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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|
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World Of Echo
Arthur Russell
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5 | 2.53 | +2.47 |
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Weighing Souls With Sand
The Angelic Process
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5 | 2.61 | +2.39 |
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Harbor Lights
Bruce Hornsby
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5 | 2.66 | +2.34 |
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Diorama
Silverchair
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5 | 2.8 | +2.2 |
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Grace And Danger
John Martyn
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5 | 2.9 | +2.1 |
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Emotional Mugger
Ty Segall
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5 | 2.91 | +2.09 |
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22, A Million
Bon Iver
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5 | 2.94 | +2.06 |
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Diamond Jubilee
Cindy Lee
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5 | 3.03 | +1.97 |
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Puzzle
Biffy Clyro
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5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
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Crack the Skye
Mastodon
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5 | 3.07 | +1.93 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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The Grass Is Blue
Dolly Parton
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1 | 3.23 | -2.23 |
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Paid In Full
Eric B. & Rakim
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1 | 3.21 | -2.21 |
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Body Talk
Robyn
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1 | 3.15 | -2.15 |
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God Shuffled His Feet
Crash Test Dummies
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1 | 3.01 | -2.01 |
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Once
Nightwish
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1 | 2.76 | -1.76 |
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Neutral Milk Hotel
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2 | 3.53 | -1.53 |
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Fashion Nugget
CAKE
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2 | 3.51 | -1.51 |
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TEKKNO
Electric Callboy
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1 | 2.44 | -1.44 |
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Ants From Up There
Black Country, New Road
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2 | 3.44 | -1.44 |
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Give Up
The Postal Service
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2 | 3.43 | -1.43 |
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| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Bon Iver | 3 | 4.67 |
5-Star Albums (20)
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Quicksand · 5 likes
3/5
When you order Undertow-era Tool from Temu.
Daft Punk · 3 likes
4/5
The perfect musical accompaniment to cooking curried sausages whilst battling the flu. Merci Daft Punk!
Vampire Weekend · 3 likes
2/5
I was looking forward to hearing this album, but the more it went on the more it grated on me. Just found it wimpy and the dude's thin voice became an endurance test. Made pop-rock nerds Weezer seem like death metal.
Shania Twain · 3 likes
2/5
Corny cash-grabbing pop country with a slick American sheen and all smooth edges.
BABYMETAL · 2 likes
2/5
Video game music meets desperately trying to be cool/modern/popular. All flash and no feel.
1-Star Albums (7)
All Ratings
Savages
3/5
Billy Squier
4/5
Angelo De Augustine
4/5
Porter Robinson
3/5
TOOL
5/5
Jellyfish
4/5
The Marcus King Band
4/5
The Postal Service
2/5
Courteeners
3/5
Dave Matthews Band
4/5
THE SPORTS
2/5
Fontaines D.C.
3/5
John Mayer
5/5
Louis Armstrong
3/5
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
3/5
The Lumineers
4/5
Boy Azooga
4/5
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
3/5
Tame Impala
4/5
Status Quo
2/5
Silly schlock rock. Lots of notes that don't quite fit, minor pentatonic guitar noodling. Just average forgettable 70's rock.
Marillion
2/5
Nope.
Procol Harum
2/5
Silly precursor to prog-rock. Great musicians, but just not playing great songs here. Reminds me of some of Peter Gabriel's sillier songs.
The Burning Hell
3/5
Nuyorican Soul
3/5
4/5
Jóhann Jóhannsson
3/5
Freddie Gibbs
2/5
Mustafa
3/5
Men I Trust
3/5
Graham Parker
3/5
That Handsome Devil
2/5
Adam Green
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
Garbage
2/5
Robyn Hitchcock
3/5
The Avett Brothers
3/5
The B-52's
2/5
Hombres G
3/5
Ty Segall
5/5
Vampire Weekend
3/5
Zesty!!!
The Tragically Hip
3/5
Garmarna
3/5
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
4/5
Gotcha!
