Reviews by mitten

Decently convincing songwriter-core music, missing some spice for an extra lift but it's still pretty solid

Repetitive and not that eventful but it still sounds kinda sick

A 1980 rock album that sounds decently of its time, fitting in with the upbeat fun grooves of all the punk/post-punk/new wave albums that happened right around here, just throwing a little more edge and some electronic flair. Decent

Large and exciting rock music, which I'm pretty susceptible to

Dreamy and mystical, maybe a little more consistent and even than "Yoshimi"

Strange and one-of-a-kind, a big experience for its time

half deaf but fully alive

A simple folk album, yet comfortable and lush beyond its time

Not exciting as a constant, but it's got some unique and enjoyable sound to offer

Good-sounding, sleek and clean for their time, and it even comes with the prog buff, hard not to approve of

Hits a lot of the normal gangsta-rap beats, if not helping invent some of them, but it's got some interesting variety and enough lyricism flow

I wish I'd listened to the hidden track on mute instead

The album is pretty cool when the brain denies the track ever existed for the sake of its own self-preservation, though

Cool sound, does all melt into a sort-of similar puddle but it's good listening

Gritty noisy hell rock, more of this please

It feels typical-sounding but it's also pretty early so maybe it deserves some credit for setting trends, it's not the most varied of albums to listen to but it is pleasing and it's capable of mustering up some likeable charm when it wants

An immersive and sweet-sounding trip that anyone should hear, though a fairly consistent sound might leave the lesser tracks beginning to feel like one big blob

Album's still awesome though

Sounds good and it's creative though maybe a bigger commitment to the commercialist jingle-fueled novelty would be fun, just having a bunch of perfectly normal songs feels like the easy way out

But it's not like there was an incredibly extensive well of novelty albums pulling off concepts like this back then, it's some decent fun

Also an all-time cover

A healthy middleground between the classic, messy, rocky Cave and the later, more gentle Cave, it lasts for a long time and it's generally very solid. It could be a little over-lengthy but its offerings are good and it serves well as a general example of Nick Cave's style

Doesn't have any of their most memorable work or anything that would really get there but it's a good, consistent, and satisfying listen, a whimsical little album of "renaissance fair rock", perhaps. It's got some heaviness and some "aah, aah!!" harmonies, it sounds like some good Queen

A collection of some nicely varied '90s electronic tracks that are actually at least partially awesome through-and-through, though a little inaccessibly long for the amount of variation within each track itself. They *do* vary, but not enough to necessarily do away with the immobile feeling of tracks like these. It's pretty cool, though, could listen to some tracks

There's something about the '90s trip-hop scene (of which Dummy reigns over) that often tends to leave me satisfied, yet not fulfilled. For the most part it's interesting but I don't love it. This feels like the band reaching through the screen to tell me, "we understand and we're not done yet"

It feels deeper, more strange, and more compelling all at once, like Portishead is affirming that they're visionary experimentalists at heart and they're not ready to let go of that, and I'm all the more thankful for it

It's not quite a 5, but with the highs on the album, ranging from the magical electronic swells of "The Rip" to the one-of-a-kind, gritty and aptly named beat of "Machine Gun", it reaches to heights very close