Reviews by mcthrasher

Some songs nearly bordering on heavy metal, which is cool, but they all seem so unfocused. Every song has like 6 different sections and they’re impossible to follow. You can never get into a groove.

Extremely overrated. A lot of noise, very little funk. Probably one of the shittiest album openers of all time.

There are a few songs here that I really enjoy, but most of the album features beats that feel too thin. A lot of the beats are just drum machine, with no interesting samples or synths to accompany the percussion.

The best songs here were the more country-sounding ones. The title track was genuinely annoying with its repeated riff.

Some interesting sounds and melodies, but mostly generic rock. The production on most of the songs sounds super thin, with the bass having almost no body to it at all.

The hit songs are the only ones with any sense of dynamics. Every other song just picks a tone and sticks with it for the whole 3 minutes. Pretty generic rock

Way too piano-forward. This is one of those albums that makes you kinda wonder who it’s for. I can’t picture the type of person who wants to hear this. Happy Phantom is a good song though.

Absolutely generic rock. Not much to say about it.

Very high energy. Makes you wanna bust out dancing. Extremely well-produced for how old it is. An album that is mostly carried on fun alone.

I love Willie Nelson and the whole outlaw country thing, but this album is a noted departure from that style. I can see the appeal, but for me, it's far too light. Very reminiscent of easy-listening elevator music. Still some great arrangements of the songs though.

Absolutely baffling that a band can put out this masterpiece of an album, and then put out trash like the other albums of theirs that I’ve been served thus far. It’s like at some point they forgot how to write melody, how to sing, how to write chord changes, it’s just insane. Every song here is excellent.

Upon learning that this was “shoegaze”, I thought I’d hate it, but it ended up being fine. It bridges the gap between the post-punk sounds of the 80s and the grunge sounds of the 90s. I’m not a fan of either of those genres, so it ends up being pretty meh.

Shoulda left these songs to Nirvana, smdh

Some great interpretations of great songs, but the sloppiness and dead air between tracks really take away from the whole experience. A lot of people will probably find those things charming, but they’re just not good.

One of the very few albums I’ve heard that sounds close to the mid-period Beatles. The lyrics are all a bit too nostalgia-ridden.

Very impressive musicianship on display here. Opens with the two worst tracks, which are mostly standard blues fare. The rest of the songs are more exciting. Definitely leaves you wanting a nice structured 3-minute song.

I was just hoping for some sort of melody or hook or something, but, alas, it’s just looping shit with whining vocals, like Radiohead.

Absolutely atrocious. Every song sounds like it’s being made up on the fly. Terrible vocals. Just the worst.

So many slow songs. Lovely instrumentation throughout though.

A bit repetitive, but actually a lot of fun. Simple songs, high-flying vocals, catchy melodies.