Reviews by lostizalith

time of the season is great and there are other songs as well

apparently i have a real soft spot for goofy fantastical hippie folk. once again they're talking about riddles and minotaurs and the trees whispering and shit and i'm on my feet cheering. i can't blame all the 1 star raters for doing so but they are wrong

we took a time machine back to 1966, grabbed some random white men off the street, shoved some instruments into their hands, and told them to record a rock album. this is what they made ❤️

never got into them back in the day and it doesn't look like that will change. i like many elements of this but they are all elements i can get from better more interesting artists that don't make me feel like i'm in an urban outfitters

very flawed and very special

a bit too much white boy edgelord-ism for my taste, and i probably won't listen again unless i'm in an exceptionally bad mood and want to make it worse, but i don't hate it. thematically deeply unpleasant to sit with, sonically "unpleasant" to some but the sound is the part i really like. definitely deserves its place on this list for cultural relevance and for being very much what it is

really really love this

highlights: this time of night, SUNRISE, elegia

sure

no one needs to be listening to a 90's band doing 70's cosplay in the 2020's

a plain hot dog from a tacky 50's themed diner

breakdown is good but i wish it were better, luna is good and the most interesting thing here, american girl is american girl

in a worse mood i would give this a 1

much more understated than i expected it to be. marc bolan sings like he's a kid recording this album in secret while he's supposed to be asleep and is trying not to wake up his parents. the recording/production quality doesn't help. it all sounds a kind of amateurish and weirdly limp and off. the more i listen to it the less i like it. i'm genuinely confused as to how this is so highly acclaimed. i know people were making better music in the 70s.

UPDATE: now listening to the 2003 remaster which does WONDERS for this album. brought it up from a painful to listen to 1.5 to a perfectly decent 3

highlights: mambo sun, jeepster, monolith, bang a gong, rip off

mediocre in a really frustrating way where a lot of these songs have the potential to be good but don't quite make it there. undercooked and sauceless. i have always had a soft spot for clocks though. maybe just listen to clocks.

highlights: clocks

<3

somebody to love, and others

some really nice tracks and some kind of nice tracks and some completely forgettable tracks. and a geico commercial track. 3.5

highlights: so easy, eple, poor leno, royksopp's night out

much more sonically eclectic than i thought it would be. still a few too many rawk songs about Being Boys At School for my taste. also fuck alice cooper

highlights: luney tune, blue turk

always roll my eyes at the white guy orientalism but thankfully that is a very small part of the album. 4.5!!!!!!

highlights: deacon blues, peg, home at last, josie

type of music you hear from a local band at a free concert in the park. pleasant but unremarkable and often corny. i really liked the first track, which made me think i would really like the rest of the album, but it largely failed to grab me. fuzzy is a good name for it. no reason to be here.

highlights: the shining hour, soft wolf tread, stars n' stripes

lowlight: dixie drug store (embarrassingly cliché, racist)

lots of talent here but most of it is going towards making some "LOL are you triggered bro?! XD" type shit and i'm not an edgy 12 year old boy so it doesn't do much for me. 2.5

smells like white wine fumes