1001 Albums Summary

For a start the title track has one of the best guitar solos ever written. That said I had never listened to the album as a whole, but the funny thing is the music is so entrenched in the world it was all completely familiar. It’s a beautiful slice of Americana. The guitar tones are like honey, and the drum production is a dry as the dessert. The band produce fantastic performances across the whole record. Unfortunately the album doesn’t finish as strong as it starts. The meandering The Last Resort doesn’t feel as well constructed as the rest of the songs, and it takes a bit of the shine off, after an otherwise fantastic record.

I only ever heard the singles from Garbage as it didn’t really draw me in as a kid. It’s good, but it never scratched the itch for me. Still, a nice listen and brought back some 90s memories.

There’s something really familiar about this record, it may well have been in the collection of an old housemate, but I don’t have any specific memory of listening to it. Anyway, this is some high quality 90s IDM, and it’s right up my street. Super complex drum patterns with droning sitars, soaring strings and wandering flutes, as well as a lot of jungle and dub influence. It’s as if Goldie and Squarepusher had an Indian baby. I love that the tracks have so much time to breathe and evolve, there is something cinematic about it. This is what I’d have classed as a 5am album back in my partying days, mellow but with enough action to keep heads nodding and bodies moving. The album also builds and flows very nicely, it’s not top loaded at all and I found I got more and more involved as it went on. Absolutely solid 90s electronica, interesting till then very end, what a find!