Reviews by scritters

Pre Listen:
First King Crimson album on here, and it's their worse one of the 2 most popular. I went through a brief fixation on King Crimson after listening to their 'Court of the Crimson King' album and absolutely loving it. I then went through the rest of their discography and was disappointed it never quite reached the same heights and their Court album. It's been years since I listened to this though, so looking forward to it in a way.

Notable Tracks:
Book of Saturday - Used to have this one on my playlist actually. Got rid of it because the vocals made my ears hurt after a couple of re-listens. It's alright, but could've used a few more takes on the singing.
Easy Money - Got the slurpcore samples in here. Good lord I forgot about that.
Talking Drum - That high-pitched shit at the end was so fucking stupid. Are they stupid?
Lark's Tounges in Aspic Pt. 1 & 2 - The instrumentals of this album are the band at it's best and worst. It's got the most solid guitar licks, fierce percussion, wild psychedelic sound, and overall musical creativity within it. At the same time, these songs are filled with random nonsense, lack a truly coherent structure, and feel more like an art project than anything else. Frustrating!

Post Listen:
This album is so frustratingly close to greatness. For every good moment there is an equal and opposite bad moment. No single song is good, but they are full of catchy and banger moments, and moments that genuinely make your ears bleed.

Tough rate here, and I know my personal bias is certainly playing a role here, but I think there's *more* good than bad. That dark and dirty riff from Lark's Tongues Part 1 is so solid. You can tell what they were trying to cook here, it's along the same lines as Pink Floyd with a bit of a messier edge, but they just can't quite get it. I really think if they had done more takes, and had at least ONE guy in the room saying "Nah don't include this, it's awful" this really could've been as incredible as Court of the Crimson King.

Alas, it wasn't meant to be, and their band never reached quite the peak they had when they first started. 3/5

Pre Listen:
2nd Elton John Album I've gotten, 1st was 'Madmam Across the Water'. I've listened to this one before and it enjoyed it well enough. It was also recent enough where I feel like I recall most of the songs on here already. Will be nice to listen to again.

Notable Tracks:

Bennie and the Jets | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | Saturday Night's Alright - The big trio of hit songs from the album. I've got Bennie and Yellow Brick Road on my playlist already, with Brick Road being my favorite track of the album. Saturday Night's an *alright* song, but I think I'd grow weary of it if it was on my playlist. All are absolute bops though.
Dirty Little Girl - Least favorite track. Icky lyrics and mid sound, simple as.

Post Listen:
A good album, but it'd benefit heavily from getting trimmed down. Several songs add nothing other than runtime.

Elton's energetic approach to singing is at it's peak for many of the tracks on here, he's the indisputable highlight of this album. The piano he's playing is right there next to him as amazing throughout. The lyrics themselves vary a bit more in their substance, some songs are absolutely poetic, others not so much. The songs have high highs, low lows, and a sprinkling of mid in-between. Overall though, had they cut just 3-4 tracks, this album would easily be a 5, and possibly one of the greatest of all times. Goes to show once again that oftentimes, less is more.

4/5

Pre Listen:
Never heard of this guy, but based on album cover and release date I'm inclined to immediately feel like this is going to be some millennial hipster nonsense. Low expectations.

Notable Tracks:
N/A

Post Listen:
This album faded to background music way faster than I expected. It's got a vibe down, but it's so sleepy of a vibe I couldn't get in to it.

Dark, Lofi, slow tempo beats and electronics to a mostly soft and equally melancholy vocal backing. It's alright. I didn't dislike any song at all, but I wasn't grooving either. Struggling to say more than that, I didn't really feel anything from this album. The female vocalist could be a little annoying sometimes, but not necessarily bad.

My reaction to this album is about as monochrome as the album cover. Some of the music videos were alright I guess. 3/5

Pre Listen:
Another group I've never heard of. 2008 is modern enough to make me wonder why. Low expectations as such.

