Reviews by deepee

Fun listen!
Nothing super memorable, but I’m not mad at it.
Could be a good road trip album.

This band sounds like a bunch of 14 year old boys in a garage. The singing and the instruments are frequently out of tune. Much of this album was painful to listen to due to this. I can handle punk style screaming but maybe not in a key that clashes with the guitars. You must listen to this before you die to know that you too, no matter how tone deaf you are, can make an album.

Hard to say anything bad about these beautiful harmonies. I instantly felt like I should be on a beach having fun.
The songs themselves are pretty formulaic but it’s still an enjoyable listen.

Ohhhh yeahhhhhhhh.
This is TASTY

So so low energy.
I’ll give them two stars because at times I could hear that they were trying to do something interesting musically. But seriously, wake tf up before your next recording session.

They always sound like the Chili Peppers but they know how to mix things up enough to keep an album interesting, which is very appreciated.

I remember that I “didn’t get” this album when it first came out. Was willing to give it a listen with an open mind but it still sounds mostly pretensious and self-satisfied. Give me more rhythm!

What can I say? I’m a sucker for sassy girl bands.

I love the blues, love the harmonica and this is MUDDY WATERS! I want it to be five stars but something is holding me back. Which I think is my underlying hesitation- he sounds a bit restrained? There are 5 star moments, but this is 4.5 stars for me. I know there is a better Muddy Waters album out there and am now going to try to find it.

I was around in the eighties and it was much more fun than this album.
Very meh.

Not my genre but I can here some value here.

Just meh. Funk is good but lyrics are so juvenile it gets tiresome. I think I’m just too old for this one!

One song sounds like the Stones, the next Bowie.. not really sure what they would sound like intrinsically. Not bad not great for me

Music of a tortured soul. It’s introspective, low-key. You can certainly feel that this was written by a person who was struggling. Makes me feel guilty for not loving it, but musically it really didn’t do much for me, to be honest.

This was really an awful listen from start to finish. I can’t stand these kinds of vocals. I think she was aiming for ethereal? New-agey imagery in the lyrics, fluffy high-pitch vocals, unpleasant electronic background music. Couldn’t end soon enough.

The first track in this album is called Being Boring. So you can’t say they don’t warn us!
Okay that’s a bit harsh.

Actually, ;) I don’t dislike the Pet Shop Boys and spent a fair amount of time in the late 80’s dancing to their hits. But much of this album is monotone in both sound and attitude. It lacks the energy I enjoyed in their earlier work. It’s broody. I don’t find that electronica and drum machines really lend themselves to broodiness.

They deserve to have an album on this list. They have three. In my opinion this one could have been passed by.
2.5/5

These British white boys sure can play the blues!

I have a son who loves jazz who tells me this is one of the all-time great albums. I once saw a documentary about a group of people on California who have created an entire religion based on this album.
Personally, I don’t have a feel for jazz. But I will say that this one doesn’t annoy me like many jazz albums do. I can hear it, know it’s good and even enjoy parts of it a little bit.
Personally it’s probably a three for me but I’m going to bump it up in honor of my boy.

I mean, it’s fine. So inoffensive I imagine it played in Scottish grocery stores and people bopped along in the aisles. I was tapping my toes. But I don’t imagine I will remember any song enough to hum it ten minutes from now.

Very moving background to the origin of this album. It was made to keep the music of northern Mali alive during a time when an extremist group banned music in that area. It’s an interesting listen, but without being able to understand the lyrics it eventually all started sounding too similar to my ears. I know that’s a me problem not a them problem, but I can only rate it for myself.