Reviews by k-dot-r

Boring and annoying

Canadian landfill indie - not great, not terrible.

Nonsense, with a rubbish Kate Bush cover thrown in. Why? Just, why!?

Masterpiece

An interesting choice, which links (through former member Bic Hayes) to one of my favourite albums (Dark Star - Twenty Twenty Sound).
I was entirely unaware of this when it was released, even though I was a music obsessed teenager from the same island as them - they didn't get much (if any) radio play, but probably shouldn't have.

Aussie metal - which can only be a good thing! Wears its influences on its sleeve (if it had sleeves!)
A fun listen I would maybe never have heard otherwise

Loses a star for having Martin Solveig turn up, but otherwise flawless

Borderline disco, but somehow not terrible, probably thanks to the broader base of influences (and variety of songwriters and producers)

Billy Bragg meets Bruce Springsteen, to write songs about history. Not a boring as that sounds, but not far off

Some music.
One half of a 'double album', but which was released separately, and with some of the same songs on both - cash grab?
Not offensively bad, but not overly memorable.

What the hell even was that? And why did I like it so much? And who was he? And, most importantly, what the hell was that?
I have no idea how this ever got a mainstream(ish) release, but there's a touch of magic there, and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to a collection of songs that I would definitely never have heard without this project!

Hell yeah! A supergroup the equal of any band the members had been in before - which is not always the case.
Heavy as hell, and twice as loud, and an absolute blast of a driving album - as long as you don't mind a speeding ticket!

An album absolutely stuffed full of its influences, with "the Taylor Swift song" and "the Lana del Rey song" particularly obvious. None of this is a bad thing, just a bit odd to hear odes to individualism in the style of someone else.
I am definitely not the target audience for this, so she'll not care in the slightest what I think anyway!

Like a first draft of a demo, with seemingly no thought put into polishing the songs up or having an actual producer help them out. This is endearing at points, but at other times I just wish they had spent more than the run-time on writing and recording.
An interesting album I would never have heard without it being here, but falls a long way short of the standard required for the top 1,001 (or even 2,002) albums.

I still don't really *get* jazz(/fusion), but I fully accept that it is my issue, not a fault of any of the artists.
As for this album, I thought it was cool, and enjoyed listening to it, but I would struggle to adequately explain why!

Not as good as "Bleed American", but very nearly (helped by having a demo version of one of my favourite BA tracks) - and still absolutely a five star album for me. An interesting choice, thoroughly deserving of being nominated.

Very Canada, much chilled, fairly folky

Prog-prog, so 80s I actually struggle to believe it was released in the 90s. Not as good as their other one on the (extended) list, but still pretty decent

Probably the newest album on the (extended) list, and certainly more recent than the previous edition of the book.
A worthy prog-goth effort, sounding enough like their classic work to appeal. Would probably benefit from a few days to properly immerse myself in it, but there's another album waiting for today.

The only surprise is that this wasn't on the list already - it checks all the boxes!

British ×
1970 - 1999 ×
Influence on blur/radiohead × (both)
Critically acclaimed (but poor sales) ×
Worthy, but a tiny bit dull ×
A solid four-star album, just missing the bit of magic that would elevate it to full marks ×