Notable Tracks:
Silence - The Portuguese at the start made me do a double take, thought this was an English album. After finishing the album, I certainly wish it was Portuguese. Might've been better!
The Rip - Best track on the album. Has a really weak start, but the most solid finish out of any other song on here. Not anywhere near playlist worthy, but it's the best of the worst.
We Carry On - Least favorite track. Droning airplane warning sound, zany romping drums, and the discordant guitar were just too much. Skipped halfway through.

Post Listen:
That was a weird album in a bad way. Feels like that album embodied the "xd so random xdd" energy of the early 2000's internet. They just threw shit at a wall, and even if it didn't stick they just kept throwing it.

Biggest issue is that horribly vocalist. She sounds so fucking whiney and quivering. It's like she's on the verge of crying or throwing up on every track. That's not vibrato in her voice, it's fucking fear for some reason. The instrumental elements of the album are wacky too, mostly shit. No single element shone through as prevailingly good overall, it all varied heavily, mostly on the side of bad. Again, lots of random elements in the album that add absolutely nothing. Just random for the sake of being weird. At least the theme of the album being somewhat melancholy and spooky is consistent, which is worth some merit.

'The Rip' is quite literally the only thing keeping this album from a 1. Portishead? More like Portajohnhead. Shit sucks! 2/5

Pre Listen:
Gorillaz! I'm really sad this is their only album on this project, because while I like it and have listened to it before, I think they have much stronger albums. Demon Days and Plastic Beach specifically are amongst my top albums of all time, so it's saddening to see them not included on this list. That said, still looking forward to listening to this album.

Notable Tracks:
Tomorrow Comes Today - Love me Gorillaz. Love me Noodle. Love me Murdoc. Simple as. Great song.
Clint Eastwood - One of the earliest memories of watching a music video I have growing up as a kid. Love this song, even if I only heard the censored version for years.
Punk - Least favorite track, because I hate punk music,. To their credit, they got the Punk sound down. A shame that sound just makes for awful sounding drivel.
Rock the House - Yet ANOTHER highlight of the album. The beat and sample they use here are just amazing, compliments the vocal performance incredibly well.
19-2000 - Favorite track of the album, holds a lot of nostalgia for me. There was this one super old PC webgame were you could drive around this sandbox in the Gorillaz Jeep while this song played on loop 3 or 4 times. Memories aside, it's a fun song to groove to.

Post Listen:
Man what a hard album to rate. I love the songs mentioned above, but man this album has some really low points I forgot about....

It's a very interesting album, as with anything the Gorillaz put out. Cool samples here and there, every song has such a unique identity, everything displays the labor of love which makes this band special. This being their first album though, compared to their later works it has this rough, unpolished feel about it that I think drags it down a bit. They were still trying to find their stride here, so they're a bit shaky and uncertain on their feet.

Truly a tough choice between a 3 and a 4. I think I'll give 'em a 4, simply because this is their only album on here, and all of their later works are absolutely great. Give Plastic Beach a listen if this is your first Gorillaz exposure!! 4/5

Pre Listen:
I've heard of The Cure, but I'm racking my brain to try and recall at least one song they've made, and I just can't do it. I've known of them for ages it seems, but I really can't name one song they've made. Ah well, no expectations as a result I guess?

Notable Tracks:
The Hanging Gardens - Album started to really lose me here. These songs blend together.

Post Listen:
This album felt like something your brain might conjure up if you were going through a heavy Smiths and Oingo Boingo time of your life, and had a fever above 102 degrees Fahrenheit.

Strange album. Wasn't the biggest fan of it honestly, but I didn't hate it or anything about it specifically. I think my biggest issue with it was the heavier, slow droning guitar and drums got a little repetitive after a while. The vocalist too was incredibly meh, just started feeling the samsies between every song. Album feels like how depression makes ones brain work; sluggish, uncomfortable, tired, and grey. I figure that's what they were going for, given the albums title and lyrical subject matters, but it's just not the sort of music I look for.

