Reviews by mitten

Music that makes me want to have a pub brawl over my british hometown's sports team, and I'm not even british

It's jams

Refreshingly artsy and unique, at its most engaging early on but it still retains an interesting sound

Sounds very uniquely Run-D.M.C. of them, but consequently all the songs feel pretty similar to eachother. Still fun, still an early force in hip-hop history, and it's got that '80s charm

Soothing and comfortable, mostly straightforward in its style but still a good way for one's ears to spend their time

Blends into the rest of the plentiful noise rock albums on the list moreso than it stands out, it's a solid block of songs, only as a wheel that doesn't find itself reinvented

I don't think I get it

Psych rock album to make all the other psych rock seem straight-edge, this album goes places, circus music will dissonantly play over *other* circus music, it ends like the last passing thoughts through your brain before you die, but it's also got plenty of more normal music and it's soothing and satisfying

They're hatter-mad, alright

Packed full of funky power for its time, carries the repetition of the style without much effort to repel it, but it does sound good

It can outfunk the funkiest, on earth or beyond

It's good for what it is, it's not the album's fault that a 100-minute run of straight bluegrass was thrown at me... It can have elements of over-sameness through the songs, it sounds like what bluegrass sounds like, so not an incredibly varied sound

It has good moments, some of the instrumental tracks get into it nicely

Not a bad thing

Groovy beats, though somewhat of a consistency between tracks that invites a little dullness

I can hear tones of the heart of rock 'n' roll and the blood of America in here or something like that, it's a nice and satisfying country rocker with some occasional more-standard country songs, sounds good but not necessarily something special or new

The more I listen, the more I get to appreciate how every song is an addition to the consistent experience, a pleasant dreamful of noisy out-of-body rock music that doesn't let up on its style

Pleasant with an interesting earthy sound, but doesn't travel too many places. Still has good things to offer, and Jim Cain is a good track

A torrent of imagination and creativity, though the heavy-hitters stand above the rest, all of the album is still fully satisfying to listen to

But you don't need me to tell you that about Stevie Wonder

A different side of Elvis Costello that shows he's got more than one version of himself to offer, which should probably be the case for anyone with six mandatory albums

Varied in sound and fun, maybe at its most dynamic and entertaining on the first half

More varied yet less concentrated than Vespertine, but very much a second work in that vein, still keeping up its commitment to beauty well

Strange and tranquilizing, an unexpected treat for my ears to hear. Wacko artsiness is at its best when whatever it's doing makes something as soothing as this

Outside of the mega-hit it's sort of average but still somewhat imaginative, but California Dreamin' mostly steals the show and keeps it

It's versatile and it sounds pleasing through it all, but the songs do bear the feeling of "not being anything special"

It's fine but why am I here?