2/5
Wussy
3/5
MF DOOM
2/5
Freestylers
2/5
Frank Zappa
3/5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
4/5
blink-182
4/5
Jimmy Buffett
3/5
4/5
Igorrr
2/5
The Beautiful South
3/5
Protomartyr
4/5
The Weeknd
3/5
Joan As Police Woman
4/5
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
3/5
Haley Heynderickx
3/5
Amadou & Mariam
3/5
Susanne Sundfør
4/5
Steven Wilson
3/5
Salif Keita
3/5
Debbie Gibson
2/5
Phish
3/5
My Chemical Romance
4/5
Oingo Boingo
2/5
The War On Drugs
3/5
Switchfoot
3/5
Josh Ritter
4/5
Valerie June
3/5
Bad Religion
4/5
Gang of Youths
5/5
Sparks
2/5
Gurrumul
3/5
Richard Dawson
2/5
LaBelle
3/5
Damien Rice
3/5
Bloc Party
3/5
Fairly melodic stuff, but the singer has such a yowly-splatty voice that it's definitely not something I'd revisit often, if ever.
Arctic Monkeys
3/5
Tally Hall
4/5
Jai Paul
3/5
Ani DiFranco
4/5
King Tubby
3/5
The Alan Parsons Project
3/5
Pink Floyd
4/5
Sunny Day Real Estate
4/5
Stars
3/5
Sampha
2/5
100 gecs
3/5
Mary Chapin Carpenter
2/5
Screaming Females
3/5
Bruce Springsteen
4/5
4/5
The Hold Steady
4/5
Tori Amos
3/5
Streetlight Manifesto
2/5
If Sublime, Reel Big Fish, NOFX, and Temu had sexy time, nine months later they may give birth to something like this.
Bran Van 3000
2/5
Nik Kershaw
2/5
I find it hard to believe that someone listened to the 1001+ albums, then thought "You know what's missing? That Nik Kershaw album!"
Khruangbin
4/5
Pedro The Lion
4/5
What a great lyricist this guy is. I really enjoyed living inside the world created in this album. Definitely an artist to explore further. Thanks!
Maldita Vecindad Y Los Hijos Del 5to. Patio
3/5
Chromatics
3/5
Rachel Stevens
3/5
Koritni
4/5
If Jimmy Barnes had a jam with the rhythm section of AC/DC, and asked Slash to play some sick solos from time to time. Great stuff!
Daniel Bélanger
3/5
That time that Ed Sheeran and David Gray jizzed into a baguette on top of the Eiffel Tower.
Cluster
3/5
Faith No More
2/5
When you order Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica albums from Temu, and they send you this instead.
Snarky Puppy
4/5
Korn
2/5
Juvenile, emotionally disturbed music for the angry 12-year-old boys of the 90's. 100% gimmick music.
Childish Gambino
4/5
Killswitch Engage
3/5
Anaïs Mitchell
3/5
That time that Tom Waits had a jam with the cast of Sesame Street.
The Sound
3/5
When Jim Morrison had a singalong with the members of Joy Division, Television and U2.
Childish Gambino
4/5
Primus
2/5
Super technically proficient, but a style of music and humour that doesn't fit these ears. I get the hype surrounding these dudes (Les Claypool in particular), just not for me.
Ian McDonald
3/5
Type O Negative
3/5
The Dear Hunter
4/5
Shania Twain
2/5
Corny cash-grabbing pop country with a slick American sheen and all smooth edges.
They Might Be Giants
3/5
Happy & lively nasally cartoon songs for people who wanna rock a little bit, but not too much.
2/5
The opening track is pretty good, then devolves into computer nerd bloops and bleeps.
Kano
2/5
Thee Oh Sees
3/5
Death Cab for Cutie
3/5
GAS
3/5
Vulfpeck
4/5
Operation Ivy
2/5
Hikaru Utada
2/5
Jeff Rosenstock
3/5
Jimmy Eat World
3/5
Marillion
2/5
Death
2/5
HELLYEAH
1/5
The National
2/5
The music is well-recorded and crisp, but the dude just intoning a range of about 3-4 deep notes just isn't enough to warrant a memorable album. Melody is everything.