There is no "Cure" for a Pornography addiction, other than having the strength of will to quit looking for it. Thankfully, it doesn't take too much strength to stop listening to this album. 2/5

Pre Listen:
The day I got this album, I also was scheduled for emergency life-saving surgery due to appendicitis. Somehow, I looked forward to listening to this album *less* than a surgery that'll leave me in a great deal of physical pain. I disliked the last White Stripes album I listened to that much. Bottom-of-the-barrel expectations here.

Notable Tracks:
Seven Nation Army - Wow, the big hit of this album. Worlds most simplistic bassline that appeals to all the fruit flies of the world. I think this song is so fucking overrated. Overplayed to hell and back.
Little Acorns - I made it to this song before checking out and just giving up. I just can't do it. I hate this band so fucking much.

Post Listen:
I gave the last album by The White Stripes I got on here (Get Behind Me Satan) a 2/5, because while I hated the sound, I recognized them as talented enough musicians, and figured I shouldn't let personal bias influence my decisions.

I've since remembered this is *my* damn project, and if *I* fuckin hate it, fuck em! Their sound is just so goddamn annoying on a deeply personal level. They're so....theater kid coded? It's hard for me to describe why I dislike them so much because again, as musicians, there's not anything necessarily awful about the way they play. No glaring mistakes, no asinine musical decisions, but when their sound hits my ears it's causing psychological damage. Everything about them just draws out negative feelings from me.

Maybe it's cause this shits Hipster Music. Not Hippies like the peace-and-love psychedelia loveable dirtbag type, the despicable consumerist Hipster new-gen iPhone and Starbucks with a beanie and cat stickers type. Buzzwords! 1/5

Pre Listen:
Heard of these fellas, and I've listened to some of their stuff before. I remember thinking they're alright, if not a bit goofy. Mostly no expectations.

Notable Tracks:
Killing In The Name - The classic of the album. Always makes me think of when the BBC had them, asked them not to swear during their performance, and well...went about as expected. Great song.

Post Listen:
Better than I thought honestly. I like the passion they put in to every song.

You can really feel the discontent and anger here. Compared to other protest albums of the time, this one really feels quite genuine to me. It has some goofy moments, keyly owing to the vocalists performance at times and his higher-pitched voice compared to other heavier rock albums. That said, he still does a great job, the lyrical work specifically being damn good. I wouldn't go so far to call it 'poetic', but it does it's job well enough, it talks politics. The instrumental work is quite good too, they got the guitar wailing and shredding to perfectly fit the overall tone of the album.

What does one do when their Rage against the Machine becomes *part* of the Machine. They got hella popular off this album, and I wonder if them becoming part of the industry pissed them off. 4/5

Pre Listen:
Oh god, I audibly groaned reading this one's title and seeing the release date. The album cover looks stupid. Based on everything before me, guessing this one is gonna be 50+ minutes of dumbasses complaining about their lives with the worlds shittiest guitar and drums backed behind it. I'll issue a formal apology if I'm wrong.

Notable Tracks:
The Voodoo People - Oh this is where that one electronic bit I've heard before comes from. Specifically from around 2:25, I swear I've this bit in some sort of shitpost before.
3 Kilos - Best track on here, idk if I'd call it a "favorite" but I enjoy the samples the most here.
Claustrophobic Sting - Least favorite track, what a weak way to end an album. That Alvin and the Chipmunks ass sample repeated dozens of times is annoying as shit. Other vocal samples used are also horribly cringe.

Post Listen:
I hereby formally apologize for being assumptive and negative in regards to the band "The Prodigy" before listening to their album "Music for the Jilted Generation". I was incorrect about them being a mediocre, dime-a-dozen rock band from the 90's. Instead they were a slightly above average beat-and-sample band from the 90's.

It was better than I expected, but only because it was different from what I expected. They still fall into the same pitfalls many beat and sample groups find themselves in; songs go on for too long, samples grow stale, some things work better than others, and everything desperately needs to be cleaned up. I never understand why these sorts of groups go "Yeah yeah lets sample a baby crying or glass breaking, and loop that shit 1000 times, it'll be great!" It's never great, it really never is. Regardless, some songs would be enjoyable to club to I guess, but most are mid.

