Reviews by ultraclear

Huge gulf between how hard that album cover goes, and how sauceless the music is. Slightly more enjoyable than their other one on here, but I'm not super impressed with them.

Man, they just let bands sound like anything during the 90s. Genre descriptors all over the place, call it techno country, psychedelic soul, acid-house-folk, the list goes on. Obligatory hey that's the Sopranos theme song, but also the full version of that track is so much weirder in context. Very fun pick!

I felt positive about more than one song on here, which is way more than I expected, but also might have just been Rihanna and Rick Ross carrying him. His baseline is just super boring, and I can't tell if the problem is his talent or his taste.

Kendrick Beef's obviously the big thing that's crippled this guy's standing among the masses, but tbh my personal favorite Drake dismissal was Mos Def describing his music as "compatible with shopping"

A lot of people I know aren't exactly Death Grips fans, but "went through a Death Grips phase," so I was excited to see this one come up. Turns out it's great! Scanning the genre tags as I listen, I can sense the DNA that would go on to spawn 100 gecs and their ilk, but back in 2012 we got something leaner and meaner, with seemingly less mainstream exposure. Completely different distribution environment.

Even though it's categorized as Rock throughout all descriptions on here & wikipedia, it's hitting my ears as J-Pop due to some production sensibilities happening. I guess unlike actual J-Pop, the arrangements are primarily this brassy jazzy ensemble instead of 110% video game sounds (look it's not a genre I know very well). Honestly pretty good, I get some of the complaints about the vocals, but they're not a dealbreaker for me.

True to its title, I can easily imagine this being played in some 1990s yacht club. It's got that early 90s overproduced sound, but wasn't so bad while it was playing.

There's been a lot of 90s indie coming across this thing. This one's the first in a while that didn't immediately put me to sleep, it's like by 1999 bands were finally getting all the grunge influences out of their systems and moving onto more interesting things.

Sounds like what it is, which is "experimental album from Animal Collective guy"

Floaty electro pop is for the world, as it turns out. Rounding up the 3.5

J-pop-inflected british indie music, I'm a big fan of fusion music pulling from global influences

Whiny voice style indie, but honestly kinda worked for it. Sometimes that'll happen.

Purgatory indeed hyuk hyuk. There's nothing actually wrong with it, just is executing well on a genre I've given so many shots and failed to click with

Insane to say this given all the techno on the original thing, but this feels like an important missing piece of the kinds of rave and club that the Dimery list was interested in. Possibly because it’s not exactly an album published as an album in that way.

Anyway, a little bit of this bullshit goes a long way, and i’m listening to this at home, during the day, sober

This kicked an insane amount of ass. Maximalist free jazz out of Japan, never letting up the gas for even a second. Naadam and Akkan in particular are the standout tracks for me

"Atmospheric." had kind of a weird quality where if I started actually paying attention it got on my nerves, but if I zoned out it worked just fine

One of the Indie factory defaults

Supertramp's best-known album, moving into a poppier sound than their previous art-rock. Just about every song on this is extremely recognizable (if not outright overplayed).

It's good, and easily could have gone on the original list... but not at the expense of Crime Of The Century, which is better than this one on just about every level, and I will die on that hill.

So while I like to keep an open mind about things like best-ofs, EPs, and live albums showing up on here, you're completely out of your mind for sending in a 3hr:38 "band's literal entire history" compilation. Wild decision, *nobody* is going to respond well to that.

I wanted to give the music a fair chance, though, so I looked at the band's top song on spotify and listened to that album (Yo, Minoría Absoluta) instead; most of the tracks from that one seem to be in the compilation, anyway. What I got from that was pretty decent hard rock, drifting into metal at times. Pretty fun! Seems like they were a pretty big deal in Spain at the time.

I mean look it’s more Pulp, you know where you stand with it at his point

One of the biggest gulfs i’ve ever heard between how much I dug the music and how much the vocals brought the whole thing down. They are super out of place here.