Reviews by ultraclear

Agreed with people that this one could probably have bumped one of the Chic albums from the main list. On its own terms, kinda felt like each song started good, but went on too long

Spent most of this thinking it was above-average american folky. They got me! It was Swedish all along!

Endless desert of soft rock

Gonna echo others here. I know the current full "submitted albums" list isn't really made prominent on the site proper (can be found at https://1001albumsgenerator.com/user-albums if anyone didn't already know & is curious), but for this to be a late-career release after years of no activity from the band, the fourth TOOL album sent in, doing nothing new, and having been submitted later than the other three on here, I feel like I gotta dock it at least a little bit.

Still leaves it as a 4/5 for me, though. TOOL Good.

Total slog start to finish

Turned to grey sludge by the end. No personality.

First song had me worried I was going to like this less than I did. Above average for singer-songwriter fare.

Midnight City's the only one on here that ever really broke containment. This whole thing's highly representative of that specific indie pop kind of sound that the 2010s were dabbling in.

Above-average Singer-songwriter work for me, because it actually has what I always want more of from those: musical arrangements that aren't just one guitar

A very Inside Baseball album. More interesting historically than musically.

Internal tension of being absolutely exhausted by all the Vampire Weekend albums showing up on here, but also liking this one quite a bit more than I usually do for them

An incredibly precise snapshot of the 90s starting to hatch out of the shell of the 80s, meaning it's a little bit stupid & annoying, but also somehow extremely charming.

Also since I complain a lot about album length, especially on releases from around this era, I'd like to shout out that this one actually would have completely fallen apart if they had cut it to 30-40min. It really needed this amount of runtime to simmer properly.

I tend to get a little bit excited when I draw pop music from someone whose name I don't recognize, because there's sometimes interesting surprises in there. Not this one, though. 33 minutes long, and it feels like 90. The only song that I enjoyed even a little bit was the fatboy slim one.

This is straight-up not meant to be listened to straight through as an album, it's meant to be crappy filler music for coffee shops, gyms, and football game commercial breaks

short & sweet, if a little sleepy

It's interesting and a little baffling to me that this one's one of the lowest-rated on the users list, but Aeroplane Over The Sea's a crowd favorite. I don't consider Aeroplane to be very different from this, and honestly, Times New Viking's even a little bit less grating, because the mix doesn't spotlight wildly flat singing

Modest Mouse at home, which isn’t the worst thing a band could be

Leaves the same impression as the last one of these that I got served up: biting so much from R.E.M. that it renders them boring

Hot damn, manages to evoke not only nostalgia for '05, but amazement that something that sounds like this is as old as '05

Indie rock/indie pop. It's of the Adventurous variety, meaning that I mostly like it better than the folky and maudlin ones, but it does unfortunately veer over into being annoying a lot of the time.

Down-the-middle rock music