Reviews by avoidperil

Not really my jam but the first few songs are really good. I'm just not a punk kid, so I don't see it getting too many more spins for me.

I'm not enough ecstacy for this trip. Nothing here connected with me. They really need to step it up.

Really well played and recorded, and to think this was happening during new wave and post-disco. This must have been a breath of fresh air. It's oddly charming, unpredictable. House of Fun and Blue Skin Beast are absolutely wonderful.

Like most Rolling Stones albums there's really nothing going on here to grip me. It's very standard blues rock. Only good song is Wild Horses.

A really inconsistent album really. America and Mrs Robinson are all-timers but a lot of this feels like poorly hashed out concepts and weird asides. There aren't many songs here worth considering. But for the good songs, it works.

The first track is fine, Love Vigilantes, mostly because I think of the Iron and Wine cover which is better. The rest of the album the vocal is so off key it's genuinely hard to listen to.

I just don't think Madonna has a good voice, or one strong enough to be layered over songs as produced as these. She's the weakest instrument in the room and the instruments aren't great on this in the first place.

Fun times, gun times. I'm going to throw this a bone because it's really well sung, well recorded, and the kind of wonderful music it's a joy to come across.

It was fine for what it was. I have so much other stuff to listen to right now, I can't be bothered spinning it again. Meh?

This feels inspired and yet so uninspired. Most of these aren't really songs, at least not ones I'd want to listen to more than once. Total miss from the judging panel here. Finished out of sheer stubborness.

Other than the two singles, this is some really middling to cringe-worthy early rock music. Some of those rhymes are really clumsy.

A supremely lovely and gorgeous album. The Ocean and the opening track are incredible. I could leave a few others.

This is what I thought punk music was. But grunge is just punkier punk I guess. It bounces off me. I don't hate it but I just don't have an interest in it.

An album I've tried to get into a few times, but isn't really my scene. I like moments on this one, and maybe one day it will hit home with me, but for now it's a solid 8/10 and deserving a revisit.

An incredible collection of sounds. Almost an instrumental album in the way the lyrics are purposely obscured. But oh what she does with her voice feels incredible. Goosebumps and shivers.

Someone went to a lot of effort to make this intricate with a huge mess of tracks, both synth and orchestral. There are full orchestra sections on this thing. And I find myself wondering - why? None of what is being portrayed is earning the orchestration. Also this album LOVES reusing the same chords/melodies/intervals/sections - more than just leitmotifs. It gets cloying.

It's major depressive disorder in album format.

Like a warm hug in song format. His voice is smooth, the songs simple, until they're not simple - and you realise you're listening to a blueprint for folk.

It's jarring to have an album that gives instructions on how to listen to it and yet I don't have the music theory to back it up. Not a huge fan of solo sitar. More a curiosity than an appealing listen to me.

The sound of my childhood. It still holds up.