Reviews by magsmusic

Looking back on this album I am not sure if it was worth as much hype as it received. Don't get me wrong its good (Zion is beautiful) and she takes on deep subjects. Her voice is unique and different and really soulful.
But as it went on it seemed to drag and each song sort of bled into another. Her take on love and hurt was important but at times it seemed repetitive.
I liked song Every Ghetto, Every City and the way she highlighted the small details of beauty of every day of life. I waiver on a 3 or a 4. It is soo much better than some 3's but it doesn't draw me in as much as I expect from a 4.

Techno...meh. Nothing amazing but nothing offensive. I liked the first couple a lot, but techno is just not my thing. the repetitiveness always gets to me.

Everything just sounded like a cloudy Saturday morning after staying up to late the night before. I wasn't really excited about it but there wasn't anything that was inherently bad, it was just blah. I just sat around and chilled.

I might be a Van Morrison fan. Listening to this album made me want to listen to more Van Morrison, so that feels like it was a great album. It wasn't necessarily a 5 but it was great. He has a very unique interesting voice that shows emotion and depth. He also has some interesting lyrics that make me smile. Then you add together the different instruments and genres he mixes, just make it interesting and enjoyable.

I mean...hmmm the synthesizing was cool at times.
Wikipedia says Skinner describes his upbringing as "Barratt class: suburban estates, not poor but not much money about, really boring." I feel like that also describes this album...not poor but not much substance, really boring.

Solid 3, nothing is offensive, hard on the ears or so pretentious it makes my head hurt. It is 90's alt pop rock. Its good and I can listen to it all day but never be moved or feel a deep connection to the music or sound.

It kind of just kept going. One or two songs of it would have been okay, but after a while it was a little grating. I like the last song a lot but often had a hard time understanding her. Overall, not bad but nothing grabbed a hold and made me love it.

There is pretty stuff here and it has some great use of instruments that are not traditional to the alt-rock genre. But I just don't know...I don't dislike them, they just aren't this end all be all of rock bands that everyone makes them out to be. There is little here that seems THAT unique or THAT different. Its emo alt-rock.

Wasn't at all familiar with this band or album so I was pleasantly surprised. I thought it would be more metal and a lot more screaming, so I was happy it was neither. It was techy, electronic, dancy. I little repetitive (my biggest issue with techno) but it was pleasant and nice to listen to.

I liked the message. But something about it was just too in your face and weird. It was like 80's music, mixed with a news commentator, mixed with spoken word.

You can't deny this is 80's. I do give them a little credit for pushing that 80's sound a little farther. It makes up for the over the type breathy lyrics that are somewhat cringe (sex dwarf lol). If they didn't seem so over the type I think I would find it really inappropriate but instead its almost funny.
I waiver here between a 2 and a 3. I love Tainted Love so I will keep it at a 3.

Was there some cool guitar in the first song? Sure. Were the strings and woodwinds cool throughout? Sure.
But ultimately this is all about an old man lusting after a 14 year old and only talk about her in a sexual sleazy way. Its not that he is French and we don't understand...he seriously talks about taking her to a sleazy hotel that you have to sneak into in order to engage in sex that is wrong! Then the song En Melody...just gross, wrong, disgusting. Nope, nope, nope....the fact that people call this his opus and put this album on a pedestal makes it even more disturbing. Excuses like...oh but its beautiful, oh but its unique, oh but he's a genius, oh but but but. NO its WRONG, its inappropriate PERIOD. Let's stop normalizing or making excuses for something that is wrong. He could have written the same exact songs and album and made the women 19. He choose to make her 14, to capitalize on and attempt to normalize pedophile. WRONG PERIOD

I didn't hate it but i didn't love it. It was pure funk. Each song sounded a lot a like, really playing into the funk sound. I danced along, but it wasn't anything super special or different.

The writer of this book sure had a thing for Tom Waits (fourth album). So its "stylistically" different...no its just him again depending on his weird gravely voice and some strange sarcastic sense of humor that nobody else gets. This album might not have piano, but it has the same thing as all of his other albums, his voice and a weird concept, where he just goes on some weird strain of though lyrics. This is not the worst Tom album but lets hope this is where my exposure to him ends.

Just alt hard rock. Everything hit you in the face but not necessarily in a great way. Nothing was overly special or different, it just was.

She has a beautiful voice and the topics she deep, meaningful and mature. Thinking about how she was only 21 at the time seems so impressive that she had had these experiences and so eloquently can describe the pain.

So much yelling about everything. They were all short and moved into one another very well, sometimes I didn't even realize it was a different song because they transitioned so well. But that was also kind of an issue for me because it just felt like someone was on meth and just ranting and raving, skipping from topic to topic so quickly it was hard to keep up with them. In terms of the guitar and drums, they were great (really liked guitar in red tape) and fit hardcore edgy punk. For me it was the lyrics that really fell apart, it was very young adolescent and not super deep (and the erractiness). I didn't hate the short album concept, they said what they needed and wanted to say in 15 minutes so why drag on.

It was a nice oldies album.

I have heard of k.d. lang and was familiar with the hit but that was it so I was going in with little expectations. She has an interesting voice, pleasant and full of emotions. Her sound is just a little different and just a little unique. Close to mainstream but just does it a little differently, making a sound that is pleasant, enjoyable and one that makes you listen twice. I don't know if I necessarily connected with any of the songs, but I wanted to.

They have been sampled galore! They are bumping, dancing and fun. I couldn't stop chair dancing :) Somebody loves me got a little long but their voices were great. Is it deep? No its Disco influenced by R&B. But that is okay, not all music has to be super deep and meaningful, sometimes it can just make you want to get up and dance and feel good. This album does just that