Reviews by ultraclear

It's a rock album that didn't stick to my memory at all as I write the review two days later.

Probably the first hip hop thing that clocks in with this particular mild tempo, that I actually enjoyed instead of thinking was boring

DotA epic moments fan reel ass. A dispatch from that brief fever dream of an era where pop producers were making the talent get in on this "dubstep" thing that was sweeping the clubs. I like that she committed 110% to it, though. It shows its age more than most of her stuff, but that kinda makes me like it more.

I'd fully missed this one when it came out, and I really am floored by how much I liked it. I only recognized one song off of here and it's a pretty long album, but, like, most pop albums ("The Fame" absolutely included) have a problem where they're super long & everything that's not an iconic single is useless throwaway filler. This had way less of that.

Slid off my brain, two weeks later & I remember nothing about this one

Started as pretty decent sleepy music, but got more Generic Country as it went on

Music so dated that it's looped back around to being cool again

Another one where reading up on the context makes me feel vaguely guilty for not liking it very much

Moon Safari at home, which still comes out to a strong offering

Pretty decent country singer-songwriter work. People have been sending in pretty good ones with this kind of thing

I am so goddamn tired of hardcore on here

I mean it just kind of is what it is. Mid-tempo, a little bit whiny, production holds up pretty well, but the thing's just really boring to me. No peaks, no trenches. Not helped by all the times I've heard stuff from here in the wild is, like, shopping for clothes.

Probably first shoegaze-adjacent thing that I legitimately liked

Sometimes it hits the right level of Moody that it seems to be aiming for, but for the most part this is just really boring.

Liked it better than Blank Planet, but that's about all I got

Big nostalgia record for me, top shelf Dad Rock. Also extremely good hangover music imo.

This one was a contender for my album submission, so I'm very happy that somebody else sent it in.

It's Queen, you already know what they're about. I don't know if I fully get why they're naming their albums after Marx Bros movies like this.

I could have sworn we got this one on the main list, but looks like I was remembering the John Zorn thing that shouted out Coleman. Loose & fun, although I think on the whole I liked the experimentation of later jazz even more

Sitting at an unfortunate halfway point between whiner boy depression metal, and cheesy power metal, it would benefit a lot from just picking a lane. As someone who's not really a fan of either, but who prefers the power metal over the whiny stuff, I think American bands aren't capable of doing power metal right. They get too self-conscious too quickly to hit the necessary flamboyance.

90s funk as global phenomenon

Very reminiscent of Jane's Addiction. Nice & novel for what the list has been giving me lately