Reviews by suspiciousnumber

This album is fine, but I don't think J-pop is particularly for me. Something about it always leaves me cold. That's too bad, since I've enjoyed a lot of Japanese music I've heard, especially things in the synthesizer realm. I feel like the vocals are just too processed, so that they come out sounding the same song after song, album after album, band after band. It's a clean and shiny sound, but it doesn't feel personal to me

3/5

I'm a little split on this album. On the one hand, it didn't make much of an impression on me when I first listened to it. On the other hand, I fucking love it when alt rock bands from this era just crank the overdrive pedal all the way up and try to play loud enough that you can hear the melody. It's a fun album, well-produced, and it really captures the sound of the era well.

Fuck it. 4 stars

These songs are fun, but the gimmick of recording every album on a shitty boombox wears thin pretty fast. I'm glad they abandoned it after this album, but I wish they'd abandoned it before this album so I can enjoy the production on the album, rather than lamenting it

3/5

This was a very pleasant album to listen to. She's a good songwriter, and her lyrics are pretty accessible. I'll say, this kept reminding of various female vocalists/bands from the 90s, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I think there will always be a place for work by singer/songwriters in this mold, despite the fact that I rarely get super enthusiastic over work like this

4/5

This is an interesting album. Sometimes it sound like a soft rock album that somehow escaped the 1970s. Other times, it steps way out of that mode and does cool, weird stuff. I don't necessarily get it, but I think it's kinda cool when he explores a bit more with his music

3/5

I can't say that I really got this album. It's pleasant to listen to, and I could see how someone would like it, but it didn't seem particularly significant to me. The album also went by weirdly slowly for me. Like, I thought I was at least halfway through and found that I was still on song 5. Not bad at all, but not something that grabbed me

3/5

This album was pretty cool overall, though it rarely rose above background music while I was listening to it. It's a solid album for 1993, though it was not easy for me to understand the significance of this particular album

3/5

This album is a fun listen. I'm not sure if I would characterize it as particularly groundbreaking for 2015, but the album sounds great. I really enjoy it when psychedelic artists cross over into more dancey stuff. The production is great. Very clear sound overall, but with a little grit left in

4/5

This isn't my favorite Primus album, since I've always gotten more into Frizzle Fry, but this album came out in that era and is similar in many respects. I feel like a lot of these songs lack the urgency and intensity that seems to exist throughout Frizzle Fry, but it may also just be that the grooves aren't as groovy here. Still, that's largely a nitpick because this album is really fun and features a ton of great work by Les and the boys

4/5

You know what, I didn't really want to like this album at first, but these fuckers won me over with their enthusiasm

4/5

I wasn't really familiar with how dub worked as a genre before listening to this. Granted, it was because I was struggling to understand why this album was significant, but still.

This album is kinda cool. I like the extensive use of delay that they seem to lose control of every once in a while. On the other hand, there's lots of times where it feels like nothing is happening

3/5 Pretty solid album to listen to if you're too stoned to change it when it comes on

Is Iceland just the land of haunting beautiful music? It's so weird that so much great stuff came out of that island in the 90s and 00s. This album is stunning, just powerful and ethereal the whole way through. Definitely one that I want to hear again, perhaps while strolling through one of Iceland's many haunted forests with my gnome friend that I met while removing the curse from a pair of socks in an enchanted steam

5/5

This album is really cool at times, and the symphonic approach to metal definitely works when well-executed. There are some songs where it starts to feel samey, but that usually doesn't last for long before the album grips you again. I don't know why folks from Scandinavia like metal so much, but god bless em, they know how to do it right

4/5

God, the insane number of hours I've spent driving around stoned as fuck and listening to this album. If we're going strictly by nostalgia, this album is a solid 5 stars, even though I got sick of it by the end of my time in college. We'll see how this album feels in 2025.

It's hard to listen to this one with fresh ears. Overall it sounds really good, and I was shocked to find out that it was produced by a member of the Butthole Surfers. The lyrics are often not great, but not terrible either (I'd put them slightly above RHCP in terms of quality). This album is certainly less of a cover album than 40oz was, which is good, but I like listening to that album more. I feel like the highs are really high on this album, the overall quality is pretty good, but then at times the band sounds like they're not trying very hard.

4/5, but far closer to 3/5 than my teenage self would have felt comfortable with

This album has an interesting story, since it was leaked in 2013 and then officially released in 2019. It's weird, since the album still sounds pretty modern, and probably sounded pretty crazy in 2013. I wish I could have heard what this album would have been when it was finished and properly mixed and mastered, though what we have here is still really cool.

It makes me sad, though, that the leak had such a negative impact on the artist that he withdrew from making music just as he was starting to impact the mainstream.

4/5

I love this album, and I got to see him perform on the tour for it. I'm not sure that this is the Bon Iver album that I would put on this list, since I think his first two LPs are both incredibly beautiful, but this album is certainly more experimental than his previous work. The execution is excellent as well. The album is a bit front-loaded in terms of quality, but this is still one of those albums I let play all the way through

5/5

I lost my review for this one, but the music is really cool and also pretty variable. I think I'd be able to appreciate the poetry a little better if I spoke more Spanish, but that's really on me

4/5

This album is pretty cool overall. The music never wows me all that much, but the harmonies are really nice. It feels a bit uneven at times, but there are a lot of great moments

3/5

This album takes a little while to get going, but it's well-crafted, and you can groove to it once it picks up a bit. It's interesting that these two were original members of King Crimson. This album feels kinda like prog-folk, which I would assume that I hate, but it's well done here.

4/5

I've heard about this album a lot, since it was apparently the album of the summer, but I haven't listened to it now. It's always fun when a pop album turns out to be well-constructed. Charli xcx certainly has odd pop sensibilities, but it really works here. The music is fun, and her voice sounds wonderful over it. The album is really versatile in terms of its sound too

4/5