Reviews by scribeben

A lighthearted missing link between punk and indie rock. Wonderful guitar sounds, clever lyrical concepts, psychedelic dynamics. Lovely!

Eh, I don’t get the appeal. I find his vocal style rather obnoxious. “Luna” is better than the others.

I enjoy Sinatra and like some of these tunes. Jobin’s arrangements and little touches are pleasant as well.

Heavy turn of the millennium nostalgia vibes for me on this. Probably makes me like it more than I would otherwise. Nice record to blast first thing in the morning.

Finally get to dig into the REM catalog. I enjoyed this but will probably need multiple listens to fully appreciate it.

I love the interplay between strings, percussion and voice here, with twists and turns around every corner!

Funky, smooth, and energetic. I like the second, less horny, half better than the first.

Finally had a reason to crack open my vinyl of this.

This is definitely the best Led Zeppelin album.

I like this even better than What’s Going On?

Excruciating. Sounds like he’s singing with someone’s balls in his mouth, which means he’s likely doing two things poorly.

Much of this doesn’t hit for me the way it used to. Largely because I find Plant obnoxious but also because it just feels like appropriated blues. “Battle of Evermore” is still cool though. “Stairway” is also pretty undeniably great as a composition even if I’m tired of it. “Going to California” is still pretty. And the actual blues cover “Levee” still rocks hard!

The beautiful simplicity of the vocals and arrangement veil the complexity and stark realism of the lyrics. The vibrato is a bit much on the opening tracks but it doesn’t bother me that much.

This is somewhere between Wovenhand and Silver Jews and isn’t bad, but is not as good as those other bands.

Extremely cool beats. I wish the vocals/lyrics were as interesting. Her general flow is good though.

I got to see James Brown play at Woodstock ‘99 and even then he was full of explosive energy. On this recording that energy threatens to overwhelm the tape and set it on fire. What an incredibly badass ensemble he’s got behind him too!

Extremely well executed, exquisitely produced, but otherwise unremarkable blues.

I guess I had to be there. The guitar sounds are kinda cool though. And I kinda like “TV Party”. I just don’t like Rollins. Wouldn’t load on Spotify so I had to listen on YouTube and ironically, therefore sit through commercials between songs.

In rock, indeed!

I like this one better than Figure 8. Some heavy tracks here.