I gave it a go, didn’t leave much of an impression besides the air of coolness that comes with listening to French language stuff (I don’t speak French)
This is long and feels long. Still the very good tracks are very very good (Midnight City / Waut). Rest are no comparison.
Like a tech demo that he’ll come back to later to add the sizzle
I’m enjoying that very ‘90s’ sound that is hard to describe
It’s the way the tune the guitars or what pedals they use or something completely different maybe. It’s like a lost technique. Perhaps recording equipment has advanced to far to ever be able to replicate it. Probably the original stuff is buried in some liminal space
I know the are called Heart, have the soft focus picture as the cover and have a love heart into parts of it…but I was still expecting it to be heavier. I’m sure they have heavier songs elsewhere otherwise I’ve got them mixed right up with someone else.
The first four track were pretty dull and drippy but then Cool, Kind and Lemon Eyes must be my brainwashing activator words because it was like a different much more interesting varied surprising album from that.
Not sure how to rate it yet
Not sure whether I should go back and give those first four a second chance or just leave it a a weird quirk
3.5 rounded down
I think I complained about a Kanye album by saying that his vocal track was completed disconnected to the music itself…yet I really this for that exact reason, like the music was just there to try contain him and distract him occasionally before he blasts off into another flow. I guess I just don’t like Ye.
Was only sparsely aware of Aesop Rocks so this was great as a proper introduction. 4 stars.
Almost certainly the style at the time but everything here sounds like it has so much effects and sweetening applied that it sounds very artificial
Saying that, the underlying sway along beats are decent
Emo is a genre that I’ve never got on with. Occasionally teases being a bit heavy and then the vocals start and I immediately lose interest.
Solid pop
solid punky sound - 2.5 rounded down
First track is a great opener lulling you into thinking it’s just gonna be bog standard pop album then all the screening starts.
Hadn’t listened to her before and probably never would but this was enjoyable, maybe I’ll listen to her others. 3.5 rounded up
This album feels so insincere that if their wiki origin story was ‘some guys founded a band solely to score chicks’ I’d believe them.
Easily feels like they should have been the band playing house parties in the American Pie cinematic universe.
I’m got limited knowledge of this as a genre but I’m pretty sure every song is the same format, slow traditional start before the breakdown and the viola playing fast as fuck for it. Repeat for three choruses, then next track.
I think Interpol are a band I always assumed I’d listen to and like but I never actually have so I’m looked forward to this.
Is this one of the world most important 1001 albums? No
Can I understand why people would put this forward? Yes
Was this a great listen that I’ll revisits and will explore their other work? Absolutely
Nothing impressed me in the first batch of songs to e courage me to listen to anymore
This was a bit confusing, I can’t really remember or pinpoint what genre it was. Found myself nodding along at times then other times thinking it had starting playing random
A cool concept
I found the blend on YouTube and listened to it and it sounded like…a flaming lips album…it was actually more interesting to listen to the individual parts as the ‘missing’ stuff made each song more gimmicky and unique
This does not pass the Tremors town test.
It’s inoffensive enough that it feels harsh to give it 1 star but it’s probably the least interesting one we’ve had
This very much succeeds in the characters in American Pie would listen to this test. Which isn’t really a good thing. Bland butt rock.
Not Nineteen Forever is a great track, feels like I’ve heard that on every British coming of age show on Telly.
I can’t shake Arctic Monkeys when I listen to the rest of their stuff, which isn’t a bad thing.
I kind of had Pulp down as a gimmick band with a few hits until quite recently when it turns out they have quite a large back catalogue of solid stuff.
This had some songs on it I had no idea were them which is bizarre given his voice is so distinctive. All round really well made stuff.
3.5 rounded up.
Never bothered with these guys as I was falling out with metal when they were coming up.
Not upset with my decision as it feels very ‘by committee’, throwing loads of things at the wall at once to make something not quite anything.
I’ve been listening to Trees recently having found a new appreciation for acid folk so this is a nice discovery
(I reckon if this had come up two months earlier I wouldn’t have given it a chance)
3.5 rounded up
My previous experience with DT is pretty much limited to one song, Glass Prison, which I heard before I realised songs were allowed to be longer than 5 minutes and loved it. I tried one other song and it was nothing like it so I just fixated on the one I liked and never listened to any more.
