1001 Albums Summary

Great atmospheric album, you can really feel Hawley's influences in his songwriting and performance. Found two new faves in The Ocean and Last Orders. Will return to this album when the atmosphere calls for it.

Awkward timing but then that’s the essence of adolescence, which this album captures so sweetly.

There’s an interesting argument about whether this or Purple Rain is the more essential Prince album. I enjoyed that debate more than the album itself. It’s definitely more intellectual and maybe breaks more ground sonically - it’s certainly fun to pick up its influence on more recent artists, but makes me more excited to jump forward to D’Angelo or jump back to Purple Rain.

Big sound rooted in their influences (blues, radiohead, clapton) that, all these years later, sound indelibly like the mid-aughts, Black Keys and truck commercials.

Another album more interesting as an experiment of its time an an influence on future music of the era. Doesn’t have the same staying power as other genre bending stuff like Sgt Pepper or Donovan.