Reviews by suspiciousnumber

This is a fun album. I'm not sure how much new ground it broke in the funk genre, but I don't need to have my mind blown to get my rocks off, and this album seems much more focused on the latter. It's sexy and dirty and always interesting enough. Her voice is exactly angelic, but she serves up plenty of personality to cover the rough patches

4/5

It's a Ween album. They do a bunch of different styles and do them well, and it's all just a bit off in a fun way

4/5

The songwriting isn't always my style, but I love his voice. He sounds like rustic folk Thome Yorke. Production is great and brings out the character in his voice so well. Really compelling work, despite not being from a genre I generally get much out of

4/5

I listened to this whole album and didn't really have a single thought about it. Muse is one of those bands I just don't really connect with. They are very competent musicians, and there's absolutely nothing about it I find objectionable, at least for this album, but it doesn't really make me take notice either. I'm not a prog guy, and their work certainly shares a fence with prog, if you don't want to call it prog directly. I can see why people like this, but it doesn't fit what I'm looking for

3/5

Folk is not generally my type of music, but god is his voice compelling. Lyrics are solid, and the music is stripped down in a lot of places, but it is very well mixed to bring out the character in his voice. It not necessarily different than anything I've heard before, but it is beautiful, and finding new sounds doesn't always have to be the purpose of musical production

4/5

Okay, what are we doing here, folks? I think this is a fine, later day Rolling Stones album, but why are we still putting Rolling Stones albums on this list? There's so much wild stuff that's been created in the last decade, but it's like we're stuck in the past. I feel like it's the same impulse that is causing us to remake movies and TV shows from our childhood. This album didn't change anything for rock music. I doubt it even changed anything for the Rolling Stones. I haven't been doing the user submitted list for all that long, and I've gotten at least 10 albums that would be a more meaningful entry to this list than this album.

2/5 I don't think the album is bad, but this feels entirely pointless, and I'm mad it's on this list

Honestly, I'm pretty torn on this one. I keep wanting to give it 3 stars and just be done with it, but every time I listen in to what's happening, it's interesting. It's like everything is not quite what it should be, but in a way that fits together in a meaningful way. One thing I do know for sure is that the people who upload albums to YouTube and then stick 3 songs from another artist in the middle for no apparent reason should be put in jail. For some reason, the people that try to sell me cryptocurrency in between songs don't bother me as much, I guess because it's generally just one interruption. Regardless, her voice takes a bit of getting used to, but it's not bad by any means

4/5 Fuck it. I'm not exactly sure what musical statement this album is making, but it is making a statement, and it works

In some ways, this is tredding on well trodden ground for the Chemical brothers. On the other hand, it's just great to hear a TB-303 in this godforsaken year of our lord 2026. I just love that squelchy goodness. Really fun overall, not overwhelming and not at the heights of their classic period, but we deserve fun dance music and the Chemical Brothers have given it to us

4/5

I didn't think terribly much of this at first, since I thought it was just two women singing and rapping over a backing band. The fact that they're doing both vocals and instrumentals definitely makes this a lot cooler. I think parts of it feel generic, but overall it's a cool album. The music is solid, and the harmonies are a nice touch. They seem like they would be fun to see live

4/5

I listened to this one a couple of times, and I like it, but it never really captures my attention either. It's a fun, competently made album, but I just want it to have something more that makes it different from everything else, and that's where I generally feel like it falls a bit short.

3/5 Really torn between this and a 4, but ultimately I think it falls just short. Good, but not great

This album was really cool. I thought initially that it was going to be another recent pop album, but that is not what this is. Solid metal music with excellent music to fuel them. I feel like it gets a bit samey after a while. I waffled a bit on a 3 or a 4, but ultimately it didn't hold my interest too well, and it started to feel like a 2005 album with a fresh coat of paint on it. Good, and definitely with some great moments, but it didn't quite do it for me

3/5

Me before listening to this album: I'm glad there's new albums on the original list, but serving up female pop vocalist after female pop vocalist is getting a bit samey, and it's hard to appreciate each one as an individual

Charli xcx: Here's a gothic pop album based on a romance novel from the western canon that features a member of the Velvet Underground on the first track

Me: I stand corrected

5/5 She is one of the most interesting people making music in these godforsaken days. I'm about to own this album. I'm actually mad that I still have half of it to listen to because I want to hear the first track again, but this shit is incredible

This one grew on me a bit while reading the wikipedia page. I think I would have found this a little less interesting if she hadn't taken the approach of trying to make all this synthesizer music without using a DAW for anything other than recording. Really cool, and it helped make some of the music make a bit more sense to me. Overall a neat album that she clearly put a lot of work into. The influences within electronic feel pretty broad too; this sounds like a lot of different things

4/5

This album is an interesting choice to add to the list. I think it's good, though I like When We All Fall Asleep better. This one just didn't feel like there was anything in particular for me to latch onto relative to her other albums. It's good, but I don't feel like any of these songs are ever going to be stuck in my head the way some of her earlier work did

3/5

This is certainly not what I expected a band/artist called Jockstrap to sound like. It's much stranger and certainly more feminine than I anticipated. Really cool stuff. She has a great voice, and it fits perfectly over the synth pop music

4/5

Okay, I've listened to this album like 3 times now and not written anything about it, but it's solid if unspectacular

3/5

I genuinely don't know what this is. I don't know what genre it is. I don't know what the influences are, I don't know who this is for.

It's fine. It's French. It's got some 80s electronic energy slathered over the completely unearned ennui of the 1990s. Communism has fallen and now none of us know who we are. We will dance until the birds peck at our bones. We will eat baguettes and smoke cigarettes and watch the firemen beat up the police. All of this turns out to be the dream of a 14 year old girl. Some gross French guy hits on her

3/5

Well, this both sounds and looks like 1991. It's a nice little time capsule, though I'm not sure it's particularly significant in music history. That's fine, though. I don't always feel like that's the purpose of the user generated list. This feels like one of those talented bar bands that were able to make it in that early 90s push (to the extent they were able to make it, I've never heard of them before). Solid music, good harmonies. The songs are overall forgettable, but they're all done well and it's a very pleasant listen

3/5

I don't know about this one. I can understand the concept, but the subject matter is tough for me. This is such a fraught subject, and especially given everything that's happened since this album's release that could be traced back to Waco and other topics of this album. I don't think this is necessarily a frivolous take on the topic, but all the same, as someone who remembers Waco from childhood, it just doesn't feel like a good idea.

The music is good. They certainly bring the spirit of Jesus Christ Superstar to this album. I just don't want a poppy album about Waco. Not in 2026

3/5

I felt at first that the atonal nature of the sing/talking vocalist was going to grate on me after a while, but the songs are fucking great, and he makes his thing work in all of them. It feels like a really fresh version of punk/postpunk that stays rooted in the genre's history. Really well crafted album that feels deceptively simple, like they've worked really hard to make this look effortless

4/5