Would this album be like Glass Prison, or would it be like that other one I’ve forgotten
(Spoiler it’s presumably like the one I’ve forgotten)
Occasionally good instrumental bits but too long and so overblown that it’s cycles past parody back into sincerity all the back into parody again.
Perfectly serviceable American indie. I liked the slower stuff and the heavier stuff when it cropped up.
An album that is immediately blunted by the radio that follows it. Decent synth in a world of great synth
If metalcore is a wolf, then this evolution of it is a pug. Dreadful but folk online seem to like them.
Fun is the right word. Feels like a more natural evolution of its genre then that one a few days ago. Perhaps helped by being listened to in summer which seems its perfect setting.
In my review for the last Alex Harvey album i said it left no impression which is now even more scathing given that this is some Scottish as fuck glam prog-y weirdness. It’s mostly silly bollocks but I do like it.
Feels like ‘your favourite cheesy rocker’s favourite cheesy rocker’. Perfectly fine.
2.5 rounded down.
This seems like a good entry point to jazz and does have a bit of that strange 90s production sound dropping over it.
Stand out: Spy Kiss (a baseline that walks up and down your spine)
Some odd compositions in here, but it shows they are thinking about it and not just churning a record out.
Shades of Alanis Morrisette, a bit Norah Jones coffee table sound here and there.
Stand out: Fixture Picture is a nice opener, with a chorus you could cover and use in pretty much any other genre.
(Damn was also another, where they slowed right down)
Pop music has really evolved from when I used to listen to it on CDs while working in retail. Sounds very grown up, and happy so its own thing.
Stand outs: She is probably the one I’d happily listen to again but any of the first three were also good. Fine Line was also a great closer.
A bit too long (Canyon Moon and Treat People… feel like they could easily be chopped) so I’ll round to a 3
Never really like classic rock opera and this doesn’t change my mind.
If you listen to anything - Mary on a Cross is their go to
Catching up on a few I missed is ’you had like 5-7 Elvis Costello and you still wanted someone who sounds just the same from the same era’
No real stand outs but inoffensive
Never Too Much is the pinnacle, sadly for the rest of the album it’s track one. Solid else wise though feels out of place as an 80s release
Stand out: Higher Love
There is plenty of representation of Depeche Mode already but that is not to say this wasn’t a good listen. Probably a four if Violator doesn’t exist. 3.5 rounded down.
His voice still sounds like a million bucks, but this was a little overproduced. Probably a 3 with some rounding.
Stand out: I Can Never Say Goodbye
I appreciate that this is someone’s favourite so no sense in bringing scathing…but this is absolutely not for me, I like my country to be a bit sad, a bit funny and a bit more threadbare. Too much joy is what I’m saying.
Highlights: Bomb and Shitsville
Bomb with Raekwon being the highlight is nice given how much this seems inspired by Cuban Linx
3 rounded down
Again, not my thing and not one I could find a highlight in. Felt much longer than 40 odd minutes too.
Highlight: Numb, I Hope to Be Around, Slap Pie
I like these guys, with modern take on shoegaze with a really interesting singer.
I like the little incidental songs too like -Fiero GT
I was familiar with the odd couple of songs but had never listened to a full album.
To start with that 70s folk style vocal ruined it, with me almost putting it off after 3 tracks.
But by one of the below highlights, I had grown accustomed to it and was able to mostly phase it out to focus on the musicality which I really enjoyed.
Funnily enough I was thinking what this would be like if Nick Cave was the front man and then he turns up at the end.
Highlights: The BloodBells Chime, Patripassian,
2.5 rounded down but probably 2 x 4 star albums if it was 1 x spoken word album and 1 x instrumental
A real hodge hodge of styles o don’t have much familiarity of, with modern fol, modern Gaelic style stuff and a bit southern gothic popping in.
Not sure I’d actively seek it out again but I would pick up a record if cheap and no skip if they came up on radio
Highlights: The Queens Approach, Isn’t it a Lovely Day
Solid 3
