Reviews by ajef

This shit is wild

Alright as background music

Impressive and varied debut album. Ends up a bit of a mixed bag but still a nice listen

It’s a Christmas album

Liked the overall sound of this album, but it is a bit bloated and self-indulgent.

Somehow this album doesn’t really get boring over its 2+ hour runtime. Part of that is the fact it’s actually 2 albums combined, but also it’s just insanely inventive and unique. Speakerboxxx is a really solid hip hop album with some amazing instrumentation. The Love Below is hard to define and kinda fucking weird, but enjoyable. Definitely the less consistent of the 2 but has the best single tracks. Hey Ya is probably up there with my all time fave songs.

Gonna have to agree with the majority of reviews and say this sounds a lot like stevie wonder. But that’s never a bad thing and I think it’s a much more maximalist approach. Also didgeridoo.

How’s your debut album just gonna be a bunch of mid covers. The worst part is that the only original song was my favourite one.

Very fun listen, even better than the last one, it is a bit short thought with only 2 songs on the original release.

Really enjoyed this album, feels like a good mix of many different early 70s sounds. Cosmic Dancer and Monolith were definite standouts for me. Both had some amazing guitar effects. If it was a bit more consistent I would give this a 5/5.

Love me some microtones but this is quite repetitive.

Just such an iconic sound. No wonder they were my favourite band when I was 10.

Feel bad giving this a 1/5 but it honestly bored me to death. Maybe would be better if I was high or something.

The guitar playing on this is so captivating. It’s both intricate and sparse, neat and rough around the edges. Also the use of unorthodox tunings gives it an addictive eerie vibe.

An album of hits and one awful miss (The girl is mine)

Was actually kinda nice but way too long. Definitely the first Algerian artist I’ve ever listened to. I never thought I’d ever get to hear imagine sung in Arabic.

Absolutely GOATED album.
Such a vibrant mix of genres and sounds and so many weird but catchy songs.
So many standout tracks but have to mention ‘Of Moons, Birds and Monsters’ as they’ve somehow crammed like 5 songs in 5 mins with that one.

No necessarily a bad album, but it left no lasting impression at all

I’m sure this is the exact intention but this album sounds like it was written for a musical and I don’t like that.

cool sound, a genre I should listen to more