Reviews by mitten

Actually a really good and underrated soul album that lives up to Marvin Gaye's name, if not falling short of What's Going On because most albums on earth would fall short of such a bar

Certified good listening

Bluesy, sort of psychedelic, but it manages to sound like its own thing among the styles, decent fun

The most mystical feast of cosmic rock sensation, an album almost too glam for glam rock

Some of the faster songs feel a little more "standard glam rock", but when it's truly being itself, space alien rock 'n' roll superstars in tow, it sounds like nothing else

I don't do well with foreign-language albums (I'm american)

A bunch of Metallica songs in an alternate, still-fun coating, you don't need to prefer them over the originals to have a good time

The world's most prolific Dylan cover band is at it again

It gets the prog rock buff, though it's a little jammy and aimless. It still sounds good

Not crazy about the lead vocals, but the music is pretty cool. Diet Talking Heads

A one-of-a-kind mixture of heavy, gritty rock songs and softer, dreamy tunes, blending into an album with a very unique feel

Altogether it sounds, looks, and feels like a universe born from the sporadic imagination of a mind that thinks ten thoughts before I can think one... and that's a pretty cool kind of album

There've been a lot of "not like the other girls!!" country albums on this list, things that bait out comments like "I can't get into most country, but this one's different!" This album is a healthy break from that; the one that'll absolutely make no new believers, the one that plays it straight and has little going for it to make the urban, the british, and the liberal say "not all country music!"

Unless you're the world's biggest accordion fan. Or Robert Dimery, I suppose

The most warm and tranquilizing of '80s dance-pop albums (1990 gets to be an honorary 1980s year), sort of a pure comfort food album. There weren't really any "ultimate classic Pet Shop Boys hits", but every track felt pretty satisfyingly good

This is the ever-mentioned music that soothes the savage beast, if the beast in question is part-robotic

Delightfully nutty and entertaining, better than average when the music's played straight and a fun ride when the music takes curves towards the bizarre. Or when whatever's playing might not classify as music at all

Not the most exciting of things to listen to, but there's enough creativity in sound to make the album inch into at least being decent, even if it's desperate for some tastier songs

A sustained 40 minutes of bizarreness and artistry, musically and lyrically, journeying into the untold corners of sounds, yet managing to sail back with some beautifully melodic treasure

Another work of beauty, might've come between a couple more prestigious of Cohen's contenders but this is a lovely album to listen to in itself, fitted with graceful words and warm sound

It's sleepy britpop, occasionally messes with some weird sounds, keeps things a little interesting

Sort of like Wilco crossed with the curse from Sleeping Beauty that puts you unconscious for 1,000 years

But in, like, kind of a neat way, maybe

Smooth soul pop with some neat variety, never really gets unsatisfying and has some nice highs, fun time

Psych rock with a whole sense of Steely Dan-type smoothness across the album, sounds nice

Stylishly unique in the early New Wave era, though they don't have a wide enough bag of tricks for some of them to avoid getting annoying