Reviews by tjehl

Never actually listened to SZA’s debut before. Easy to hear why she became the star that she is today.

Great vocals, likewise productions and a runtime that isn’t as excessive as so many of her genre colleagues. Everything isn’t for me, but I didn’t expect it to be either.

Willie Nelson is great at expressing himself and creating a mood. I also like the idea of Wilson moving into, for him, almost controversial territory on Stardust.

It’s rarely THAT exciting, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Loretta Lynn and country music is almost synonymous. Lynn is a great storyteller and the short runtime makes it hard not to want more when it’s over.

There’s (insert genre) and the there’s Icelandic (insert same genre).

Post-punk is no exception.

Björk’s vocal is, not surprisingly, powerful and easily the most recognizable thing about this album. Whenever Benediktsson takes the wheel, you more or less wait for Björk to reemerge.

If it wasn’t for the horrendous cover of “Born To Be Wild”, this would have been a 3 / 5.

I prefer The Cult and Ian Astbury over a lot of hard rock acts, but as with the rest of the genre it’s too much of the same and not enough truly memorable songs to really stick out.

Few, if any, is on the level of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan when it comes to the world of qawwali music.

Devotional Songs is partly inspired by some Western traditions which makes for thrilling listen that never fails to amaze you.

If I were a member of Talking Heads, I too would use my off time to record albums in The Bahamas.

Who could've known that the sound of The Beatles breaking up would be this lo-fi?

The Residents are one of the most cleverly disguised pop bands to ever exist.

If you don’t rock along to “Constantinople”, are you really any fun?

It’s hard not to get a 5-star rating when you decide to both open and close an album with “My Hey, Hey My”.

A sort of best of live album comprised of songs from several different shows only to then be overdubbed in a studio - and no one knows exactly to which degree? I’ll do my best to pretend this is just a regular live album.

I don’t actually care that much for hard rock, but when Thin Lizzy is at their best on songs like “Massacre” and “The Boys Are Back In Town” they’re an undeniably great live (or studio?) band.

I was surprised to find that I wasn’t bothered by the length, there’s just too many songs I don’t find that interesting.

So much better than their debut album, which they released less than half a year before this.

The songwriting is way more interesting, the instrumentation feels more alive and the overall vibe is just day and night - though it's still obviously the same band.

I'm almost handing If You're Feeling Sinister 3 stars, but the number of songs stuck in my head after the first listen makes me feel generous.

I had completely forgotten that "Eple" appears on this album.

Very dreamy and catchy debut from the cold North.
I would listen to this again before most of the other electronic albums on this list.

I remembered this as being a lot better than their debut (which I really, really enjoyed, FYI).

It's drastically different, no doubt about it - but I don't know if it is THAT much better?

Even if it isn't, it's still a great record deserving of its praise.

I think I subconsciously like this better because it is Daft Punk. There’s a lot of really great house on Homework including a few of their greatest and most recognizable songs.

I still find the runtime of almost 74 minutes excessive - and I know that they went on to produce even better albums in the future.

Quite the sound for an album recorded in ‘71-‘72. Love the proto-punk/garage sound and the songwriting never ceases to be fresh and fun.

There are enough good songs on Manassas to make it a great album.
Unfortunately they’re drowned in just as many unnecessary ones.

Stills and co went full-out here - it’s too much and the end result is a way too long album and not enough outstanding ideas to warrant it.

Timbaland’s production is great, Timberlake’s vocals are smooth as silk and the songwriting on songs like “Cry Me A River” is as good as pop gets.

There’s way too few of songs like that to make the runtime make sense - I’m essentially lacking the higher level of creativity present on some of his later albums.

It’s not really that bad, it being here is just not justified.

Quite pretty but ultimately forgettable chamber pop album.

I actually liked a few of the songs, but even if I listened to this album 10 times, I probably wouldn’t immediately guess “Lambchop” if someone put on a random song from it.

If you’re familiar with story of Rumours (and let’s face it, you are), then it’s obvious that the fact that I’m able to listen to it today is a miracle - no less.

Easiest 5 I’ve awarded an album so far.