Reviews by mcthrasher

Very fun album that manages to be fun without feeling too fake or poppy. All the songs are kind of the same pace and feeling though.

Politically charged lyrics that feel deep and meaningful where so many others just feel cringey. The music has a nice free flowing feel.

Very simple and sloppy. The kind of music you make with your first band when you’re 14 years old.

Kinda just makes you wish you were listening to Bowie.

Great record. Almost every song is memorable and recognizable. The sparse instrumentation gives it a unique sound that no other band can fulfill.

Pretty generic rock. Not really much to say about it.

Some songs sound like they’re being sung by a drunk uncle, others are fine. A bunch of random talking in a couple songs, which is always annoying. Best song was a ripoff of Warren Zevon.

Pretty bad Daft Punk dupe.

A couple great sorta funky songs, but also a couple stinkers. I appreciate the ingenuity of using loops and samples, but I hate when a loop is only a couple seconds long. It gets tired QUICK

Didn’t think a Christmas album could be much more than overly-sentimental schlock, but this is some genuine fun. Will become an annual holiday listen for sure.

Feels more like a parody of 60s music than a real coherent album. Everything muddled by too much reverb. Very overrated.

Pretty standard jazz. Doesn’t have as much of that African flair that I was hoping for. Feels like it’s missing a certain element to make it unique.

Now this is a proper album! All the songs feel unique, but still feel like they belong together. MJ’s voice is so good, and the layered vocal harmonies make it feel even more powerful. The auxiliary percussion abounds and makes each song’s beat feel deep and groovy. Perfectly produced, with fun, beautiful songs; what else could one ask for from an album?

Pretty generic sample-heavy hip hop. I much prefer when there’s a written synth line or when the samples have been so chopped up that they aren’t recognizable. This is just straightforward samples under pretty straightforward bars. Way too long too.

Some truly incredible songs, and some kinda shit songs. The good songs are so good you kinda forget the silly little songs are even there.

Very generic 70s hard rock. No reason to listen to this album over anything else of the genre.

A couple decent songs, but most of the songs are just a 1 bar riff repeated ad nauseam with the singer whining over the top of it. There’s no memorable hook, no powerful bridge, no dynamic changes in most of the songs.

Completely beyond surprised by how much I loved this. The influences of metal, punk, and goth all come together to create a perfectly balanced album, flowing from the chromatic riffage of metal to the rapid power chords of punk and the quiet emotion of goth. Many songs make clever use of guitar and vocal effects and digital recording techniques, while others stick to the classic sounds of punk. The lyrical content is deep while not seeming too pretentious or naïve. I loved each song more than the last and wanted to relisten to the album later the same day.

I refuse to believe this isn’t a parody project created by Fred Armisen.

English Rose is a beautiful song though.

Very well-produced. Each instrument is crisp and clear and fills its sonic space fully while not overlapping with the other instruments.

Beyond the production though, the songs are a bit boring. They just sorta came up with one riff and repeated it for most of the song, while singing lyrics that lyrics that sound like 8th grade poetry.