Filing this album under "Things that probably sound better on Stimulants". 3/5

Pre Listen:
I've heard of The Zombies, and I'm almost certain I've listened to one of their albums before, but it was so long ago I'm really not sure. I couldn't name any of their songs off the top of my head. I don't have any of their stuff on my playlist, which means I probably didn't like them too much when I first listened to them. Lowish expectations, but only by a little bit.

Notable Tracks:
A Rose for Emily - Feels like it belongs right next to the likes of Eleanor Rigby. I like this one.
Beechwood Park - Favorite track, man that psychedelic guitar and keyboard is fantastic. This is textbook psychedelia, this is what the genre is supposed to sound like. Just takes you away man.
Brief Candles - Another great highlight, I love the progression into the bridge. The bridge especially is quite nice.
Time of the Season - I recognize this one, didn't know it was the Zombies. Classic track, very nice, adding to my playlist.

Post Listen:
That was much better than expected, I guess I either mistook this group for something else, or listened to a different album.

This album to me feels like a super early prototype of something between College Rock and Emo Rock. It's the lyrical content and the overall compositions, not all of the songs but the majority of them. As for the sound itself, it's good. They have good harmonies, good synergy, and the pianist especially is full of talent. I'll likely add a few to my playlist, and will come back to the album as well. There are a few songs on here that feel more out of place, they could've done some polish work here and there, especially on some of the vocals, but overall it's a wonderful collection of music.

Another band that feels right at home amongst the late 60's British Takeover legends. 4/5

Pre Listen:
Haven't heard of these fellas. I can't really gleam anything from the album cover, band title, or even album title. Probably gonna be some sort of heavier rock genre..? First album I got no expectations for in a while.

Notable Tracks:
Trouble Down South - This is awful, least favorite track. This feels like something that would spawn from a group project in a music/theater class from highschool.

Post Listen:
What in the British ""music"" was that.

I have no fucking clue what they were trying to cook here. It felt like the musical version of a hoarders house. Too many genres, too much random shit, but minimal value underneath all the random crap. The vocal work was the weakest part, one of many albums were I wish I could shush the singer until they left the recording studio. The guitarist and drummer have some potential, they were the best elements of most songs, but nothing more than just potential. Normally I like fiddles in a lot of songs, but this particular fiddler was not it. There was no cohesion between songs, and even within songs, minimal cohesion between musical elements. Overall the album was about as palatable as the food that comes from the same region it spawned from. I disliked every song.

This album is definitely either a 2 or a 1. I'll go with 1, but it's a high 1 because isolated elements of the album are just alright, if that's any consolation. There's just nothing here that holds any of it together.

Album left me fearing what was next, and needing whisky to forget everything I just heard. 1/5

Pre Listen:
First Elton John album on here, neat! I got a couple of his main hits on my playlist, Rocket Man, Crocodile Rock, Yellow Brick Road, etc. I don't think I've listened to a full album of his other than Yellow Brick Road, and even that one was years ago. Higher expectations than usual.

Notable Tracks:
Tiny Dancer - One of those hits I already had on my playlist. It's a fun song, good sound to it. My favorite track of the album too, likely from pre-exposure bias though.
Indian Sunset - Least favorite track due to the lyrical content. Just kinda feels like a weird thing for a pasty white dude to be yappin about.

Post Listen:
Very cinematic album, it feels like a cross between a rock album and a musical. There's a story somewhere along here, but I had trouble following it.

I'm struggling to find a way to describe how I feel about this album. It's good, everything about it from a production perspective is really good. Elton's voice is great, and the stories each song conveys is good too. There's just something in it that's not bringing it up to a perfect 5 for me. I can't identify what that thing is, but I reckon it's just musical taste on a personal level. As a result, I don't really click with a lot of the songs here. It's a bit frustrating, because as I'm listening to it, my brain is telling me "You should really be liking these songs, this is wonderful" but my heart can only muster back a "meh".