Yeasayer
3/5
A fascinating background music vibe.
Earth, Wind & Fire
3/5
Mogwai
3/5
Polvo
3/5
Slowdive
3/5
The Mountain Goats
4/5
blink-182
3/5
John Martyn
5/5
Modest Mouse
3/5
Mull Historical Society
4/5
Sublime
4/5
Titus Andronicus
3/5
When Conor Oberst has been listening to a steady diet of The Replacements and Mumford & Sons.
Café Tacvba
3/5
Shudder To Think
2/5
Gross.
Neutral Milk Hotel
2/5
Silly music with a dreadful singer. Not deserving of the hype surrounding it.
The Chats
4/5
Stromae
2/5
Kaizers Orchestra
3/5
Cardiacs
2/5
Chet Baker
4/5
Harmonium
2/5
Extrechinato y Tu
3/5
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel
2/5
The Amazing Devil
2/5
When Mumford & Sons watched a bunch of Disney films and got obsessed with those earnest male & female ballads.
INXS
3/5
CAKE
2/5
Kayo Dot
3/5
Transvision Vamp
2/5
Joe Jackson
3/5
TOOL
3/5
Chloe x Halle
3/5
Charli xcx
4/5
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
3/5
Les sheriff
3/5
The Decemberists
4/5
Brilliant music, but the voices are not really that pleasant on the ears. A shame really, as with a better male singer these songs could soar to new heights. Probably worthy of a relisten though.
Crash Test Dummies
1/5
Nope.
Chappell Roan
4/5
Karnivool
4/5
Bon Iver
5/5
Biffy Clyro
5/5
Oh fuck yeah! Fantastic album!! Thank you!!!
Bon Iver
5/5
Jimmy Eat World
3/5
Mylène Farmer
3/5
Weezer
4/5
The Upsetters
3/5
Courtney Barnett
4/5
Amon Düül II
3/5
The Posies
4/5
Nice poppy melodies. And a perfect closing track.
The Vaccines
3/5
Boards of Canada
4/5
Alexisonfire
2/5
Stupid music, though I love Dallas Green's City and Colour project.
Some music and some words.
The Stooges
4/5
Avicii
3/5
Teenage Fanclub
4/5
Roky Erickson
4/5
Joe Cocker
3/5
Nightwish
1/5
Roger Waters
3/5
Avenged Sevenfold
2/5
Cartoon rock.
Sports Team
3/5
Olivia Rodrigo
4/5
The Cure
3/5
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
Songs: Ohia
3/5
The 1975
3/5
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's
4/5
System Of A Down
3/5
Aerials is a 5/5 perfect song, and I've loved it since it was released. But... everything else on here is a form of audio insanity. Nuts music. Like a mental breakdown set to weird atonal riffing guitars.
Bob Mould
4/5
Carly Rae Jepsen
3/5
Wishbone Ash
3/5
Alex Cameron
3/5
A slightly more unhinged clone of Robbie Williams.
Calibro 35
4/5
4/5
The Tragically Hip
3/5
When you order R.E.M. from Temu.
First Aid Kit
3/5
When you order R.E.M. from Temu.
Jack Johnson
3/5
Talking Heads
3/5
Fontaines D.C.
4/5
David Baerwald
4/5
Ornette Coleman
3/5
Chucklehead
3/5
Guy Clark
4/5
Emicida
3/5
Martha
3/5
Times New Viking
3/5
Amyl and The Sniffers
3/5
Refused
4/5
Björk
3/5
4/5
The Angelic Process
5/5
The Breeders
3/5
Arthur Russell
5/5
TOOL
4/5
Talk Talk
4/5
Alexisonfire
3/5
Unwound
3/5
Arca
2/5
Nope. Stupid music.
Backstreet Boys
2/5
Listened to the first few tracks with open ears, then my younger self kicked in and I just felt it was cheesy tunes written by committee with the sole intention of feeding the commercial money machine side of the music industry. Corny stuff. Glossy and empty.
