Reviews by daniel

This album is absolutely amazing – with all its letters. The first track is mind-blowing, so great and diverse, so perfect. The rest are also great, even though some songs are not "that" fantastic. But, to be fair, the level of greatness in this album is so high that it is impossible for some songs to not be compared with others. I mean, it's such a wonderful, flawless record. I love this one, for sure!

This album is, actually, good. I've liked listening to it, but I don't know how to feel about it. The overall is not as impressive as how it starts. It kicks off with great songs and a great production, so full of different sounds and... It's something that is all over the album, but at some point I got bored of it. Some songs are very repetitive, others are quite nice. Some had really interesting sounds, others are just not that interesting, for sure. So, I find myself stuck in the middle, with no clear opinion. So, I like it, but not at the extent to really think I would listen to it again in the next few months. Maybe in a year I will have a clearer opinion... or not!

I've liked this album a lot. It's so enjoyable and addictive. The songs are pretty good, all of them, and, even if there is not much variety, what is there is fantastic. So, for me, it's a solid nine.

This album is actually pretty good. It has great songs (even if others are not that much), but overall it's a fantastic album, very cohesive and with very interesting sounds. I enjoyed it a lot.

Oh my... What's that noise? For sure! At least it's not "that" noise I listened to yesterday, Lightning Bolt's Wonderful Rainbow, but this album is not good at all. At least it's listenable. For that, two stars. I think from yesterday's album I can only go up, so maybe I'm being generous. Take advantage of that, Coldcut, and take my rate, because there is no other way I will listen to this album ever again, and if I do... Well, maybe you won't get two stars. What a boredom!

Ok, this is probably one of the worst albums I've ever listened to. And I've tried to like it but... there's just nothing to like here. Honestly, I can't find it. If that's about the beauty of the noise in music, there are better albums of noise, or that combine noise with other genres. It feels arbitrary, nonsense, extremely long and without any other purpose than just for the sake of making an album that is simply bad.

This album is actually pretty great. I've liked it a lot, it's got a lot of different sounds and interest changes while being so cohesive and enjoyable. It's not perfect for me, though. I wish I'd liked it much more, and I thought I would, but some songs have not made me love them. So, it's great, for sure, a fantastic album that joins psychedelia with rock in a very interesting way, but sometimes with not that great results. Maybe I need to listen to it a bit more and, then, I'll have a better opinion.

This album is fantastic but... of course, it's Madonna. It's great how in this album Madonna explores also new sounds and introduces more experimental aspects to her music, which was something that she started introducing even back to Like a Prayer. In this album there's place for more atmospheric tracks (Paradise (Not for Me), Impressive Instant), other folktronica ones (Gone, Don't Tell Me), as well as others heir of the (great) Ray of Light album, which is no coincidence at all (I Deserve It, Amazing), and club ones (Music, Runaway Lover), without losing any coherence. I absolutely love this album, I'm not going to hide it, and I would say it's one of Madonna's best, so diverse yet really well condensed. Madonna's music is often underrated, being her character/persona and performative skills more valued more and over her music itself. However, she is so fresh to deliver new sounds and adapt them to her music, always with a personal touch. This album is one of her most "pop" records, but still has her interest to dive in new sounds, and they match so well her style. For something she is called the Queen of Pop, she is so great at making very different albums from each other without losing her essence, and this Madonna period is one of her most creative ones. It's electronic, but also very human. It's fun, all the contrary to Ray of Light, it's an escape, a way of thanking music for what it's done to her and how it acts in our world, as a way of expressing ourselves, of freeing ourselves, of uniting ourselves.

This album is... better than what I thought it would be. It's not the R.E.M. I remember, it's much more interesting, to be honest. However, it's still not my cup of tea. The album is good though.

This album is not bad at all... nor good at all. It's (just) nice. I'm not going to lie, I liked it, but not at the extent to love it. I've enjoyed some songs, other felt really insipid and forced. This album has fun music on it sometimes but it also tries to be deep in some sense I don't understand. Some songs are so long and uninteresting that I wonder why it has to be a double disc album if they could have chosen some nice tracks and make something more interesting. But, instead, the album is so long that, at some point, you've listened to all it has to offer (and there are still another ten songs more that don't add nothing new).

This album is fantastic! And it just gets better. I really liked the first songs but not at the extent to love it but... Wow! It evolved into something really interesting and grandiose. I love how everything is so coherent here and so different too, how there's time for (long) instrumental parts, which add a lot to the atmosphere of the album. This is truly a gem, I've liked it a lot.

This is awful. There is no other way to describe what I've listened to. Some songs are not "that" bad but, overall, it's a very uninteresting, repetitive and bad album. I'm not into this music, and I honestly can't understand the love to drum and bass and this kind of electronic music, but I guess it could be less painful. I mean, the album gets really boring by the second track, and it doesn't get any better at any time (and it's more than an hour long!). Maybe this kind of music is made for listening while being on a disco or something... I don't really know, but consciously, with all my attention, it actually is based on very long songs that are all the time following the same structures and rhythms. What may I find interesting here? Is there anything I'm missing? Because, honestly, electronic music can be interesting, all the layers and textures in the songs but, with this album, I can't even enjoy it, if there is anything to enjoy here more than jumping to it, and that is something I didn't do and that I'm not going to do – one listen has been enough. Next!

This album is pretty nice. Not much of my liking, to be honest, but it has good songs. It's at times a bit bland, and a very safe one for me. There is not much variety and, as for what is there, sometimes it's not that interesting. But, overall, it's nice.

This album is really good, the songs are pretty great. I didn't think I would like the album, I have never been much interested into Elton John's music, but I should check it out. So, well, it's not fantastic but it is really interesting.

This album is great. It's really mind-blowing. There is a lot of variety, but it doesn't lose interest or the hook, instead, it gets so much power. It's both, haunting and beautiful, magnetic and energetic. I've loved listening to it, it's such a great one, for sure.

This album is pretty great. I've enjoyed it so much, and, honestly, it has many great songs. I don't know what else to say. As other albums I've given five stars, I don't think it's absolutely a masterpiece, a perfect album, but I could listen to it many times and not get bored of it. It's a solid nine, enjoyable and with great music. What else may I need?

This album is... Well, not much of my taste. It has nice songs, but nothing that really impresses me. It's very basic at times. So, well, I liked it, but not much, and it's not the kind of music I would listen to.

This album is pretty great. I've liked this a lot, and, honestly, there is nothing bad I can say about it. Maybe it's not the most innovative album I've ever listened to, but it is such an enjoyable one. So, even if it's not a masterpiece, it's a solid nine for me. Really good and enjoyable, with some fantastic tracks and a little bit of variety (even though not much).

Oh, well, I knew I would like this, but I never thought I would really like that much this album. It's such an enjoyable and diverse album. Arrival is a great song, which discovered me Mike Oldfield's version is a cover. There are really funny songs, others that are also quite interesting... There's room for everything without losing the essence. I've liked a lot this album, truly.

Well... It's not about Morrissey, I'm not going to talk about him (and I don't personally know him, so I won't attach my opinions about him to the quality of this album), I promise. But this album is really bland, so tasteless and insipid. It's a very soft rock without much interest. It's not harmful, it could be background music and I wouldn't even care about it. But, well, I've listened to it with all my attention and... it's very boring, to be honest. He has a warm voice (and I think I said the same in my other review), that's fine, but the songs are not of my liking. And about the lyrics... Well, I won't talk about it. Some doesn't inspire me in the very least. So, yeah, I didn't like this album.