Reviews by k-dot-r

Not an album. Just sort of happens in the background, for less than half an hour, then stops. Mildly hypnotic at points, but still 100% an e.p. rather than an album.

Not good, just happens

Yacht rock, about 10 years late. Pleasant enough, but not entirely essential.

Très français, et j'aime la France, alors je l'ai aimé!

Yet another folksy Americana album, but better than some of the many (many, many) other albums on the lists. Not flawless, not essential, not bad.

An all-time classic, and still not their best work! What a great band they are, somehow hugely famous and well-loved, and yet massively underrated and overlooked at the same time. For this to be on the list would perhaps mean losing one of their albums which is there already, unless the book has more albums, but it was a great listen and a worthy suggestion.

pure pop, pure rubbish, hard to believe she built such a huge career off the back of such a nothing debut. Auto-tune, Akon, terrible guest verses, and rubbish production. Probably deserves to make the list, for lasting impact alone, but not if I get to write it!

He's gonna need a strepsil! Hell of a heavy, and a hell of an album. What a band

At least when this sounds like two (or more) songs at once, it is definitely on purpose! I didn't recognise the name, but I have heard a lot of his other work, through my kids, and this stands up well in comparison. I loved a mash-up back in the day, and this album reminded me why. Sometimes funny, sometimes technically impressive, often both, and an absolute joy

Overlong and overblown, but with nothing that could sensibly be cut.

Prog good, metal good, prog metal good!

Good, but an album I would not have appreciated had I heard it at the time - since I was 13!

Backing tracks, which might sound OK once they're finished.

Not their best, but better than a lot of the crap on the list.

26 albums in, and still rocking! A band I knew by name only, but will explore more fully when I have the time. A cracker

Yes!

Pure pop; not my thing, but not terrible.

Nonsense, and yet catchy and hypnotic.

Solid, if unspectacular indie. Some of the songs remind me of Snow Patrol, a bit. A couple of them have really incongruous lyrics. I liked it, but didn't love it.

The inflection point between pop-punk BN and emo BN, featuring none of their most famous songs (but a few really good ones). A very good album, which falls just short of full marks for me. A decent shout though

All filler, no killer; like the songs between the good songs on an indie radio station. Not terrible, not memorable, but a pleasant enough way to pass the time.