Madvillain
3/5
Bon Iver
4/5
Great Big Sea
3/5
R.E.M.
3/5
Noname
3/5
Daft Punk
4/5
The perfect musical accompaniment to cooking curried sausages whilst battling the flu. Merci Daft Punk!
New Model Army
2/5
Chris de Burgh
2/5
Cheesy and dated songwriting.
Daft Punk
3/5
Al Stewart
3/5
The Jesus Lizard
3/5
Dead Boys
3/5
Manchester Orchestra
5/5
Beyoncé
3/5
Spose
3/5
Johnny Winter
3/5
Ex-Easter Island Head
4/5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
4/5
Ween
4/5
Sam Fender
4/5
Touché Amoré
4/5
Enter Shikari
3/5
Crystal Castles
3/5
TOOL
4/5
Jason Isbell
4/5
Yo La Tengo
3/5
Lady Gaga
2/5
Neil Cicierega
3/5
The Chameleons
3/5
Portishead
3/5
Psyche Origami
4/5
Lo Fidelity Allstars
3/5
The Caretaker
3/5
No. A full album of scratchy record static with strains of the Coronation Street theme does not an album make. 2/5 stars, but bonus point for some killer cover art. If I'm craving ambient music, my go-to is the series Brian Eno made in the 70's. An interesting listen though.
Magdalena Bay
3/5
Frightened Rabbit
3/5
Final Fantasy
3/5
Medeski, Martin & Wood
3/5
Vangelis
4/5
Screeching Weasel
3/5
Electric Callboy
1/5
Gross.
Duncan Dhu
2/5
Rita Ora
3/5
Melodic generic pop in a world already filled to the seams with melodic generic pop.
Deltron 3030
3/5
John Coltrane
4/5
Os Mundi
3/5
Tosca
3/5
Chill background music for an upmarket burger joint. Melodic, groovy, and immediately forgettable.
Jon Batiste
4/5
ISIS
3/5
Pearl Jam
4/5
An album that has lived in my DNA since 1993. I hadn't listened to the album, or much Pearl Jam, in the last few years, but I sang along to every lyric and guitar fill when I listened to this again. Definitely their creative peak, with such a great blend of the melodic and the raw. Each subsequent album from here on had less and less of that fire and fury. I'd have given this a 5 back in the '90's, but these days it's a 4.
Yellowcard
3/5
Cat System Corp.
2/5
Yeah nah. This arty experiment does not make an album. Definitely something different, but not something that works for my ears.
Ah I’m sure the frontman has something interesting to communicate in his lyrics, but I just couldn’t get past the grating sound of the vocals by around the 4th song. Such an odd thing, to be a singer who can’t actually sing. Cool cover art though.
The Who
3/5
The Groundhogs
3/5
Reincidentes
3/5
Kashmir
4/5
Aesop Rock
4/5
Dream Theater
3/5
Great guitar playing, but the keening vibrato-laden singing dates this music as a product of its era.
Floating Points
3/5
Baroness
5/5
Fuck yeah that was a great listen. I really liked how the singer had a strong emphasis on melody. Guttural sounding guitar and rhythm section, but with strong hooky melodies over the top. Sucked in from the 2nd track onwards. Definitely a band I'm looking forward to exploring further. Thank you to whoever submitted this album :-)
"Weird Al" Yankovic
2/5
of Montreal
4/5
Agalloch
3/5
BABYMETAL
2/5
Video game music meets desperately trying to be cool/modern/popular. All flash and no feel.
Bruce Hornsby
5/5
The title track has genius level piano playing in it (that intro!) and a guitar solo by Pat Metheny that is its own masterpiece. Bruce Hornsby is a genius level jazz pianist cleverly straddling the line between pop hooks and jazz harmony. Been a fan of his for years. Fantastic stuff.
Boredoms
2/5
Fall Out Boy
3/5
Upbeat, melodic pop rock. Song after song after song. A formula repeated from first track to last.
