Is it mean of me to think his voice sucks?

Felt very inspired then very critical and now I am here

Eh. I'm sure there's another life where I would have felt this more.

Timeless. Little repetitive, but short and sweet and timeless.

I fell asleep

Ages well over the course of the album

Would give 3.5 stars if possible

Favorite one so far

Easy

Surprised I enjoyed this more than I thought I would

You know what? This rocks

This music fucks

I didn't think I'd ever actually reach for the one star button doing this

Feels like asking someone to eat Oregon Trail food and rate it

Surprisingly underwhelmed

M m m m miiiiid

Wish I could 4.5 this but who cares! Life is too short to hate

Me when I fw Limp Bizkit now

First song bangs but tbh the rest struck me as a bunch of whiny screeching. Maybe I'm missing something #imightbeabitch

Way groovier than anticipated

They thought "experimental music" meant experimenting with being ass lol Actually really enjoyed a song or two, but a broken clock is right twice a day and we can’t give it credit for that

2.5 stars really, but it’s cool to think that this is what they’re sound was at the very beginning

Short, to the point. Feels hard for me to be too critical

Is it mean of me to think his voice sucks?

Long but exceptional at every turn

Dangerously lit

Thank goodness music evolves

Sneaky goat

Mildly pleasantly surprised

I usually award threes as a result of distance from/apathy for the work, but this is an involved rating for me. I love the flow. I love the narrative arc, the persona, the feelings he’s tapping into. But I can’t help feeling like some of the music itself is just bad—scraping at my ears or something. I wish the star system better reflected how invested I am in the ratings I give.

Hate to hate but … (jk I love to hate)

Really down for whatever that was

Really not my speed, but something undeniably enchanting about the whole thing. Feel like I just spent a couple hours with a stranger I met at a gas station of the 210 divining insights from lines in the desert sand.

The streak of perfectly okay albums is alive and well

What the hell, sure

Capital p Pipes

Utterly soulless. So devoid of soul that listening evokes a mild terror, even

Ohhhhhh how my heart has been stolen

Feels like a couple of my recent albums have toed the line between 3 and 4 stars for me, and every time I’ve ultimately leaned toward 4. I think my hesitation has to do with re-listen value; save for homesick alien there’s very little I’d sample from this album a la carte. But I have also an unequivocal sense I’m listening to something really deliberate and polished, a project more expansive than mere metrics like re-listen value can grasp. Maybe I’m talking about production, or maybe I’m talking about soul—whatever it is, it pushes this inexplicably into higher-star territory.

Sympathetic to this brand of strange

Just not my thing

In a bad mood rn

Think it's just perfectly pleasant

Felt very inspired then very critical and now I am here

No notes

Maybe I was just in a wistful mood but this got me feeling some kinda way

I get the comments about its overly silky smooth feel, but this really is quite enjoyable to listen to

I’m skeptical of anyone who calls this album a masterpiece, but so too am I skeptical of anyone who decries it as pointless whining. It sits very powerfully in between (although leaning masterpiece) and perfectly epitomizes what I love about Radiohead—fleeting pockets of brilliance, tucked in the folds of a much larger and more distressing sound. Uncomfortable that may be, is it not the truest reflection of our daily toils and rarer triumphs?

Fuck it what the hell this is great it’s all great it’s good feed me more mmhmm

I don't know if it was a coincidence this album arrived the day after Brian Wilson's death, or maybe 1001 pulled some strings. Either way, after listening to this and learning more about Wilson I felt I saw The Beach Boys as they are for the very first time--not just a golden, saccharine vision of California but the oh so complex people elegizing it. This album is strangely intense, wistful; it lands on the ears as good vibes and simultaneously betrays a much deeper current of feeling. Thanks, Brian, for everything you did.

This is so fucking good

I thought all of the songs here were beautiful, but this is still a really generous 3 - the timbre of Cohen's voice just doesn't sit right with me

good background music

Since Odelay I’ve been dreading the next Beck album, but I must say I was pleasantly surprised by this. Obviously a little wonky but not in the grating, inaccessible way I was expecting