Audio is super stereo.
Realize I've never intentionally listened to Jazz before, but I could see myself doing so in the future after this.
I like Blue Rondo A la Turk.
Rock Band?
Maybe it's the name of the song or the fact that I've been listening to Parannoul again recently but Into The Light reminds me of Into the Endless Night, especially the distortion on the guitar and the build up toward the end. Not to mention their album art is oddly similar.
Hmmm, Prince still eludes me.
Eerie—not great evening listening if you enjoy feeling relaxed before bed. Some pretty crazy horn work too that almost sounded like a human voice. Don't think I'll ever listen to this again but I imagine someone more jazz-inclined would really appreciate it.
Such a dynamic range of sounds and styles on display here, and certainly one of the longest albums I've listened to, but it didn't all blend together nearly as much as I expected. Overall there's a lot to love and I will definitely be listening to more pumpkins going forward.
Completely obsessed with Elegia. Sounds straight out of a video game / movie (and it turns out Hideo Kojima used it for a MSGV trailer so there you go). Excited to explore more of their discography!
Loved it. A little biased because it's the first post-2000s album I've encountered in this rotation, but I'm just glad to see some dissonant, ethereal, electronic "laptop"-ass music made this list.
Oof. A bit too repetitive—I swear every song is same duh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh dah-na-na-na-na-na-na guitar riff over and over again.
One of those albums that grows on you the more you read about the band that made it, plus I really like the sitar.
There's a Johnny Cash sized hole in my heart and I think Bob Dylan could fill it.
Didn't connect with me as much as I hoped. I like the song Unison.
So into this album. Captivating lyrical storytelling propelled even further by the raw, unfiltered vignettes scattered between each track. Lost One is an easy favorite. Also all the people rating this 1 star are racist misogynists.
While technically impressive at many points, "Don't Tread On Me" was a real turning point in this album for me—nothing makes me lose interest faster than learning that a band prides themselves on being "apolitical."
I like the spoken-word-poetry-esque lyricism. I like how unabashedly political it is. I like how angry they are.
I don’t like that we’re still raging against the same machine after all this time.
There's a haunting, bucolic escapism to this that I can't help but be drawn in by, similar to that of Bon Iver and Novo Amor.
Rating based on how this album made me feel: anxious and stressed out. So not really one I see myself wanting to listen to again.
This sounded more modern than I expected given the time period, which was cool, but still wasn't really for me.
Found myself really grooving to this one.
Is the harmonica ok?
As a notorious skeptic of any genre of music invented before the 2000s, I have to admit there might be something to this Jazz thing.
Groovy!
Could've eked out another star from me if they named themselves after a better mode of transit.
Well-produced, but with a sound that does little to distinguish one song from the next, or from every other indie pop album of the 2010s. Unfortunately nothing really stood out to me here (aside from maybe the last track).
Am I just not that into rock?
As a total sucker for storytelling in music, this album had me captivated nearly all the way through. It does arguably get a bit repetitive towards the end, but there’s a magnetism to his flow that makes it impossible to put down.
Was excited to get my first Beatles album, but everything on here just sorta blended together for me. Rather underwhelming.
This album's sound stood out to me a bit, but not enough for me to rate it higher than your average rock album.
I adore Charli, but pray this isn't the one album of hers somehow chosen for this selection. Like, just the deluxe version of "Girl, so confusing" alone deserves to be on this list, not to mention that entire album, or my beloved How I'm Feeling. I'd even consider her latest album, Music, Fashion, Film, to be a worthy contender. It's not that this album is bad, not by any means; however, despite its bombastic gothic-pop flare, I find Wuthering Heights to be less adventurous than many of Charli's other projects. Her discography is full of ambitious, genre-defining sounds, and I've never felt this was quite at that level. Perhaps in part because its tied to a movie that fell short of my expectations.
Orange Crush was a real nostalgia blast for me (thanks Rock Band), but other than that this album only inspired me slightly more than you're average rock album—which is to say not all that much.
I have nothing against experimental albums that include these kinds of raw, unfiltered studio recordings/demos, but I also believe you need a certain level of artistry and talent to pull it off. This has neither.
The album description was more interesting than the album itself, and it wasn't that interesting.
Idk I wish I liked it more than I do but I don't think it's really the kind of album I'd listen to more than once.
Very little on this record works for me, though I did find myself playing it in the background while I concentrated on another task and it wasn't entirely miserable. Perhaps has legs as programming music, even. The one other piece of praise I can give it is that it's the week of Halloween and this has some spooky sounds in there, so that's something.
Pretty decent, and groovy.
I feel so many of these albums sound the same…
A captivating (and haunting) vocal performance, to say the least.
Californication and Otherside remain classics, and I enjoy how unique the album sounds for the most part, but I just wish more of its songs did it for me.
Began growing on me in the second half, and I enjoyed the vocal performance overall.
Wild World remains catchy as ever!
There’s a certain timidness to this album, an unawareness of just how massive they’d become, and it’s honestly quite charming.
Not for me—too spooky and a bit all over the place.
Once In A Lifetime seems so different from everything else in the album, which is unfortunate because it’s the one I liked the most
I’m not really getting it…