Turnpike Troubadours
2/5
Run of the mill glossy country stuff. Chord progressions that could be predicted a mile away, standard guitar and fiddle stuff. No rough edges, and that twangy country vocal style. Americans sure love this shit. I don't.
The Heads
2/5
Amália Rodrigues
3/5
BABYMETAL
2/5
Yoko Ono
3/5
The Tragically Hip
3/5
When you order R.E.M. from Temu.
The Church
3/5
Charly García
3/5
David Allan Coe
2/5
Goddamn that’s some cheesy country music. This stuff all sounds so same-ish, artist to artist, album to album, song to song.
Shihad
4/5
Part of the DNA of my kiwi adolescence, Shihad are NZ's best hard rock band. On this album they combine battering ram rhythm section intensity with super hooky melodic vocals. Fuck yeah!
Michael Hurley
3/5
Barenaked Ladies
2/5
Silly goofy stuff. Not my cup of tea.
Stray From The Path
2/5
The angry-white-boy soundtrack for when you're 12 years old, and your mom grounds you and takes away your video game console.
Metric
3/5
Living Colour
3/5
This should tick my boxes. I'm a guitar teacher, love a good riff, a funky beat, and high energy music. But it just sounds like such a product of its era, including treble-heavy production and overly earnest singing. I should feel something from it, but feel nothing. Not unpleasant, but not particularly pleasant either. Definition of a 3.
Ozzy Osbourne
4/5
4/5
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
3/5
Various Artists
2/5
Blackalicious
3/5
Espers
4/5
Paul McCartney
4/5
Built To Spill
3/5
Everything Everything
4/5
Quicksand
3/5
When you order Undertow-era Tool from Temu.
Comus
2/5
Paramore
4/5
65daysofstatic
3/5
Modern Life Is War
2/5
Awww the boy with the microphone needs a cuddle.
Charles Aznavour
2/5
Non.
Tom Misch
4/5
Powderfinger
3/5
A couple of ok singles, but very same-ish, and is that kind of rock that doesn’t really rock at all. Very safe and very plain.
Depeche Mode
2/5
Ookla The Mok
2/5
Shpongle
3/5
Alabama 3
4/5
WHY?
4/5
Savatage
2/5
Denzel Curry
3/5
Chico Science
3/5
Lift To Experience
4/5
Jaco Pastorius
4/5
Weezer
4/5
Pink Floyd
5/5
Spinvis
3/5
The music's pretty chill, like Radiohead-lite. And the singer dude kinda sounds like he's mutter-singing in English then needs to clear his throat and hock a loogie. Then I remember he's singing in another language, and it dawns on me I have no fucking clue what he's singing, or singing about.
Robyn
1/5
Awful.
Eric B. & Rakim
1/5
Mac Miller
4/5
Swans
3/5
I'd been wanting to listen to this album for years. I listened. I never will again.
Tom Petty
4/5
Brand New
5/5
Ween
3/5
Various Artists
2/5
2/5
Nujabes
4/5
Foxing
3/5
When you ask AI to create a band that sounds sorta like Arcade Fire.
Black Devil Disco Club
3/5
Cindy Lee
5/5
Glass Animals
3/5
Descendents
2/5
Needs some kind of melody to go with the punk angst. Just a bunch of short sameish tunes that all blend into one kinda half-sketched out thing.
Dolly Parton
1/5
Fuuuuuckin' hell I hate fiddle and banjo. Reckon there's a special place in hell that's just this kind of corny country shit played nonstop forever. Fuck no.
Mr. Bungle
3/5
Ornatos Violeta
3/5
Harry Styles
4/5
Deafheaven
4/5
Warren Zevon
4/5
Future Islands
3/5
I was introduced to this band by the oddest live performance of the opening track on the Letterman show back when the album dropped. The singer's bobbing marionette-style movement and Kermit-meets-Morrissey-meets-death-metal style of singing made for some interesting viewing. Rewatched that clip again today and it's just as odd as I remembered. This album? Just a collection of same-ish synth-pop songs.
