2025-09-17: I came to this album lacking sleep. I spent the first couple of songs trying to get into it but I did not manage to do so. Perhaps I am not much into blues(?)-like music, but I found the style somewhat repetitive and felt that the guitar solos dragged on. “Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad” did get my attention (though I didn't quite like the change of pace of the chorus), but half way through I was distracted and hoping for the album to end. Hearing Clapton's voice and ”Layla” felt nostalgic, but for the time being I don't feel compelled to come back. In a scale of 1 to 5, at the very beginning I hoped to give it a 4 but at the end I was thinking more in the lines of a 2.
2025-09-18: Listened to lacking sleep, after a cold shower. It reminded me of the sounds of my youth: at times it resonated with me so, though in a distant fashion. The vocals were nice sounding, though at the end I felt s little tired of them. I felt like the lyrics came in short bursts, somehow lacking fluidity, but I would like to go through them once more paying a little more attention. There were oddities in how some tracks sounded, such as the way the fullness of the sound came in and out in “Junkhead” (I specially noticed in the second half), but I don't know if they were intentional, or particular to Spotify's encoding of the supposed remastered version of the album (I initially replayed parts thinking that my sound system or my hearing might be failing me). I rate it above a 3, though I would have to give it another chance to place it a a solid 4 or above.
2025-09-18: A bit better rested than yesterday, physically worn out, listened to this during dinner after a shower. I enjoyed going through the album, found variety in the songs, was pleased by the singer's voice, felt like dancing around while sitting. I feel like the album is a solid 4, perhaps a touch above; and since I am feeling like going through it once more, I'll up the score a touch.
2025-09-19: The orchestra-like arrangements produced full music, the tunes seemed varied in nature … However, for some reason I didn't get quite hooked to the album. The voices felt muffled at times, others I I felt saturated by the music … Whatever the reason, though I think I am somehow doing this work a disservice by not giving it at least a 4, I have to leave it a step lower this time.
2025-09-21: Happy-sounding music easy to get into in a short-duration form factor. I find it easy to give the album a 4, and I'll up it up a notch for fandom's sake, and because it might be worth it.
2025-09-21: I think I liked it and I thought that I would give it a 4 or a 5 but the reasons escape me. I slept well and was more conductive to enjoying music than other days, but I imagine I liked the style in general.
2025-09-23: I listened to this album distractedly at night. The music felt easygoing and I think it helped me wind down somewhat. However, I did find the song length made them a little repetitive, at least when I tried listening a little more attentively at the beginning. Perhaps in a more optimistic day I might have raised the score to a 4.
2025-09-24: Songs of manageable length, nice music with enough variety, … I might have given it a 5 on a better day.
2025-10-05: I really enjoyed listening to this album. Was I in a good listening mood, or is there more to it? Whatever the case, it is a top score for enjoyment to me today.
2025-10-05: Another dose of absolute enjoyment after the previous albums. Am I that volatile in my listening experience?
2025-10-07: Listening to the funky first tracks I feel atrophied, unable to heed the music's call to loosen up. Most of the album I felt trapped between its potential to loosen me up into a 5 experience and the 3 feelings I have after the wear out of the ups and downs of today. The soothing power of the chill last track was welcome.
2025-10-07: What I felt as a lack of musical density and simplicity made me question whether I was misguided about giving this a high score, but damn if that wasn't just the kind of soothingly stimulating music that I needed. Having had a calming shower before and starting the listening session in front of a scrumptious dinner probably helped the the experience. I am looking forward to see if it can bring me other nice trances like today's.
2025-10-08: I listened to it with company, so I might have been less attentive and at the same time more positive due to the social interaction. At first I found the album soothing and captivating, enjoying how it felt as if it were driving home the value of simplicity and easygoingness (I have not listened much to this type of music). Once finished, some of the good feelings stayed, but it did leave me with an aftertaste of repetitiveness that I might have started feeling halfway through. Since it paired well with the setting I will be positive about it, but I am not sure how it will hold when listening to it more times.
2025-10-15: I made a mistake listening to this album sore and tired: I spent quite a bit of time thinking that I should stop, take a shower and get something to eat and drink, and then get back to it; but I didn't. Some songs felt a little too long or perhaps repetitive, but even so I wasn't quite wishing them to end. Familiarity and nostalgia with the type of music upped the score, which might have been higher if my head had been in a better place … or maybe, just maybe, lower if it hadn't been upped by echoes of the past.
2025-10-15: I am not used to this type of music and I have some bias against it. I enjoyed the second half better, perhaps because of the content or because I turned the volume down (it was getting late). I wasn't attentive to the lyrics, so if that's part of the appeal, I was missing out on it. I feel the cadence that rapping adds to music to be limited, but probably this is true of other kinds of music that I am more keen about.
2025-10-16: I have half skipped through the album on a subpar setting. Today I have found some of the groove and fun I felt on the latter tracks on the first ones. I still feel that rapping isn't something that I will have time stomaching and that will drag down this kind of music for extended/focused listening. However the fun/delight for which I have upped the score in previous albums is somewhere in there, so I won't rate it as a meh this time.
2025-10-17: I enjoyed listening to this album, though I was in company so I could not listen to it wholly without interruption. The voice was very nice to listen to and I felt enough variety in the tracks to offset the potential monotony I feared I could have found in the style of music. I'm looking forward to seeing if the top score I am giving the album holds the next times I listen to it.
2025-10-24: I listened to it in company and I was a little too preoccupied with the other person's reactions to get into the album (and talking quite a bit and attending a couple of matters in between didn't help). Also, the pauses in the music in the first song (“Supervixen”) really jarred me, and for some reason I felt as if the volume in one of the tracks dropped compared to the previous one (perhaps in “As Heaven is Wide”), and I felt it might be a strange mastering choice at the same time I wondered if I had previously adjusted the volume without noticing or if my would system was going bonkers.
2025-10-26: I listened to the album again in better circumstances, through there were a couple of interruptions and I was quite tired. I didn't get as upset about the silences in the first song but I'm still not too sure about them. This time I felt a discrepancy of volume in another song but the sound levels reported by my watch remained very similar, so I think it is just a bit of sinus congestion and me overthinking it. I think this is an album I would like to come back to often; maybe I should give it a top score, but I'll leave that for the next time; or maybe not and I'll be having to take it down a notch.
