Reviews by mkw

I have a weakspot for grime. Minus 1 for the skits.

This did absolutely nothing for me.

Enough with the constant Dexys midnight runners already. This band cannot possibly have produced 3 of the most important albums in human history.

At least this fresh bunch of nonsense isn't 90% skit.

Maybe if the dude learned to sing they would have been more than a one-hit wonder.

Loved this. Very forward for 1965, and incredibly unpolished.

That's a lot.

Clearly there's a lot going on, and most of it is both interesting and works, but I think you have to be a Kate Bush fan and spend a lot of time with this to actually get it.

A worse version of The Beatles. I don't enjoy The Beatles to begin with.

Moody and experimental. The tracks do seem to drag on a bit.

Very generic sounding album. And there's just so much of it.

I should like this, but I just cannot get into the album.
The beats are interesting, and honestly fine, but never really that exciting. The lyrics are meaningful and personal, but just so on the nose that they lose the appeal.

This does not feel finished.

Something about the incessant shaking and the half open guitar strumming on the first track made it absolutely claustrophobic. There's just non-music everywhere, and it's 10 layers deep.

The rest of the album is somewhat better, but why does every single miserable track include a god forsaken recorder of all things? Who enjoys that?

I will never get Elvis Costello. This is a good album, but is it actually great?

I struggle with Bowie. This is pretty easily accessible though. It's not gonna be a frequent replay from me, but I genuinely enjoyed it.

Very, very dated. The call and response, ending each others sentences gimmick really grates after a while. This was clearly an important and influential album, but it ends up sounding very simplistic and old.

What a voice.

The quality seems to dive a bit in the 2nd half of the (very short) album, but the openers are amazing.

It doesn't matter that the topics are at best juvenile, and often much worse. The technical skills on display in both lyrics and presentation changed the genre.

Avant-garde industrial, but infinitely almost easy listening to compared to Einstürzende Neubauten. Honestly not sure how serious this was meant to be taken, but it’s certainly out there, and I think it’s hard to argue this was not influential.

I truly enjoyed this, but there's not one individual track that I would think stands out. Not entirely sure what genre(s) this would be classified as, but everything works.

What an album. Short, to the point, all of the energy.

This is a pretty generic sounding album. Nothing to hate, nothing to really love either.

The music is fine (if slightly boring). What the hell are those vocals?