Reviews by jander

Amazing singer. Stylistically all over the map, but always interesting.

Dreamy quality. No complaints, but it didn’t really grab me.

Quirky and cool.

I can’t say that this is objectively a 4/5, but I was vibing with it.

Flows for sure, but the lyrics are appalling and repetitive.

Cool.

I wanted to like this, but WTF with the misogyny and “jailbait” lyrics? Also all the songs kinda sounded the same.

Nice.

Some okay tunes. “A Passage to Bangkok” lyrics are clearly about weed, but somehow the music gives some racist vibes.

It was okay.

If you have ever unironically yelled at someone “I hate you, you’re not my dad!” then this is the album for you.

3 or 4 songs in I figured I got the idea and didn’t care to listen to the remaining 60+ minutes of someone screaming at me.

Why is this considered “good”? Stealing Black culture and packaging it as a novelty act. Zero stars.

No notes.

Spends all of its time wallowing in post-September 11 national self-pity. Springsteen seems like a decent enough guy, but bullshit rhetoric like this only served to abet the United States’s slide into christian nationalist fascism.

Mostly pretty good, but nothing to really make me want to listen again.

Kinda too much early 90s vibe for me.

This album was in heavy rotation with the stoners in the back of the bus during my high school era.
Mostly overwrought and ponderous, with a few good licks thrown in, eg Run like hell.

The world needs more BB King.

Amazing lineup. 5/5, and I’m not even kidding.

Melancholy folk with a medieval vibe.