Reviews by suspiciousnumber

I have listened to this album multiple times and not written a word about it, but it's cool, I just can't risk listening to it again to write the review and going another day without writing anything

4/5

This one was a little hard to rate overall. It sounded generic a lot of times, but it's also more than 20 years old, and may have influenced many things in the meantime. Overall, I wish it stood out just a bit more. It's very relaxing, but it doesn't grab my attention the way I like an album to

3/5

Wow, this is a hard album to put your finger on. The musical styles change quickly from one to the next. Sometimes it sounds like an industrial dance punk album, sometimes it feels like a hip hop album. Overall, though, it all works together. The music keeps it interesting. I'm always a little leery of the more recent albums that show up on this list, but this one felt like it belonged. You can hear some of the influences, but they are always doing their own thing

4/5

Every time I listen to this band, I completely memoryhole everything about them, such that I can never remember if I even like them, let alone what they sound like. It might be because their name is really stupid.

They sound like they're trying to do an impression of the 80s, but in a good way. Now, this makes no since, since this album came out in the 80s, but it's like they're assembling all these parts, the haunted reverb-soaked voice, the smooth synths, the generic 80s drums that competently failed to ruin most songs. I like this album. Whether or not my brain will ever know in any future moment that it exists is another matter.

4/5 Your name is dumb, but you make a hell of an album

I find this album a bit hard to describe, but I liked it overall. She has a beautiful voice, and the production really works well with it. The music is interesting enough, but isn't the main feature here. There were times when the album faded into the background a bit for me, but overall I really enjoyed it

4/5

I remember seeing this band on SNL back in the day, and finding them quite offputting (I was relatively young at the time, and also I'm a coward generally).

Coming back to this after so many years, I pretty much nailed it. This music if offputting, and I don't particularly like that dude's voice, and I find the whole thing scary.

In all seriousness, this album is a bit rough when it starts out, but I got into it more as it went. Sort of a Joy Division thing where you have to get over the sound of that dude's voice to really understand the music, but I think it's good overall

3/5 but the childhood version of me still cowers in the corner as I wait for Christina Applegate to return to the screen. My emerging sexuality will forever be confused by the powerful feelings that crystalize in this moment

What a weird and cool album. At times if feels like an Brian Eno ambient album, but then all of the sudden it will be a folk album. Really cool listen, and I want to check out more stuff from this dude or people (I don't remember how many constitute this band)

4/5

Well, I wasn't expecting to get a ska punk album, and I can't really say that it hit the spot for me unexpectedly either. It's fine. The production could be better, especially for an album made during this century. Fun, but overall unspectacular

3/5

This one was interesting, but hard to rate, since the music was all made well before the release year, and Wikipedia doesn't make it much clearer. She's got a great voice, and this is a style of music that I have very little background for. It's not something I would particularly pick out for myself, still, it feels significant

4/5

This is pretty fun modern country. He has a nice voice, and there's plenty of slide guitar, which I enjoy universally. Nothing crazy, but a very competently made album that is solid the whole way through

4/5

This album was cool and different. It works well as a metal album, but they are always doing interesting stuff on top of it. It feels like a lot of different influences within rock history coming together under the banner of metal to fucking rock our socks off

4/5 I can confirm that I am no longer wearing socks

This is a fun pop rock album. It's not mind-blowingly different than other things I've heard from this era or before, but it's fun and we are here to have fun after all

Great female vocals over poppy rock riffs. No need to overthink it

4/5

This album is cool. It sounds a little dated, but it's also from 1999. For some reason, I had a little trouble contextualizing this album with its contemporaries. I feel like it's good, but not mindblowing

3/5

I think this is a very solid album overall, but also not the type that speaks to me much on a personal level. Songs are well-crafted, though, with great backing music. A lot to appreciate, even if this isn't my style

4/5

I thought this was a cool concept that they executed really well. I could see how this would rub some folks the wrong way, but I thought the narration they used was really effective, and it complemented the music well. I'm excited to come back to this one some day

4/5

Well, klezmer music is certainly a change of pace. I liked this album, but I wish it would have featured the music more and his vocals less. He's a fine singer and he writes some interesting lyrics, but it feels weird to base your band around a type of music that is really energetic and fun, and then treating the album more like a folk album in terms of the lyrical approach. I liked it okay, but it was ultimately a bit of a disappointment because I just wanted to hear some fucking klezmer music

3/5

This album sounds a little more generic now because a lot of things have started to sound like it over the last decade and a half, but it is unquestionably innovative and influential. Musically, it is a very solid. I guess it's dubstep, or perhaps proto-dubstep, but there's plenty of other electronic genre influences here. Definitely one I want to come back to in the future

4/5

This album was good in parts, but it faded into the background a lot for me. Given the name, I thought it was going to be a lot wackier, but it ended up being pretty normal, which was uninspiring

3/5 good, just ultimately not as interesting as I was hoping for

I don't know that I would call this album outstanding, and I definitely enjoyed the previous Death in Vegas album that I heard more, but this was certainly the sweet spot for me today. I needed some goddamned wordless techno to get my work done, and praise be, it has been delivered. It's a fun album, not particularly mindblowing, but they definitely put more effort in than they needed to for an album who primary audience would be under the influence of ecstasy while evaluating its quality

3/5

This is a fun pop/electronic album that is just very well crafted. Each song is solid and they fit together well. Harmonies add a lot, but when is that not true?

4/5