Reviews by henry-winchester

They say "You're married with a kid when you should be having fun," but also "Stop your messing around." I will NOT be approaching The Specials for life advice.

Caught Sebadoh live a few years ago and they were ace. This album is great, slack with occasional ventures into artful noise-rock.

Tender and quiet and sweet.

A contender for my favourite album. It slowly grew on me when I first heard it, each listen revealing more texture and layers. It's dreamy and nightmarish, ambient but danceable, analog and digital.

The great thing about short songs is that when they're terrible they don't last for that long.

Politically switched-on and kaleidoscopically joyous. I think I might even prefer this to "There's A Riot..."

This is more like hip-hop than punk, with the music providing a blank canvas for Lydon to ad-lib over. It's progressive, occasionally sublime, and sometimes completely discordant. But it's always really good; I especially love those creeping bass lines.

This really fucking rocks when it goes for it, and it's a lot more authentic than popular albums that have been digitally remastered into oblivion. Reminded me of The Stone Roses in places, The White Stripes in others.

I don't remember a single thing about this.

Only just found the "high quality" setting on Spotify, which means everything I've listened to so far has been on "low." 😬
This noticeable increase in fidelity, and the brass interludes, made this collection of fairly middling rock songs much more palatable.

Turns out this is the absolute worst possible record to listen to on a stressful day of dealing with lawyers and HR departments.

The first two tracks here are amazing, and "Freedom" is one of my favourite songs ever, just a shame that Robbie Williams massacred it. The rest of the tracks wear a little thin at times, but the most astonishing thing here is just how incredibly human and fragile George Michael comes across, despite that heartbreakingly powerful voice. Very much missed.

This was so disappointing when it came out that I wrote a letter to the NME. But time has healed that deep wound and "Kid A" isn't all that bad. I think I wanted more guitars when I was younger, but this is much more dynamic and interesting. "How To Disappear Completely" is the best track here.

I saw a man holding a broom when Ice Cube said the word "broom." Five stars.

Always on the verge of becoming brilliant, but never quite gets there.

I didn't think this would be so folky. Sort of enjoyed it though.

My cousin is a huge Steve Earle fan, but he never really clicked for me - until now. Technically, this is folk-rock, but these are perfectly formed popsongs, the sort of heartbroken ballads that Taylor Swift would launch into the stratosphere 40 years later.

Massive Attack are such a 60% band. Some of "Blue Lines" is amazing, and "Unfinished Sympathy" is an incredible demonstration of how epic and soaring dance music can be. But some of this just sounds like a bunch of drunk mates messing around with synths and samples.

Put your back into it, mate. C'mon.

Raitting this 3/5.