It feels like very generic Jazz, I couldn't pick it out of a lineup of other jazz I've heard. It felt like a movie soundtrack to me. I fully respect that this opinion is probably based on inexperience with the genre, and potentially the result of modern jazz coming from this as a primary influence.
It reminds me of the same vibe as some of the tubular bells, lots of sweeping tracks that blend into each other. Didn't enjoy the vocal tracks as much (mothers daughter) because then it feels like it goes further towards traditional rock that I don't enjoy as much. It legit just makes me want to listen to tubular bells again.
I don't think its a 5* but its could definitely be something I add again to a background playlist in its entirely in order, 4*?
Message in a bottle is a classic and good, but Bring on the Night is actually my fave. There are some misses on the album, with some 5s (messgae, bring on, contact) and some 2s (its alright, on any other day, beds too big)
Its just kinda fun, first one of the set I would put on as more than passive listening. Whole album is just so chill
The end of All about love is odd. I think if I added this to a playlist I'd skip it, but its kinda cool, just a weird intermission from the cohesive vibes of the rest of the album
Optimistic is probably the album highlight, a little bit repetitive but i'd rate it pretty good
really not a fan of national anthem, even more repetitve
Idioteque sounds like your coworker with headphones on who thinks they're singing in tune with their music but nobody else can hear it.
It does slightly do the thing i like in albums where a song blends into the start of the next, but it doesnt feel like pink flloyd or anything where it transfers, it feels more like a dj is just fading one down and the next up. I'm not getting a massively cohesive progression through the album, or story or anything that I have come to expect from this era of rock. What this means for my listening habits is its really hard to just chuck a highlight track into a playlist because then it starts with the resolution of the previous track, and ends with the start of the next which will then just get cut off by shuffle.
I'm giving it a 2, its probably actually a 3.5ish but I'm lowballing it because I had higher expectations
I like this much better than radioheads experimental rock. It didnt have the transition and flow into a full album like pink floyd but it did seem to have a bit of deeper thought into its themes. I like a song where I catch some of the lyrics, think "thats a weird thing to say" and I will go look them up and try and find the artists intent. Some of this album does seem to just be edgy arts student for little reason (one hundred years), but theres a good chunk where I can get on board with the emotions behind the lyrics.
Its fine. It sounds like background music from heartbeat a little bit. I liked kelly's blues, I didnt like bury me deep. Not a fan of lyrics theyre just "oh woman pretty we took a drive blah blah". The rest of the album was listened to in background and I took very little in.
Getting past the first two tracks it is closer to what I like. This is the right side of interesting but listenable that stuff like neutral milk hotel is on.
A minority of the tracks are toeing the wrong side of the line for me, similar to other experimental genre breaking albums
Ok heads will roll just rocks.
I kinda like skeletons, its a bit of a pace change, but reminds me of "of monster and men" songs, and i love them. I just checked, turns out they covered them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvgcBYAyTyk I love this band, and song.
I like hysteric.
I think in spite of a couple of 3/5s on the album, the couple of 6/5's songs on it gives this my first 5
