can remember “Lazarus” but only the parts without singing…

Really great album. I didn't think I've learned to them before really.

Favorite Track: Lazarus

Pretty unremarkable

In a nutshell: a big old mess. You know when you’re cooking a meal, and you get carried away with “adding a bit more of this” or “let’s try a bit of that”? This is the product of that experimentation. I can hear Stone Roses, Suede and My Bloody Valentine. There are genre mashups here that could work but don't quite. It's messy and not in an endearing way. Overall: 3/10

I really enjoyed this album and I can definitely see myself returning to it down the line. It weaves through shoegaze, Britpop, psychedelia, dream pop, and indie rock, blending them smoothly to take the listener on a journey. One minute it’s bright and sunny, the next you’re immersed in a wall of noise and feedback with swirling guitars.

Right off the bat I was excited for this album for two main reasons: First, I had no idea who this band was, never heard of them. And second, I adore the album cover. It feels psychedelic but not like in a fun, colorful way. It is colorful, but it’s like dower muddled colors and it feels depressing. Which I was all very interested in. And aside from the cover my biggest praise of the album is that the production decisions and the overall sound of the album is wholly unique and intriguing. The problem, however, is that out of the 17 songs making up over an hour of music, I only liked 4 songs enough to save them (Lazarus, take the Time Around, Wish I Was Skinny, and my favorite track, Rodney King - Song for Lenny Bruce). Overall I find it hard to dislike this album despite so much of it is forgettable and skippable. It’s just so creative and most importantly DIFFERENT. Nothing sounds like this album and I can really appreciate that a lot. That being said I’m not going to remember this album until I stumble upon it in a record store, and that is IF I stumble upon it in a record store.

2.5? Meh

Shoegaze and noise pop? I feel like I like this style more than other psychedelic rock/pop genres. I like that this has 90s rock sound but wish it was less noisy ha

Finally caught up. Strong group

Liked the instrumentation. The vocals were okay

Interesting but not for me.

OK, but not that good.

Местами мелодично и интересно, но в некоторых треках есть раздражающие музыкальные завывания. Поэтому только 6,5 из 10.

Some interesting ideas here, but it seems like that's all it is: ideas experimented with and then quickly abandoned in pursuit of other ideas; attractive moments of pleasant melodies interrupted by unnecessary noise. I would describe this as a dirt-encrusted gem found lying in the woods somewhere. There's beauty here, and you might even see a twinkle if you tilt it the right way, but the caked-on dirt prevents you from really enjoying it - not to mention, the dirt adds an additional 50%-75% weight (in this case length) that makes you put it back down and look for more easily-accessible sparkle elsewhere. Shame.

There were certainly more ideas for this album. Too many of them, and I don’t think any of them were well executed. Nothing on this album was terribly painful to listen to. Nothing was really noteworthy either.

Solid.

Did not enjoy this one

it could be a 3 but it’s too long

Didn’t know this album, but it was pretty rad. Take a jangle pop base, mix it with it with noise/shoegaze, and sprinkle in some dub & psychedelia - and you get the Boo Radley stew going. Hooks are plentiful vocally and musically. It’s a unique and diverse, one second youre grooving to a dub bass, next you’re enjoying some poppy alt rock, and then topping it off with a noisy instrumental excursion. Good stuff.

Better than I anticipated. I would have liked it better if it was about 30 minutes shorter.

Fairly enjoyable but probably not something I'll listen to again.

I didn't hate it, but it didn't really do much for me.

A bit naff, ok but background music only

Kinda mid jangly semi acoustic rock. Nothing really stood out

I really appreciate the attempt at making an album here, and it pains me to give this such a low rating, with there being so much potential here with the amazing range of influences and good musicianship. But the extremely sloppy production as well as the complete lack of structure and pacing just make this album completely unlistenable.

Jedva čekam ovo čut. Ovo je kultni brtpop album meni je u devedetima bio dosadan i od tad sam ga slabo sluša

So many times I thought that this sounded like a harder Elliott smith

I was not previously familiar with the artist or album. I enjoyed this album. It sounds very much like 90s indie/alternative, in a good way. I would listen again.

Þetta var ekki gott

Allt í lagi en á ekkert erindi á þennan lista finnst mér. Lazarus er gott lag.

I'm so done of all that rock albums that sounds all the same. In this one, i felt like "ok, i already know you're a rock band, but bring me something new" but they failed on it. If that is the type of album i have to heard before i die, i rather die suddenly.

This album is all over the place. There's not a consistent sound through most of it. There is 60's folk, Brit-pop and some other stuff that I can't really name. I think some of these ideas were more interesting in theory than in reality. I am sure smarter people than I will listen to this and think it is brilliant. I see no reason to have it in the book other than to show just how much the editors know about music that misses the feeble knowledge of the general public.

I feel like it droned on for too long and that the songs were difficult to get through. I was looking forward to the album being over and had to take breaks. I can't quite put it at a 1 because there were some decent parts to some of the songs and this one doesn't give me the feelings that my 1 star albums do, but if I never hear this again it'd be too soon. 2/5.

Curse this list for making me think that any album by an obscure British band that’s over an hour is gonna suck ass. This was excellent, a mix of most of my favorite genres together into something that works perfectly as a full package. Could’ve been trimmed down a bit though, I mean, 17 songs? Really? At that point make two albums. Anyway still great, love it.

Love the mix of influences here, including one of my favorites, shoegaze. It doesn't get lost in the wall of sound though, but explores a lot of other areas including indie rock, jazz, and even reggae.

ok'ish, even rather good Beatles'hy rock

That was a tough one for me. Felt like a slog to get through it.

Listenable! Inspired Straylight Run and Connor Oberst, no doubt!

New band on my radar. Very solid rock. Loved the guitar distortion stylings. No standout tunes really.

My experience with british Pop from this list has been kind of miserable, so, after seeing the genre and the reviews of this album, I prepared myself to submit to another bland Pop album. However, I was surprised. This album is subtle and a bit experimental, as some cuts felt like song coming from Shoegaze and Dream Pop. Certaintly something to standout from the more generic and boring albums from the orginal genre this album comes from. If I give this a 3 star instead of 4, it's because it is more lengthy than it should have been un my opinion.

Absolutely SUPERB!

90s good getting to goth. deep tunes.