Maybe I'm just a Madman across the water from Elton, on the other side of the river. Regardless of how much I personally like the music, I think this album deserves praise, it is indisputably well done. 4/5

Pre Listen:
2nd Dire Straits album I've gotten on here. The last was "Brothers in Arms" and I remember it being very inconsistent in its quality. Had some really great songs, and some really poor ones, so I gave it a balanced 3/5. Hoping this one will be more consistent.

Notable Tracks:
Sultans of Swing - Classic of the album, I like it. It's not something I could listen to on repeat, I'd get sick of it pretty quick, but it's alright. Enjoyable enough.
Wild West End - Favorite track. The addition of a piano is much needed for a lot of these more flavorless tracks. Works well.

Post Listen:
Well, it was certainly more consistent, so I guess I got what I want. Sadly, it was consistently more mid, so I really need to be more careful to what I wish for.

Really felt like generic bar rock to me. Sort of thing if I heard live, I'd enjoy, but outside of that it's background music. It's decent background music, not bad, but really *just* decent. Everything played decently well, but nothing sticks out. No lyrics, no specific instrument, it's all decent. If I had to choose, the guitar was the best aspect, but even then, it's mostly just smooth playing.

It's a very plain album. I'll give it a very plain rating, and an ultimately rather plain review. 3/5

Pre Listen:
That's unbelievable, I got this album right after reviewing Abbey Road. What a leap that'll be. I used to have a few songs from this album on my playlist, but after having listened to them a couple of times, I found myself growing absolutely sick of them. From memory, this album is John making an ass of himself for 10 songs, while using half of them to throw a temper tantrum over the Beatles' split.

Notable Tracks:
Imagine - The most popular track of the album, for mixed reasons. The message it carries on a surface level is understandable, acceptable even, but coming from the mouth of John Lennon, it comes across as unbelievably hypocritical. I keep this song on my playlist, because the dopamine I get from skipping it every time is better than anything I got from listening to this album.
Gimme Some Truth - Closest thing to a favorite track I have on here. It goes on for too long to the point it gets repetitive, but if it was shorter, I might've actually really enjoyed it.
How Do You Sleep? - Embarrassing to listen to. My god John's such a fucking crybaby man.
Oh Yoko! - Least favorite track. I really, really don't want to hear about how much John wants to turn Yoko on. He also clearly didn't even really love her all that much, because he cheated on her multiple times throughout their relationship!

Post Listen:
I don't know why John, and other UK rock musicians around this period, were all so obsessed with attempting to replicate American blues-and-bar style rock. It sucks. They really chose the worst of American music from that time to try and copy, and they don't even do it well.

Piss poor sound aside, this album reeks of an insecure narcissist. Every song on here is filled to the brim with "I, Me, Mine" type statements. It's all about John, because John Lennon is the only thing John can imagine in his walnut-sized head. It's regrettable because I do think John was a musical genius, greater than the rest of his contemporaries in his heyday, but all the Heroine, LSD, Cocaine, and Pot completely melted his faculties. All of his work post-Beatles is just so boring, repetitive, lame or gross. The ramblings of a borderline schizophrenic man.

Don't do drugs kids. 2/5

Pre Listen:
Well well well, if it isn't the Beatle's most critically acclaimed album of all time. Yeah, I've listened to it. Yeah, I love it, I already know it's gonna be a 5/5. Yeah, I'm gonna gush over it, adding nothing to what's already been said hundreds of times about it as is.

If there ever was an album that's overrated, this is it. The issue is, *it's just that good*. I don't think it's their best work however, but I do think it's their most digestible album after they stopped playing pop rock, and started doing their own thing.

Notable Tracks:
Come Together - Amazing start to an album, and my #1 go-to song for Karaoke. Fun lyrics with an incredibly catchy melody, which is incredibly and easily recognizable. Shame on John Lennon for somewhat plagiarizing Chuck Berry on this one though.
Something - My 2nd favorite Beatles romance song. The violins in the background bump this song up from good to stellar.
Maxwell's Silver Hammer - Least favorite track on the album, Paul is a madman for making them do 100+ takes on this goofy ah thing. The lyrics are just eh. The inclusion of the synth and anvil is neat, but overall, it's not the best of songs.
Octopus's Garden - Another major highlight, feels like a natural sequel to 'Yellow Submarine'. I was fortunate enough to watch this song played live by Ringo, the absolute lad.
I Want You (She's So Heavy) - One of the best Lennon songs out there. So much anger in the melody, it's the Beatle's edgiest song, and goes hard as fuck.

