Reviews by mcthrasher

So many albums on this list attempt to use the idea of “rawness” as part of their artistic expression, and so many of them just end up sounding like high schoolers plonking away in their first band. This album uses rawness in an extremely effective way that doesn’t detrimentally affect the musicality of the album. It’s raw in emotion, but not in performance. You can feel it without necessarily hearing it, and that is a very difficult rope to walk.

I can’t hear another album of a guy mumbling over acoustic guitar. I just can’t do it.

Pretty forgettable stuff. They’re trying to do the ambient thing on the first half of the album, but it’s just so thin that it doesn’t work.

Most of the songs are all the same, mid-paced with repetitive riffing. The first song was more thrashy, which was nice, and there are some great drumming moments throughout, but it’s not enough to lift this rating.

A couple unique songs, but most of the songs are very simplistic instrumentally. Some of the songs sound like generic REM-style “rock” songs, but Bowie’s vocal touches prevent it from being too bad to listen to.

Top notch production and some catchy crooning tunes. A nice alternative in the piano-based rock realm.

Muddy Waters js clearly a blues master, but the simple format of the blues holds it back from ever being something I can really put on and jam out to.

All the songs kinda blend together. Really can’t get behind this 2000s British alt crap.

Pretty good songs with terrible vocals averages out to a middling experience.

If this guy actual sang instead of whispering, this could have been something.

A couple decent songs, but most of them sound like some teenager playing with a sequencer.

The vocals are a bit grating, and the songs do end up blending together a bit, but mostly just good rock music.

Track after track off passionate reggae jams, flawlessly arranged and recorded. I didn’t find any riff or song to go on for too long. Everything just flowed nicely.

A lot of acoustic guitar plinking and plunking and not much substance.

Pretty surprised by this after finding the other album by the same group completely forgettable. Nice variety of sounds and textures.

If it wasn’t for Gerry Lee’s voice, this had 5-star potential. Very impressive instrumentation and songwriting all around.

Great voice, nice mix of ballads and funky jams. Any song from this album would fit perfectly over the credits of an 80s movie.

All the songs sounded the same, not really a lot to say. Quite danceable.

A little bit too long. A few of the songs hit a lot of the same notes, but overall pretty good. Decent variety of sounds. I really liked the faster first song; wish there would have been a few more fast ones.

A couple decent songs, and a lot of filler.