Reviews by georgeburgess

Listen, I know this stuff is important but electric blues I just find so same-y. But the opener is great and distorted harmonica is always fun.

Really interesting, half the old Surf rock classics and half the orchestral baroque stuff that was on Pet Sounds.

Every few days I get given an album titled something like ‘Grum Fingers by Mr Pilchard’s Crackerjack Box’

Anyway, this was too bluesy and not psychedelic enough. Some of it was fine and trippy, but a lot was boring.

Starting with Into My Arms is emotional blackmail!

Anyway, the rest is pretty good but I need at least one snarling, rougher-edged song to really enjoy a Nick Cave album.

I’m not a huge grunge fan (except Nirvana who I love), but I prefer when they pull from Metal influences like this rather than funky wakka-wakka guitars (looking at you, Pearl Jam)

Not his best but that’s a crazy high bar. Great!

Brimful of Asha is really an outlier on this, the rest is a fusion of traditional South Asian music and hip-hop beats, soundscapes and spoken word. A great surprise!

Great 80s pop. Underrated band beyond their big hits.

It’s nothing against the album, it’s nice, I just can’t abide this type of Jazz as an active listening experience

Always tough with a Beatles album to say it’s perfect because there’s always some bollocks on it somewhere. There’s a little here but also some out and out classics, so a 4!

I love the Divine Comedy, Neil Hannon is in my top lyricists of all time. This album is full of great songs and ideas. Slightly weaker in the second half before the end, but still a fab collection of tunes.

Obviously the title track is a banger but I think I only actually enjoyed about 3 tracks on this

It’s not bad, I liked the faster power pop punk style stuff. Some of it was like The Stranglers just not as good.

Like a mix of bossa-nova, folk, elements of prog and psychedelic. This really won me over by the end!

Yeah cool! Liked how it looped around in the end. A weak 4 for me.

Kinda cool, might be nice in the background of a party. Failed to blow my mind

If REM had none of what made them interesting. Some of it is fine but a boring affair generally.

Another one of those albums that seems like something that I’d enjoy more than I actually am enjoying it.
Longer songs I felt didn’t develop into anything interesting, the shorter ones were quite enjoyable!

Carole King might have one of the most interesting careers in the music industry. Be in a writing partnership creating some of the best doo-wop songs of all time and then start a solo career with a style that could rival Janis Joplin. Liked that this had newer takes on the older songs she wrote.

Imagine this being your last album. Insane.