I cant say i was giving it my full attention but glad to have listened - enjoyed the opening and closing tracks, Sunday especially made my put down my book to actually write something about the album i think im learning i love a woodwind but overall felt like easy but fairly forgettable listening.
Now thats sounds! Megadeath lucky i listened to that first or they mightve been worse off (are they even in the same genre (from the green or from the black)) anyway great stuff
Yea this is some interesting stuff, love the idea of saying your band name 17 times in the opening track. Also funny bone is so menacing but you must also admit quite funny. I think i’d like to give this a 3.5 so let’s round up - defs some fun stuff in there and some absolutely classics c’est as they say ‘chic’
I’d like to sit in a dark room and listen to this loud enough that it rattles my bones.
Australia mention
Admittedly got 3/4 way through but will keep listening and so far big fan of the beats sometimes the amounts/scan of lyrics was jarring but that seems like a me problem
Feels like it’ll need some listens but defs enjoyed first run through - will go into work rotation. Some bit sounded like bridgerton versions of songs id never heard but idk if thats a bad thing? Great ebbs and flows.
Hard to tell if i this is a great album cause its a classic or if its a classic coz its a great album but i guess the end result is the same - great stuff makes me feel things makes me think things makes me want to play the harmonica.
Enjoyed the production a lot and feel like there were a few songs that stood out (if you only knew i reckon) but not sure i was captured by the whole thing? Couple too many rhymes that felt like reaching for a turn of phrase because someone thought to put paracetamol in the line before. Overall p fun though!
As background music particularly for existing in spaces where noone knows you i gotta admit this is kinda incredible (keen for your review emily assuming you listened somewhere over the oceans). If i listen to what this man is trying to say to me it sounds like a school of rock parody i fear his messages only detract from this experience - also if i stop to think about the music/vibe for a minute its diminishing returns but look for cultivating an almost entirely false narrative of how one might be perceived it really works - oh no the man has started speaking again thats another star from you bucko
It feels a bit like i was being challenged to not like this album, and i guess in some ways that succeeded. I don’t know that there were any songs i really liked but there were certainly parts that struck me. Think i need to listen again with full attention but then! I don’t know if i want to! Hard to say. Interested to see what others thought….
Enjoyed this a lot, not the best to run to especially when i realised the songs were not actually 8 minutes each but the return of this lady for the last 500 metres was strong.
Just not gripping me? Again i think unjustly exposed to plane conditions but i keep turning this up hoping that volume = interest* and turning it up but its just more sound and not in a good/interesting/challenging way
Re: heartland - Im finding this w books a bit but sometimes when things feel Too american they just don’t quite jive. Like i know that place ive seen him but he’s not mine nor does he speak to me
Immediately though i am enjoying angels of deception more - sorry for the live commentary but theres little else to do…
I’d written something more disparaging but honestly i quite liked the last track, she won me round (a bit)
*holy moly guys did you know if you accidentally write e= the notes app starts doing some crazy shit
The thing is i really like country i think so the vibe of the album was conceptually tops and pretty polly in particular really scratched an itch but then overall the dissonance felt a bit much so maybe i don’t like country?? Again i fear plane listening is a disadvantage but i felt like i was desperate at times for a properly resolved cord. Still enjoyed it, would listen again defs to key songs in a terrestrial environment but overall good but hard?
First album to get a relisten so far, i think I wavered between absolutely loving it and then kinda fading out but the general vibieness is top tier and particularly the end of the album stood out. Sometimes the sound quality got a bit gristly but i genuinely couldn't tell if that was intentional or my headphones - not my favourite musical texture if that is a feature and apologies to Mr Kiwanuka if it’s not. The production really stands out and any song that showcased that was a standout - with enough of said songs that i reckon this is going in the rotation. Also just exciting to have something from the last 10 years!
I loved this a lot - felt really familiar at points and then at others genuinely felt like i was hearing new noises fresh of the presses curtesy of Mr Maal. Great stuff!
I really do not enjoy this type of singing - it’s not bad but just that kind of forced air so every line sounds like the singer is running out of breath with desperation. Made the album pretty hard listening tbh but otherwise musically inoffensive but equally not all that gripping soz
Can’t help but seperate the knowledge of how young Lorde was when writing this from the experience of listening to it. I might have just forgotten the style of 2017 but this feels a bit overwritten for me in a way that makes a lot of sense for a 20 year old - still enjoyable but not a writing style that resonates with me all that much. Some highlights though for sure i really liked Sober II in particular and overall made me want to listen to more of Lorde’s new stuff
Really enjoyed this more than i thought i would from the initial song tbh. The structure of the songs as well as the songs themselves were funny and i loved the instrumental tracks. Something something illustrated book about birds
Enjoyable but not overly memorable / nothing that made me stop what i was doing to really listen to the song. Feels like something that was once really notable for what it was doing but has since been made unremarkable by the extent of what it has inspired (idk) and not enough of my genre for me to really appreciate what makes it stand out.
Felt mixed about this one at points, excellent background music when doing other things, but when it was my sole focus i started having flashbacks to the 40 minute continuous jazz piano performance i once sat through during which i oscillated between trying as hard as i could to manifest pyrokinesis in order to trigger a fire alarm and accepting my death and new home in jazz based purgatory.
That said i think there is nothing more magical than hearing a room full of voices singing together.
What fun! The best songs were tops the other songs were also there. Idk maybe i thought it would be a bit more than it was but still v enjoyable.
The only times i really noticed this album were when it finished (so short!) and when i thought 8:05 was going to be a v interesting cover of Edelweiss but alas. Not bad by any means but not really enough of anything to push it past pretty good.
