Reviews by henry-winchester

Enjoyed this. Light but not fluffly.

A modern album I've actually heard before! Woohoo!

I doubt these guys will ever be anything more than a one hit wonder.

How is this 25 years old!
It's riot grrl *and* girly. Deeply progressive and light and fluffy. Feminist and knowingly cheesy.

Very Sonic Youth-y, and maybe a bit too Sonic Youth-y listless noise rock in places. But it's easy to forget that this kind of music was bubbling under until Nirvana brought it to a boil.

Just took one look at this guy and knew I was going to love this album immediately. Bright, joyful, and catchy; it could almost be the music from Sonic The Hedgehog. I wish every Monday morning started with this soundtrack.

I'd heard "Staring at the Sun" on an Adam Freeland mix, but the rest of this was new to me. They're just so unique and this album is timeless. It's the aggression of rock with the instrumentation of jazz and all these searing harmonies. A band I should have paid more attention to at the time.

You can just imagine the film that would be attached to this. Dynamic with that Teutonic deadpan delivery.

30 minutes of utter perfection. There isn't a duff track here. They're all so well-written and precisely tooled.

I feel like I never need to hear "Paranoid" or "Iron Man" ever again because they're so overplayed and frankly boring. But the lesser-known tracks on this album are the stand-outs, revealing an intelligent and talented band that is far beyond Ozzy's cartoonish antics.

This isn't an album, it's a party.

Better than the indulgent and stupefying "Melancholy," with some interesting shoegazey moments.

I think one Undertones album is quite enough for this list. We get the idea, Feargal!

Should be called "So-so."
"Sledge Hammer" is great, and "Big Time" isn't bad, but the rest of this is the kind of limp, boring pop that dominated the 80s.

Not The Eagles, man!
But this was actually OK: it turns out the title song has been overplayed, but the rest has been underplayed.

You could almost add "ualized" at the end of the band name, and it would be much the same. Not a bad thing at all: this is adventurous, epic, noodley fun. Which is also how I refer to sex.

I listened to this on my work computer am I going to get fired?
But also, "Melody" is incredible in its squirminess; song that goes just about everywhere and soars and evolves dramatically. And I never realised just how directly David Holmes ripped it off for "Don't Die Just Yet."

I've always found The Jam a bit annoying, but I enjoyed this. There are none of the overplayed headline Jam singles, and it reveals a more tender side to the band. Absolutely understand how they inspired Oasis now.
Not sure what David Watts or Billy Hunt would make of it though.

That cover! Why do they all look like waxworks. But also, this is great. Amazing talent all working together, totally ego-free, and just so charming and touching.

I feel like I should have paid a lot more attention to this, but I liked what I actually paid attention to.