Reviews by james_mir

This is the second "Boris" album on the list, and listening to it made me think of 2 basic things:

1. You guys have such an interesting taste in music that surprises me (and sometimes makes me think that some of you should ask for help).

2. This is not as good as the previous one (no matter the mix version; I tried 2 of them), but how could I not give it 5 stars?

I honestly don't know why I've never listened to this album fully before. It's easy to recognize as one of the best from Tyle, the creator, and a modern classic.

A good listening session of some ambient jazz. I'd not include it in my particular essential list, but it's an honest and meaningful inclusion.

I was totally prepared to hate it, but I ended up enjoying it a bit, mainly as background music

We are really saying to me that they had about 10 or so new spots on the list, and 2 of them were for Charlie xcx? Is one of them a 2026 movie soundtrack? Okay...how I think I am to question this apparently dumb decision. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure she is great, and the future is bright with potential classics in her discography, but with only a couple of new spots, I was expecting to be more surprised by the new inclusions.

Given that, this is a MUCH better album than "Brat". I want to be able to go back some days in time, remove one star I gave to that album, and put it here. Since it's not a possibility and past me already gave 2 stars there, this one will be a 3-star album with potential to be a great one in the future, even as a soundtrack, which is already impressive, given I didn't watch the movie (yet). The songs her are not an attempt to have catchy pop songs and instead they are a collection of emotional songs captured in music, almost independent of the lyrics.

Not particularly remarkable about the album itself, but I'll raise my rating a bit just to praise the fact that it's an official list album that is not from the US or the UK. It deserves to be noted after all.

It was a culturally relevant album for many reasons, but it's such an awful collection of music that I need to rate it poorly.

1 or 2 songs are good (and may deserve a place in a list like 1001), but not the whole album, for sure.

It's nice, but forgettable. A bit better than the standard shoegaze I remember getting from the list before the update.

It's not a 5-star album if I rate it objectively, but I'll give it for being a competent breath of fresh air in an (already) tired world of nu-metal.

I truly consider it a great release, but it's a bit repetitive to listen to it fully. "Happier Than Ever" would be a better inclusion.

I probably already wrote it somewhere around here, but even electronic music being the kind I dislike most, thanks to the lsit I learned to respect the history and technices of this style.

Given that, I can give this album an extra star in respect of its notable innovations compared with most of the electronic albums on the list. It's still only 2 stars, but I really can almost enjoy some electronic after all.

It's a bit daring that they picked a 2026 album for such a list, and I'll give it 1 extra star for that reason. Another extra star for being an almost non-USA/UK album. This is how a 1-star album, with no real novelty among the folk albums already on the list, ends up with a 3-star rating.

Given the album name and the cover art, I was expecting something completely different. It's a 3-star album, since it's competent, but I'll apply a penalty due to my expectations.

Okay. The original list surely didn't have enough Rolling Stones albums. It's a good album, but do we really need to listen to a new one?

Same old, same old (even in 2025)

Great album to restart the list. It sounds exactly as I can see the modern rock music. They captured the feeling of the 2020s

It's really nice to listen to something that is easy to recognize as a potential future classical. 😎

A great great surprise for me. Never heard of them before; I was expecting something as generic as any "English indie rock band," but I found an innovative and creative album that I'll for sure revisit in the future.

If this is not a suggestion from Alex Cameron himself, who decided to give the 1001 book list a try, I'll be really surprised.

It's not bad at all, but the only words that come to mind when I listen to it are "bland", "default", "standard", and "okay". Maybe it's not a bad thing, but it's absolutely something I'll forget in a matter of hours.

Good ol' hardcore to clean up the ears. It's not the greatest album, but it's a refresh in a row of so many different albums every weekday.