I loved every second of this -* glad i waited until it could have my full attention. Out of this world 😀
*ai can pry the em dash from my cold dead hands
Pretty good, loved early songs the middle lost me a bit but also hard to tell what was thieves in comparison ti parliament. Can’t wait for Daine’s review
Yea i liked this more than infected for sure. I really enjoy the sound of his voice which has not been true for many of these albums but i wouldnt say this has stood out massively beyond that. I’m interested coz when i told Is the album she said she loved the the but not these songs in particular but now im wondering what secret trove of great the the songs are out there. Maybe i will investigate but i’m already late on this review so odds are i will not. Anyway things to ponder…
Hmmmm i really didn’t think i was enjoying this at the start there’s a genre that just sounds like school of rock music that i have not been able to take seriously but i’ll admit i was grooving by the end (does one groove to iron maiden?). Some of the guitar solos were pretty mental as well.
Really loved this, idk why but creedence clearwater revival really only existed in my mind as the punchline to a joke i only kind of understood but turns out! They’ve done great stuff!! Excited to listen to more of this album and creedence and his clearwaters generally.
Hey so turns out Dusty Springfield might be the greatest artist of all time, who knew?
Parts of this sounded like musical theatre in kind of a crazy way but when the guitars got going it was great stuff. Disappointed to have not liked open letter (to a landlord) as much as id hoped but a great sentiment fuck those guys.
This feels so close to something great but i think my reaction is worse for the fact that it’s not quite there. It all just feels a little bit thin and to be honest i was more interested in the wikipedia page than the actual album. Also maybe im just forcing myself to have a stronger reaction to not give another 3? Who’s to say.
There’s something powerful about this. I gotta rewatch angel.
Ngl frankie was a hard listen, everything else i was kinda vibing with and look it absolutely achieved what it set out to do so you can’t fault it for that. I also do maybe not enjoy but appreciate when a song uses it’s whole production to evoke something even if that something is that picture of the guy visibly repulsed by whatever is in his headphones. I wasn’t repulsed by anything but did feel myself honestly pulling away from the sounds at points. Anyway this has been a ramble what an interesting and provocative album i dont know that i ever want to listen to it again hmmm
What a beautiful voice and also some other wild stuff happening. Loved mouth’s cradle and also generally the way she really makes you Hear That Mic.
I accidentally saw a couple of the reviews of this pre listening as is the perils of getting to an album late which i guess didn’t sway me at all just kinda tempered the way i listened to it. Lessons! Anyway all the bits of this that were instrument generated i was pretty into esp the woodwinds (maybe????) but nothing about the lyrics or vocals grabbed me. Except admittedly opening a song with ‘this song is over’ which is funny but i honestly couldnt tell if he was in on the joke.
Ok journey with this album has been:
1) god thats some good sounds
2) hmm these sounds are pretty similar to the earlier ones idk
3) i’m an idiot these are great and beautiful new sounds Gemma get it together
Really loved king of kings and beautiful rain in particular. Not such a fan of how long and hello my baby but overall just a pretty beautiful record.
I fear i didnt set dance mania up for success listening to it on the train to work but still pretty fun! The trumpets at the start i wasnt a huge fan of and i wasnt differentiating heaps between the songs but i reckon i mostly came round by the end.
Not my fave though i think i liked not the one, hard to say though. Just didnt feel like it did anything all that interesting although as i say that it appears there is 6 minutes of silence at the end of the last song… what’s going on here do we think is this supposed to be a part of it? Intriguing
More music should consist of ominous soundscapes.
In many ways i am a prude and this wa a punish. Humpty dance was pretty fun but in part just as something recognisable. It went downhill from there and it was a long descent.
Feels like the vocals arent really living up to the background in this, still enjoyable enough easy listening but got a bit samey over the course of the album. Love the brass in glasshouse tho i’d written a harsher review before they chirped up.
Country is such a good genre i have no idea if this is a good version of it but man its enjoyable to listen to.
Idk that much about George Harrison as a solo artist (or as a beatle honestly) but this was generally enjoyable. I always get nervous in these that im gonna post a 3/5 pretty good! Review and then it’ll turn out to be the greatest album of all time or something but only one way to find out…
What a lovely Thursday evening ❤️
Parts of this slightly underwhelmed but the parts that didn’t absolutely made up for it
Feels spiritually Australian
Now this is some copaganda i can get behind. Big fan of the vibe of this, didn’t necessarily stop me in my tracks but would defs listen again.
Not my fave, i don’t have any nostalgia for this kind of music and listening fresh it’s not doing anything super interesting imo. Not bad but thats kinda all there is to say.
Structure of this was so interesting i wanted the songs to be slightly moreso but its falling on the 4 side of 3.5
That was not what i expected except that it sounds exactly like what youd think a randy newman album would sounds like were you to know who he was. I loved it.
This was fun but hasnt left enough of an impression for me to have either reviewed immediately after listening or have thought enough about it since to have really anything to say. The genre is intriguing it always sounds like a joke and maybe it is?
Flynn made some compelling points about this but i think it still boils down to i would expect an MJ album to demand more of my attention. That said its still pretty incredible what he could do.
I couldnt decide if i liked this as much as i thought i would before it started, but it was certainly more than i did when the first proper song started and i couldnt hear anything and had no idea what was going on. Really liked the vibes of some songs but couldn't for the life of me tell you which ones.
Man what a ride! Absolutely loved this, every album should feature The Emcee.
This didn’t grab me that much but i also think it shouldnt be penalised for how boring my day is. Keen to listen to this again perhaps on a sunny afternoon with a bevy and nary a care in the world but let’s see if i remember should that situation occur.
