Jul 21 2025
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab
4.5/5
Funky trance
French city pop (aka Pastry Pop lol)
Electro groove
Alt-rock edges
Soft chill vibes
4
Jul 22 2025
Hunky Dory
David Bowie
5/5
- Pleasant, uplifting, sentimental
- Airy and eclectic
- Reflective pop
- Folk-adjacent
- Quiet power
5
Jul 23 2025
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
4.5/5
- Soft, emotional, folksy roots
- Reflective and quiet
- Dreamy, symphonic elements
- Easy uneasy resolution
- Feels like the closing of a chapter
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Jul 24 2025
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
4.5/5
- The origin point of Hard Rock
- Warm and driving
- Electric and urgent
- A record with something to say ... Fuck the War Pigs
- RIP Ozzy
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Jul 25 2025
Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
5/5
- Blues roots in an eclectic mix
- Smooth grooves thru a set of murky spaces
- Smart pop, reflective in abstraction
- "I have never met Napoleon, but I plan to find the time."
- "Those days are gone forever, over a long time ago."
- The Dan does it again!
5
Jul 27 2025
Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
5/5
- Classic, unbeatable Soul, with a capital-s
- Reflective, emotional grooves
- Live crowd adds to the vibe
- Sam was the Man.
5
Jul 28 2025
Sulk
The Associates
4/5
- Unmistakeably 80s, very New Wave
- Space dance
- Angular, synth pop
- Notes of Bowie, Devo, T-Heads, Tears for Fears, The Cure
- A good warm-weather record!
4
Jul 29 2025
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
4/5
- There is an urgency to this record. Most palpable in the first half.
- Driving rock infused with punk angst
- Nu-metal adjacent
- This is hard rock that grew up in Hip Hop Culture.
4
Jul 30 2025
Liege And Lief
Fairport Convention
5/5
- Folksy ... Immediate presence ... Can imagine them playing Newport
- Relaxed at times, urgent at others ... Good flow
- "Dreamy" production ...
- Slides towards jam band territory at times
- A record that feels like it was made by people who really believed in their art to transgress and transform.
5
Aug 02 2025
Fragile
Yes
4.5/5
- Complex Rock / Smart Rock?
- Classically funky
- Contains some lovely moments of Classical melody and stylistics
- Yes has created a very dreamy record that shakes and shimmies at its loudest and twirls softly at its quietest.
- With a good balance all front to back, they never seem to get too clever for their own good.
5
Aug 04 2025
I Against I
Bad Brains
4/5
- Fun riffs with some urgency
- Solid precursor to hardcore punk
- Some screaming, but those moments are fleeting
- Unclear which "i" wins, but it appears to be a win-win scenario.
4
Aug 06 2025
Snivilisation
Orbital
5/5
- Space pop, computer music
- Definitely gets into Trance territory
- Clever modulations; they do groove
- The record captures, as the group name suggests, the atomic or the aeronautic.
- This is a good ambient record for your stacks if you like Aphex.
5
Aug 11 2025
The Sun Rises In The East
Jeru The Damaja
4/5
- Boom Bap!
- Catchy loops and samples
- Lyrical chops fading between conscious and "gangsta" states of mind
- Young kids making art and trying to be Big Dawgs. They take it seriously.
- While it may be a forgettable record, it remains an enjoyable listen.
4
Aug 12 2025
In Utero
Nirvana
5/5
- The essence of the Grunge period concentrated into one final record.
- (Nevermind) The Production: Sounds like it was recorded in a gas-station bathroom. Could've been recorded in a womb. The sounds of being born.
- Catchy riffs, dirtier fuzz, less polish, looser feel, tighter
- They couldn't make another and even if they could have maybe they wouldn't have recaptured the vision. This is lightning in a bottle.
5
Aug 17 2025
The Scream
Siouxsie And The Banshees
5/5
- Atmospheric punk/post-punk
- There is an elegance in the urgency.
- Unrestrained at times but in total control
- Groovy even through it's darker tones
- You love to hear these banshees scream. An impressive debut.
5
Aug 22 2025
Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys
4.5/5
- Lovely little synth-pop record. Added to my Buy list.
- Spacey, light, dark, moody
- This album conceals a quiet energy that flows front to back.
- I felt the first half of the record was strongest, but the back half doesn't feel less composed.
*Hear: "Being Boring" and "How Can You Expect ..."
5
Aug 25 2025
(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
5/5
- Southern Rock in its purest form.
- Boisterous and rowdy, fun
- At times quiet and reflective
- Blues-infused (truly) Good Ol' Boys
- Hell of a debut record. Gimme 5 Stars.
5
Aug 28 2025
Club Classics Vol. One
Soul II Soul
3.5/5
- Smooth and vibey; maybe early Trance
-Solid music for the dancehall or headphones working in the library.
- Full of Soul and that fawnk
- Solid effort and some good work, but this is a tape that is best fit for the background noise to living.
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