Reviews by alien

Dreadful.

Perfect, the first album I got on here that I had been listening to on repeat right before generating it.

It also inspired me to watch Un chien andalou, which was pretty cool, so check that out.

Masterpiece.

I've never really listened to Nick Cave, I don't love this but it does make me want to listen to more of his output. He has a compelling personality and attitude.

Those Swedes sure know how to make good pop songs.

Boomers really cooked with this one.

Millennials really cooked with this one.

This is the first artist I've been assigned that I haven't listened to at all before.

I quite like artists like Lucinda Williams and Tracy Chapman, or Adrianne Lenker, whose harmonies with Buck Meek sound a lot like Gillian Welch and David Rawlings here. I also love prolonged retellings of events like the Titanic sinking or the JFK assassination, interspersed with 20th century American musical history, i.e. Bob Dylan's "Tempest" and "Murder Most Foul".

However, I found this album a little uninspired and plodding. I'm not American nor particularly steeped in country music, but my impression is that sonically and in terms of its clichéd references to Americana, it's not too distinct from a lot of mass produced country dross.

Seven minutes into the final song, "I Dream A Highway", I'm beginning to doubt what I just wrote. I'll give credit for giving this song room to breathe, it's a great closer. Maybe the album would have flowed better for me with a few more energetic songs, bookended by the lovely languid "I Dream A Highway".

Rikki>Night By Night>Any Major Dude is an amazing opening run of songs, it drops off slightly but it's still great.

I just don't like Paul Simon.