Malibu
4/5
Nic Jones
3/5
Ah, the springy and agile acoustic guitar playing was pretty tasty and really well performed and recorded, but I'm just not a fan of that overly earnest and keening vocal style that's the standard with this kind of folk music. Give me some instrumental Michael Hedges acoustic guitar playing any day over this, or some John Martyn. Cool to have heard it though, as I'd never heard of this acclaimed album before.
Matthew Good Band
3/5
Bright Eyes
4/5
Chuck Berry
4/5
Crass
2/5
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
3/5
Wet Leg
3/5
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3/5
Pop Will Eat Itself
2/5
Turnstile
4/5
Rodríguez
3/5
Auri
3/5
Billy Strings
3/5
The Notwist
4/5
Q65
3/5
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
3/5
Songs: Ohia
3/5
Zamilska
4/5
Danny Brown
2/5
Soul Coughing
3/5
Bruce Cockburn
4/5
Daft Punk
4/5
Vampire Weekend
3/5
Bo Burnham
3/5
Hamilton Leithauser
3/5
ROSALÍA
3/5
DARKSIDE
3/5
No Doubt
4/5
Yello
2/5
Beyoncé
3/5
Porcupine Tree
3/5
August is Falling
3/5
Getatchew Mekurya
4/5
Mastodon
5/5
Mansun
2/5
Gerry Cinnamon
3/5
Imogen Heap
4/5
Muse
3/5
Lady Gaga
3/5
Queens of the Stone Age
4/5
The Weakerthans
3/5
STARSET
2/5
The Mountain Goats
3/5
Porcupine Tree
4/5
The Civil Wars
4/5
Vince Guaraldi Trio
4/5
Wilco
3/5
Digable Planets
3/5
Lizzy McAlpine
4/5
Extremoduro
2/5
Current 93
2/5
Broken Social Scene
4/5
Ryan Adams
4/5
The Hold Steady
3/5
When the singer from Counting Crows decided that the vocal stylings of Van Morrison were no longer his thing, and went deep down a musical rabbit hole consisting only of Elvis Costello and Randy Newman vocals. And told his band to listen to nothing but 70's Stones, and Big Star.
NOFX
4/5
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore
3/5
Less Than Jake
3/5
Low
4/5
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
3/5
When George Harrison took an industrial dose of mushrooms, and listened to his aunt's old Nursery Rhymes collection LP, and the isolated vocals of Television's 'Marquee Moon' album, on repeat.
Queen
4/5
Vampire Weekend
2/5
I was looking forward to hearing this album, but the more it went on the more it grated on me. Just found it wimpy and the dude's thin voice became an endurance test. Made pop-rock nerds Weezer seem like death metal.
Mac DeMarco
3/5
Wobbly and twee sounding music. Just found it really same-ish, and that guitar tone really grated after a few songs. Not bad, just not great.
Zero 7
4/5
The Housemartins
2/5
Yeah nah.
Helloween
2/5
Music you put on your cassette player when you're 12 years old and angry at your parents and siblings. And outgrow by age 13.
Massive Attack
4/5
Roy Harper
3/5
311
2/5
White dorks. Can imagine the baggy jeans, bleached hair and soul patches. Dated cheese.
Jawbreaker
3/5
My Morning Jacket
4/5
Clutch
4/5
Black Country, New Road
2/5
When you order albums by Dave Matthews Band, Arcade Fire, and Bright Eyes from Temu.
The Ike Reilly Assassination
4/5
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
2/5
Counting Crows
5/5
In my DNA. I met 6 out of the 7 band members at their gig in Auckland in 2003, and they signed my fave album of theirs, Recovering The Satellites. And Adam signed the T-shirt I was wearing. The magic sloooooowly disappeared from album 2 onwards, with a scattering of truly great tracks on albums 3 and 4, then poof. But this.. this is magic.
Wolf Alice
4/5
Slapstick
2/5
Run of the mill ska punk tunes with the kind of singer that has razors in their throat.
Tyler, The Creator
3/5
Paco de Lucía
3/5
Silverchair
5/5
Porcupine Tree
3/5
Foo Fighters
5/5