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You Love More Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
All Hail West Texas The Mountain Goats	5	3.01	+1.99
Repetition Unwound	4	2.84	+1.16
Rêver mieux Daniel Bélanger	4	2.96	+1.04

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Arctic Monkeys	1	3.03	-2.03
La cagaste... Burt Lancaster Hombres G	1	2.8	-1.8
Choirs Of The Eye Kayo Dot	1	2.63	-1.63
Sing To God Cardiacs	1	2.5	-1.5
Whipped Cream & Other Delights Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass	2	3.42	-1.42
Take to the Skies Enter Shikari	1	2.37	-1.37
Transatlanticism Death Cab for Cutie	2	3.28	-1.28
Englabörn Jóhann Jóhannsson	2	3.21	-1.21
Silence Yourself Savages	2	3.04	-1.04
Re Café Tacvba	2	3.04	-1.04

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Take to the Skies

Enter Shikari

1/5

Absolutely terrible. For incels and thirteen year old boys only.

2 likes

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

2/5

A bit plodding - I was expecting more energy.

1 likes

We Like It Here

Snarky Puppy

4/5

Modern jazz/funk? Liked it a lot.

1 likes

Tales Of Mystery And Imagination

The Alan Parsons Project

4/5

Oh wow, that's interesting - anyone else hear this as an antecedent to Tubular Bells? I sounds an obvious influence to me. Good stuff.

1 likes

1-Star Albums (5)

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Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Big Thief

4/5

Generally a nice noise. Lovely guitar and I like the shuffle rhythm - but the vocal melodies are hit and miss - very few hooks and none was memorable. Songs got progressively weaker. Some editing would have helped - there might have been enough material for one strong album, but definitely not a double.

The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings

Louis Armstrong

3/5

I like my dixieland jazz a bit hotter than this (e.g. the Dutch College Swing Band). These tracks very quickly all blurred into one. A nice enough sound, but nothing grabbed my attention.

Sing To God

Cardiacs

1/5

Awful. Unlistenable.

Silence Yourself

Savages

2/5

I couldn't listen to all this. I like some of the vocals - very reminiscent of Hazel O'Connor, but the guitar sound is horrible and songs disjointed, jerky and just simply not good enough.

Music For People In Trouble

Susanne Sundfør

3/5

Sort of nice, but not great. I made the mistake of listening to the first couple of songs, then putting on a Judee Sill track - the difference in quality and class was so massive, I couldn't go back. Sorry Susanne - "don't call us, we'll call you".

Take to the Skies

Enter Shikari

1/5

Absolutely terrible. For incels and thirteen year old boys only.

Choirs Of The Eye

Kayo Dot

1/5

Definitely not for me.

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

2/5

A bit plodding - I was expecting more energy.

Join Us

They Might Be Giants

3/5

Upbeat and happy-go-lucky sound. Nothing particularly grabbed me but it's a pleasant noise.

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Arctic Monkeys

1/5

Awful. Are they making it up as they go along? 'Saturday night...Sunday morning' was magnificent, but nothing they've done since comes anywhere close.

La cagaste... Burt Lancaster

Hombres G

1/5

Bloody Kisses

Type O Negative

2/5

Goth rock - but not in the Sisters of Mercy class.

All Hour Cymbals

Yeasayer

3/5

Meh. It's OK.

All Hail West Texas

The Mountain Goats

5/5

Wow! This is fantastic I love it.

A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

The 1975

2/5

Not for me.

We Like It Here

Snarky Puppy

4/5

Modern jazz/funk? Liked it a lot.

Rêver mieux

Daniel Bélanger

4/5

Nice music. Somehow, it still sounds odd to hear rock music in any language but English (though unaccountably, it's perfectly fine in folk), but I suppose that's just my parochialism.Whatever, this is clearly good stuff.

Game of Fools

Koritni

2/5

Competent riff-based rock, let down by the vocals. By coincidence, Mick Ralphs died last week so I was promped to listen to Bad Company to remind myself how it should really be done.

World Of Echo

Arthur Russell

3/5

Interesting echoes of John Martyn. I'm not normally keen on the avant garde, but this was unusually listenable.

Poesía Básica

Extrechinato y Tu

3/5

Musi good, but rock sounds wrong to me in Spanish. I don't have a rational explanation, because I'm fine with Spanish folk music. So it's good but not for me.

Tales Of Mystery And Imagination

The Alan Parsons Project

4/5

Oh wow, that's interesting - anyone else hear this as an antecedent to Tubular Bells? I sounds an obvious influence to me. Good stuff.

Englabörn

Jóhann Jóhannsson

2/5

Café Tacvba

2/5

Repetition

Unwound

4/5

Interesting - I liked this, though not sure how to classify it (yes, I know there's no need): semi-metal?

Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

2/5