Reviews by angrybizkitz

I was expecting a 35-minute wall of ANGRY MAN YELLING. There was a fair amount of that, but it was understandable. It's not just a torrent of screaming. The drum work is SOLID. The guitar work is there, but it's rough and choppy and distorted, which is exactly what you expect from a punk album. What you don't expect is the frat-boy brattiness of "Six Pack" and "TV Party". You don't expect the juvenile litany of first-world problems. You DON'T expect how YOUNG Henry Rollins sounds. It's approachable punk and had me nodding my head at times. It's still not my style.

My Rating: 4/5

He's doing everything on here opposite of what I hate about The Smiths. He's open and honest, like he's just having a conversation with you, he just happens to be singing. He's not reaching for high notes, not whispering or murmuring or singing with some dumb quaver to cosplay intimacy. He's just there. I enjoyed everything, but liked none of it enough to say I wanted to listen to it again. I wouldn't get mad if someone put it on, but I'm not coming back on my own.

My Rating: 3/5

Amazing album, but the version they have on Spotify is crap. It contains half the songs in the wrong order.

Good album, awesome blues and 70's rock. Some of the songs ramble on a LOT longer than necessary. The signature song isn't until almost the end, which at least makes you go through the entire album before hearing the one you know, and by that point, you might as well finish it out.

My Rating: 3/5

YUS!!!!
Everything about this album rocks. The drum work on "Planet Caravan" drives through. The hits ring true, closing out with "Fairies Wear Boots". Even the lesser known tracks are awesome. How can you rate this lower than a 5? It's a crime. Greatest heavy metal foundational album ever.

My Rating: 5/5

Casablanca Jazz. This feels like a smoky bar with men in tuxedos and women in slinky dresses, smoking French cigarettes and drinking 16-year single malt Scotch. Smooth atmospheric lounge jazz, all the way up until the end with "Sameeda" where the trumpeter loosens his tie and gets a little improvisational. Not bad for a jazz album, and while this may have opened up the artist to the world, I don't think this NEEDED to be heard.

My Rating: 4/5

This is a hot mess of an album. It felt like Sgt. Peppers with about three more sheets of acid and less structure. This is what happens when you try to write the first rock opera on the fly with no money. The story is hard to track through the songs, and if you research the story, it still doesn't make sense. Those of us in this current streaming environment don't have the benefit of having the libretto that was included in the original LP release, so you don't have that to read while you're listening. Dimery, I didn't need to hear this, even though it shaped Tommy and Sgt. Pepper and everything produced by Coheed and Cambria.

My Rating: 2/5, mostly because Dimery exposed us to it.

Not a bad album, but not my thing. The front half is electronic and poppy, the back half a little weirder and more interesting, ditching all the electronica and just using normal instruments. If they hadn't done the switch, it would have been boring.

My Rating: 3/5

This feels like lounge revival. Are we channeling Tom Jones into a country/pop album? The vocalist swings wildly from lounge crooner to an affected falsetto and back. It feels like a parody album, but doesn't commit enough to the bit to actually be funny. This is a weird Nashville art‑lounge experiment that got lucky with UK critics.

Go away, this is annoying.

My Rating: 1/5

It's a 60's pop act. There's not much more to say. They're good, the harmony is beautiful between the singers. They're not groundbreaking.

My rating: 4/5

Wow. I saw the artist, and for some reason thought death metal. Boy was I wrong. This it ambient made grand. Music that lets you just float along and be, not demanding that you understand it or try to decipher it. This was such a strange, beautiful journey.

My Rating: 5/5

Not as moody as other albums by them. It felt like they discovered what a guitar was. Nothing really hooked me. I didn't need to hear this. But I didn't hate it out of the gate.

Not a bad Southern Rock album. Neil works with the band instead of standing out. Each song could be made shorter if they just cut off the tape instead of letting the final chord fade out for A MINUTE while the crowd screams and cheers for the song. Not that this is a live album, but that's what you'd do if you were actually performing. Which works for a concert, but not a studio album.

My Rating: 3/5

A nice little romp of Brit folk rock.
The album cover screams "Welcome to our little slice of life, you can join our wee lass Sandy in the garden for a bit of song."
It opens up very pastoral, and gets a little bop to it on "Autopsy". "A Sailors Life" is a wonderful little dirge about the loss of the sea. In "Percy's Song" you can almost hear the glasses clinking and smell the stout as you get this almost Irish sing along. All in all, a nice album, but not one I'd return to. I wouldn't complain if it came on, though.

My rating: 4/5

I like this a lot for smooth, trip-hoppy background music. It's like warm blanket all around you. But it's all samey. You could have gotten the same thing from Suno or some other AI generator with a prompt like "Give me a funky trip-hop background lo-fi vibe for my Rasta themed coffeeshop". I think you'd get something very similar.

My Rating: 3/5

Pop rock with club sheen. It's very formulaic, engineered for commercial success and radio play, which costs the album its soul. It's "good music", but there's no meaning to it. Nothing controversial, no bite, just a pleasant hologram.

My Rating: 3/5

Dark, dreamy, drippy trip-hop. Head-bopping grooves, occasionally risque lyrics. Good album all the way through, no complaints.

It's good, solid, classic country-tinged pop-rock from the 70's. She's got a two-pack-a-day rasp to her voice. Everyone likes it. I wouldn't turn the channel if it came on the radio, but I'm not going out of my way to play it.

My Rating: 4/5

I get that this might be influential for somebody, but it's hot garbage. I didn't like the way his voice sounded, I didn't like the topic of the music, I didn't like much about it. The guitar work is decent in spots.

Weird, but not bad-weird.

You've got this guy that sounds opera trained singing pop(?) music, but leaning HARD into the vibrato on every song. LIke... dud, just a little less. It's like Christopher Lee singing death metal. Very extra. Then you've got a guy just honking away on that sax. And then you've got Brian Eno, doing what he does best with electronic music, but also throwing in random samples and gunfire and all kinds of weird stuff. It all comes together pretty nicely, giving you a few songs to bop along to, but still being very different. It’s messy, theatrical, and occasionally ridiculous, but it’s also strangely compelling.

My Rating: 4/5