Reviews by jillsandwich

Good musicians, well written songs, but it's just too smooth and my brain slides right across it with nothing to latch on to.

Not usually into this style, but this is a surprisingly solid collection of songs.

A safe and unobjectionable country album. I'm not the target audience for this, but it's fine.

The tuba sound in 'Excuse Me' makes me wonder if the title is an apology for an episode of bad flatulence. An messy, uneven album but a few good songs, particularly the closer 'Here Comes The Flood' and some interesting ideas allow it to scrape a low 3 stars.

The most safe and beige collection of melodies, riffs and lyrics I've heard so far. Fittingly, there is a track called (I'll Give You) Money which is exactly what Frampton would have to do to make me see his live show.

As dull and uninspiring as a very weak cup of tea where the teabag has barely made contact with the water.

I'm sure there's a lot of cultural context I'm not getting. To me it just sounds like pleasant background music. A bit long and repetitive, and I don't see myself ever listening to it again. But it sounds nice enough not drop it to a 2.

I've never listened to Radiohead properly before, but I'm liking this a lot. The soundscapes are very soothing to my brain. It feels like it's taking me on a journey.

I like a handful of these songs, particularly Friend, You've Got to Fall and She Floated Away. However, at 1hr 9 minutes it's just too much of the same unappealing, rough sound that most of these tracks have. More grating than anything else.

I wanted to give this 4 early on but it's very long and gets boring for a good stretch towards the end. I'm not sure why people are fixating on the homophobia - maybe I missed something, but the lyrics sound relatively mild to me compared to others. It's hardly surprising that a hip hop album from the year 2000 has some objectable lyrics in it.

This is a weird one for me.
Musicianship 10/10
Historical importance 10/10
Personal enjoyment 7.5/10
I think I'm just too British and sober and far removed from the 60s to really vibe with it.

Boring but pleasant. Like sitting around waiting in someone's lounge but they have very nice wallpaper.

A really good, exciting and fun punk album that I hadn't heard before by a band I knew very little about. It's always good to be surprised like this.

A damn good album, even though reggae isn't usually my thing. All good songs. My only real complaint is the track order, Revolution should have been the closer.

None of these songs go anywhere and there are about twice as many of them as there should be. Synthy europop should be more fun than this.

More like a 3.5. Interesting and mostly pleasant, but not memorable or emotionally impactful.

An 80s album that sounds like the 60s and the 90s had a baby. Not that it's a bad thing.

Just a really fun album that put me in a good mood all day. An antidote to the endless grey and lifeless January I find myself in.

I get the hate but I enjoy the theatrical excess and weirdness of this one. Especially when he hits those ridiculous high notes on Club Country.

I'd give 4.5 if I could. Just a really good collection of songs that keeps revealing more layers as it goes, and stays interesting all the way through.