Reviews by ella_ayates

His voice does sometimes verge on annoying but most of the time I enjoy it. These songs tell stories in such a fun and beautiful way, just really fun to listen to.
Favourite song: Seeing Other People
Least: Mayfly

This was the first album I ever rated when I first attempted this list, I gave it four stars, my favourite song was Parasite. Now when I listen to it I'm bought back to walking home in the dark on a clear night having just submitted a draft of my dissertation letting this beautiful voice calm me down.
Favourite: Parasite
Least: Road

I really enjoyed the first song- it had movie soundtrack vibes, but the rest of the album just didn't live up to that level of fun.
Favourite song: Birdland
Least: Remark You Made

This album simultaneously makes me nostalgic for growing up in the city (or at least in the suburbs of the city) and makes me desperate to leave the city and stand somewhere green before there's nowhere green left to stand.
Favourite song: Modern Man (or Ready to Start)
Least: Half Life I

I love his voice, lyrics and guitar so much. I also (somewhat surprisingly) really enjoyed the instrumentals. I've only heard Pink Moon before and in comparison there's definitely some unnecessary extra production to Bryter Layter (although admittedly some of it is done gorgeously).
It's a bit heartbreaking to hear a man who died at 26 singing "a whole long lifetime could have been the end".
Favourite song: One of These Things First
Least: Poor Boy

I don't particularly like her voice which made this album quite difficult to listen to. I quite liked his vocals but the slowness of it meant after one song of that I was ready for it to be done.
Favourite song: Hell Is Round The Corner
Least: Feed Me

Little too beep boppy for me at points but overall I find myself a Pet Shop Boys fan. Found the lyricism and story behind Being Boring very touching. Not sure why they say "years" like that.
Favourite: How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?
Least: So Hard

Frankie Teardrop has got to be one of the worst songs I've ever had to sit through, and there's 10 minutes of it!!!
Favourite song: Che
Least: Frankie Teardrop

Mostly pretty fun and dancey, occasionally slips into annoying. The issue for me is that when a song you don't like comes on (and repeats uninspired lyrics) it does that for like 8 minutes! But the songs that I like I really like.
Favourite song: All My Friends
Least: Get Innoculous!

I can imagine in certain moods I'd really like this but in todays mood I found a lot of it boring. Some good songs but a lot of indecipherable mummuring.
Favourite song: Cherry-coloured Funk
Least: Fifty-fifty Clown

Struggled to get through this one, found it alternated between dull and annoying.
Favourite song: Aladdin's Story
Least: Death Threat

Never a fan of being screamed at, even when the screams are in the form of "wah"s and "wow"s. Plus the sound quality was a bit shaky. Pretty fun music and I understand the "punkness" was ahead of it's time but it sounds pretty old to me.
Favourite song: Do You Love Me
Least: Dirty Robber

There's no denying that Beyonce had a huge impact on music and pop culture (I mean there's a full wikipedia article called "Cultural Impacts of Beyonce") and Destiny's Child was the start of that.
The album itself starts very bop heavy with some truly iconic songs but it definitely drops off a bit towards the end when the ballads start up and the weird religious song at the end really threw me. Iconic album if a bit incohesive.
Favourite song: Bootylicious
Least: Gospel Medley

None of the others hit the way Alright did. Some of the songs were a bit too high energy.
Favourite song: Alright
Least: We're Not Supposed To

Old man, look at my life, 24 and there's so much more!
Favourite song: Old Man
Least: There's a World

Find the album art a bit spooky. Honestly I got a bit bored of listening to this album and some of the songs started blending together. He's got a nice voice though!
Favourite song: I'm In The Mood
Least: The Healer

You can tell this guy is a musical theatre fan by the grandness of the music and the storytelling. I hadn't heard any of this album before and I love it, it's gorgeous and varied and emotional with such well constructed lyrics! And even better with headphones on- I feel like I'm surrounded by the music.
I Want Two listen to it again and again!
Favourite song: Art Teacher (or Gay Messiah)
Least: Agnus Dei (really wasn't a fan on first listen but it's grown on me)

Wasn't surprised to find out the lead singer produced Sam Fender's album, you can really hear how this inspired his sound. So lovely to get a good album from a band I've never heard of and want to keep listening to!
Favourite song: An Ocean In Between The Waves
Least: The Haunting Idle

Stupid name for an album. Lots of bangers but it does get a little samey. They were playing the first concert I went to with (now one of my best friends) Milo- although probably not my favourite artist from that concerts line up.
Favourite song: Basket Case
Least: In The End

Not as hard to listen to as I feared it would be but still not really my thing.
Favourite song: Prowler
Least: Transylvania