The Long One (Consisting of 'You Never Give Me Your Money' to 'The End') - Ahh the magnum opus of Abbey Road. My favorite part of Abbey Road, the flow feels so perfect, it's a song that's absolute cinema. I struggle to name a favorite part, each has something so special about it- You Never Give Me Your Money's lyrics are phenomenal, as are Carry That Weight's, and Ringo's drum solo on The End is legendary. The energy in the Bathroom Window portion is beyond hype, and all the short ditty's in-between have so much charm. God I love it.

Post Listen:
There may never be another month on this project than September of 2026 that will give me so many bangers to review.

This is one of the greatest albums of all time. Just banger after banger that can be relistened to over and over again, and never grow stale. So much meaning in some of the lyrics, so much polish on the instrumental work. All produced while the Beatles were going through domestics between each other every session essentially. Maybe it's one of the greatest Beatles albums because John Lennon quit halfway through. Fuck that guy.

For their last album recorded together, they made sure to leave with a bang. The End. 5/5

Pre Listen:
Outside of the conspiratorial nature of 2Pacs death, I honestly don't know much about the guy. I haven't listened to any of his work, but from my understanding he's considered one of the original legendary 90's rappers who shaped the genre as we know it today. I'm really not a fan of post 90's rap, so expectations are a bit lower than usual.

Notable Tracks:

Post Listen:
Tupac's voice is a lot deeper than I thought it was. The album though just about fell within expectations, if not just a tiny bit better than I thought it would be.

Unlike other 'Gangster' rap albums I've listened to, this one had slightly more eloquent lyrics, with a decent message behind them every now and again. Despite that, the average song was still about the big 3 things every gangster rap album is about:
- I'm tough
- My ops suck
- I got money and women
it just gets boring after a while, especially if the back-tracks are nothing but smooth beats. Nothing necessarily wrong with smooth beats, just that again, it gets boring after a while.

Get well soon, 2pac. 3/5

EDIT - I forgot to hit 'rate' on here, and forgot to put notable tracks on. I don't feel like relistening to this one, so I'll trust my judgement when I first wrote this out.

Pre Listen:
Nine Inch Nails is yet another more modern band I've heard of, but in a sort of infamous context similar to Slipknot. I don't know why my association with them is negative, and I can't name any of their songs off the top of my head, but I got a gut feeling I'll recognize one at some point.

Notable Tracks:
Mr. Self Destruct - There's no fucking way people actually like this. This is just noise with awful audio mixing. I'm giving this album 4 more songs, and if they all sound like this, I'm not wasting my time on this garbage.
Heresy - Nine Inch Nails *will* be going to hell, but not for comitting heresy. Rather, it will be for the high crime of exposing people to such a miserable sound.
Closer - 4th song I gave it. Didn't get any better. I recognize this one actually, and I hate it. What a piece of shit album!

Post Listen:
9 Inch Nails? More like 9 Nails on a Chalkboard! Downward Spiral? Yeah, this albums making me spiral!

I'm sure no one has ever made those jokes before. Stupidity aside, this was trash. Edgy nonsense with messy instrumentation, for the sake of being edgy and messy. I've expressed my distaste for albums like this in prior reviews of mine, summarily I just don't think that music which intentionally sounds bad is anything other than just....bad. I don't hold nearly enough hatred for myself or this lovely planet to get anything out of the self-defeating lyrics. The only compliment I want to give is that it has some pretty good dark-synth moments, before drowning them out with shiet.

