Unique album, Ok, not much theme to it, some toe tappers. I liked the vibes of “in my mind”. Very Simon & Garfunkel meets vampire weekend song.
I like the ambient easy listening and eclectic inspirations he drew from. I’ll never listen to it again. Unless i decide to get a dangly cross ear piercing and choose to live the rest of my life in 90s dance album aesthetics. Not my favorite but didn’t feel like a waste of a listen either. I did save barber’s adagio of strings from his other album when I checked out his Spotify profile. This was better than firehose album so I wish I rated that a 2 as well.
I “respect” this album. Didn’t get anything new from it really. Weird how there’s like 3 songs that are on the album twice. Respect IS the album, everything else is in its shadow, except a change is gonna come which has such power in its lyrics, which is beautiful. I appreciate the historical significance and the flawlessness in her voice, but the album as a whole is dated and boring. Somehow falls short of timeless, but not far behind I guess. And also it’s low key depressing, lots of toxic love vibes. The album title is giving manipulator. I find it hard to separate the art from the artist sometimes. Bet Aretha was a rebel-rousing honeytrap diva in her day. God bless
Super duper chill. It’s like if jet set radio was a video game about chillin and Graffiti art instead of roller blading and graffiti art. This was a fantastic background music album. Some grooves, some head boppers, but it never ever dropped out of or exceeded the chill zone. Wasn’t too ambient, nor too distracting. Perfect balance between directly engaging and enabling a flow state throughout the day. I saved it on Spotify. Being very stingy with my 4s and 5s but this almost got a 4.
Already have 4 of these songs saved to my liked songs, very much in my bag. She really made jazz different, rejuvenated, unique, and toxic. Her lyrics are interesting and creative, but kinda piss me off. Very contrived I like bad boys and am very mentally disturbed vibes. Will I ever find art that is balanced in its pain or is the best art really the deepest darkest stuff that is tortured and depressing at the core of it…. Despite my personal criticisms, i think my criteria for a 4 star or 5 star album is that it must be a full listen thru that I truly enjoyed, rather than cuz it’s part of the discipline and homework of this album project (which is awesome in its own right to have to have discipline in my music consumption.) I digress. Definitely a 4 star album in that sense for me. Perhaps 5 stars is I could listen all the way thru many times. I’d get tired of this after one full listen thru and wanna put it down for a while, til I inevitably come back. very happy to have listened thru this entire thing. I just wish Half Time was on this album, my fav Amy Winehouse song. If you’re reading this, peep it, worth it. RIP Amy you would have loved vapes.
I’m Jewish so no hard feelings but ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, there’s tons of great refreshed Christmas music (e.g. This Christmas - Donny Hathaway) out there. all of these songs are the rudimentary boring classic versions but hey I get it if that’s your thing. Very outside my purview.
So up my alley you’d think it’s a dumpster but this album is anything but garbage. Quintessential funk that makes my face look like I just smelled a dry-aged fart the entire listen. God I love P-funk. I will say, 40% of this album is derivative of other songs on the album, however that to me is a positive. I can’t think of a better funk album so it gets my 5. Wish I could rate to the first decimal cuz it would def get like a 4.6 not a 5.0 but maybe I’ll just start putting the decimal in my descriptions. Anyways Godddd it’s so glorpy 😩
Good god what a snooze fest! They
Should use this album as the soundtrack to a documentary about napping. Or like for a Juno remake where they make it even sadder and more awkward and less funny. I had to skip thru most of the songs mid-song, I could not stand this whatsoever, takes a lot to get me to love folk music. positive notes 1) I actually enjoy his mildly annoying voice 2) Tit Smoking in the Temple of Artisian Mimicry is a pretentiously fun name for a song and the guitar in it was interesting to hear but won’t ever come back to that song either 3) cool album cover. His guitar playing is generally impressive yet not interesting. The rest of this album was dogwater. For me, generally, Great lyrics come after pulling me in musically and I just couldn’t get pulled in. I bet the lyrics are beautiful poetry that would have been more interesting as spoken word, but I can’t be sure because I had to protect my sanity by skipping most of it. 0.8 stars. ZZZZZZZZZZ
Soooo I did some digging cuz I loved how violent and in your face this music was. So awesomely punk. But it was so drone-y and too much grr not enough lalala, compared to Songs About Fucking which I think is a better album than Atomizer. Perhaps the two albums are like yin and yang and I just happen to like yang more than yin. Just go listen to that instead. All that said, punk is not my fav genre so 2.9 stars which is like a 4 adjusted to my overall music taste.
