Reviews by ultraclear

Sad man with a guitar. Heard a million like it.

Felt like it took the album a little while to figure its situation out. The second half was more what I was expecting out of Primus, but the early songs were all over the place

Perfectly fine bluesy soulsy

Just kind of standard rock, with a bit of new wave sensibility creeping in. Sorta the general sound of 1979 distilled into 40 minutes. I dunno that this has brought much new or interesting to my life

WAY more personality than brat.

Feminomenon is one of the most annoying songs I've heard in my life (writing "get it hot like papa john" into the CHORUS?! what is WRONG with you), but I actually liked the rest of it! Roan's one of the more interesting acts in pop music right now, and the original list should have more of this kind of thing on it.

Not minding it! Springsteen’s an artist where the original list was actually really helpful for learning to appreciate him a lot more.

I was about to be very annoyed about these 00s indie singer guys all sounding the fucking same, but then I looked it up and it is literally the actual Death Cab guy. Forgiven.

I'm liking way more than Death Cab, it's got good beeps & boops

God I can't stand this kind of breathy vocal delivery. Awful headphones experience.

This was a *bold* choice for a user submission, but it was a good one, this kicked ass. Rare long punk album, and on top of that it kept it interesting the whole time.

The original list + the user albums have really elevated how I feel about french music, all of their stuff has come across really well

I really like Tori Amos music : )

Singer-songwriter stuff is so much better when it's piano-based

Ed Balls.

Hüsker Dü guy's solo work. Middle-of-the-road 90s alt-rock, doesn't have much new to bring to the table, and the new stuff it *does* bring gets a bit grating

I guess grunge lasted long enough that someone tried to get proggy with it. It's not a good match, this was a chore.

Comes in swinging, and then settles into kind of a "Dreamy" space. Would have preferred the alchemy lean harder toward the first mode, but overall it was pretty decent

There was a lot of stuff I’d missed in the 90s that I knew I was ignoring at the time. Crash Test Dummies is a weird one because I only heard about them last year, but everyone was talking like this was a big deal band at the time. Had to be there, apparently

An hour-15 of pretty decent blues rock. I don't think this brought much to the table that the original list didn't cover, and there wasn't enough variety in the runtime to stop it wearing out its welcome

Stinks to live in a world where the wikipedia on this thing is talking about how this is a very emotive & personal album for Robinson, but all of my associations with this kind of music is, like, cab rides and twitch stream intermissions. The background radiation of overstimulating situations. New generation of elevator music. I didn’t even dislike it, I think I just have negative associations with where I’m likely to hear stuff like this out in the world

Reminds me of the Barry Adamson albums from the original list, but with more of a dub/trip hop flavor & less circus brass

I loved their debut. This one's still grungy, but leans a lot more industrial on the B-side & has a kind of euro dance/pop stink on the A-side. Both directions are very Produced, and it's worse than what the first album was doing. Still liked it a lot!

Solo acts/singer-songwriter music living or dying for me based entirely on how interesting I think the backing music is. This one bounced off me.

Makes me think less about "the club" and more about being drunk and taking an uber home in NYC. I don't really care for this kind of music, but later book editions definitely gotta dip into some of their Techno budget to put more stuff like this in there.