Music for suicidal people. Not because suicidal people relate to it, but because they don't realize listening to this crap is what got them suicidal in the first place. Save your ears, save your life, and pass this one by.1/5

Pre Listen:
Never heard of this group nor album, but based on the year and release date, I'm expecting some zany psychedelic rock. How zany will determine how much I like it, but there's no way an album with such a title will be even remotely serious.

Notable Tracks:
Animal Zoo | Mr. Skin - Tied for my favorite albums on the track. I love the energy these songs have with them, absolute bops. Reminds me of the Kinks at their strongest.
Love Has Found a Way - Least favorite track. I feel like this song embodies the worst stereotypes of this sort of psychedelic rock. In an attempt to sound unique and interesting, it forgot to sound good.
Space Child - Another highlight of the album, it's got that psychedelic spacey sound down. The piano on here is goated.

Post Listen:
There was a lot of interesting things on this album, a lot of worked great, and overall the energy this album has in it is wonderful. That said, a good number of things fell flat here, but overall it was a positive experience.

I noticed the influence of Hendrix, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, and even a bit of the Rolling Stones in here, but only influence alone. Their sound was unique and consistant enough to have their own feeling. The strongest parts of the album were the key three ingredients any good rock album has got to have; their bass, drums, and guitar playing were all great. The additional instruments included in many songs were wonderful too. Where I think the album struggled a bit was the more experimental sounds included; the odd distortion, back tracking, sampled noises, etc. Sometimes they worked fabulously, like on Animal Zoo, other times it just felt out of place and added nothing.

That said, overall the Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus were positive ones. I'd dream with him again, I like his Spirit. 4/5

Pre Listen:
A Japanese album..? I like the album cover a lot, it's giving me Earthbound Vibes. I can't really discern what genre this might be, but the album art is cool enough to make me receptive to whatever it's got inside. Elevated expectations.

Notable Tracks:

Post Listen:
I was tricked by the album cover. This wasn't a Japanese album; it was one by some white dudes with no sauce.

It's a bit of an exaggeration to say they had *no* sauce. There were some good moments, but overall, it was pretty lame. This is the purest Indie-rock album I think I've heard on here to date, it's so indie a lot of the songs could be utilized in a forgettable indie Earthbound-inspired turn-based RPG, that come a dime a dozen. To me however, despite listening through to it *twice* I just couldn't force my focus upon the album, it couldn't hook me in at all. Stayed as background music despite my best efforts. The drumming was the most solid part of the album. A lot of the vocal work was either too goofy or avante-garde, and I felt was the weakest part.

Next time don't make your album cover misleading. 2/5

Pre Listen:
MIHEL YACKSON?!??! Friggin sweet.

I don't consider myself a super-fan for good ol' Michael, but I like his music enough to feel hyped about listening to this. I got Thriller on vinyl, but outside of that I don't think I've listened to any of his other albums in full. I'm certain I'll recognize at least one song on here though despite that.

Notable Tracks:
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough | Rock with You | Off the Wall - Generational classics right here, which hold up unbelieveably well in the modern day, and likely for decades to come. I've heard them dozens of times, but they haven't grown even close to stale yet. Maybe I'll stop enjoying them one day, but until then, I simply haven't gotten enough :).
Workin' Day and Night - Favorite track of the album. First and foremost because I didn't recognize it and as such it's fresh to me, but secondly because I love the sound. That slap-bass is amazing.
She's Out of My Life - Least favorite track. I don't like slow songs like this, they got me cringing and completely decimate the flow and vibe of the album.

Post Listen:
Great album, full of classics, thanks Michael!

September really has been the month of bangers for this project, up to now. Michael's voice is of course the highlight of the album, smooth and silky as always, milk chocolate to my ears. The disco pop sound of the music is incredibly enjoyable as well, oozing with nostalgia and positive vibes. Almost every song succeeds in getting me pumped and feeling optimistic, jiving along. My only complaint for the album is the least favorite song, but I don't think 1 bad song drags down the entire album, especially when weighed against the other heavy hitters of this piece of art.

Michael's music has a unique quality in being able to be played in almost every positive function and be met with joy and energy, despite the vibes. Love him for that. 5/5