Reviews by ultraclear

This is the most dated-90s shit I’ve heard in my life

I got excited when I realized it was going to be all instrumental, but it never really rose above passing the time alright

Think I liked Rain Dogs better, he was sleazier on that

I’m a tough sell on most post-50s/60s country music, and I liked this quite a bit

Band continues to be mids

The type of techno that Strong Bad was making fun of

I expected to have a bunch of thoughts on Muse and whether their stuff has aged very well since my high school days when I was super into them, maybe some ideas on the distinctly Nolan-movie-style bombast, evaluating whether I still like it etc. What I thought about instead is how I never really listened very much to this as a full album, usually I just skipped between the singles. The big fuckoff Cosmic Arena Rock pieces show their age, but actually still land alright, but in between them are a whole lot of bad filler pieces that really drag the whole thing down

More of a stereotypical ‘80s sound compared to Crocodiles, by which I mean less along the lines of synth pop, and more grandiose, lots of orchestral stings, etc. A Bigger sound that I think benefits them

Foundational album of a low-key influential band, but not one of my preferred releases from them

Johnny Cash is great, and I like how much this benefits from being a live album, really shows off how charismatic of a performer he was

Album went a bit too long. The number of songs was correct, lots to get lost in, and they go a lot of different places, but the songs mostly overstayed their welcome.

c. 2012 I was using Pandora a lot, and for some reason it was absolutely obsessed with serving me up instrumental covers of “Kashmir”. Which I guess was fine, just confusing.

I feel like by 1993 it was long past time to evolve past this kind of sound

This was fantastic! I feel like concept albums haven’t been in vogue for a good long while, so I really really loved how big she went with it here.

Sex Dwarf saved this from 2 stars

Had to dig up a mono release because the stereo mixing was way too aggressive for headphones, but overall pretty fun weird folky mishmash thing

Spotify reactivated autoplay without permission, and it took me a solid hour to notice the album was done with.

Grungy, forgettable

I have no idea about who this guy is or his deal in general, but this was really interesting. Album length kind of uncalled for, but on the other hand a normal length wouldn’t have been enough to get lost in, which was very fun with this

Dire stuff, I was correct to give them a miss back in the day

Knowing them only from “Wonderwall”, this was pretty good. At its best made me think about underwater cities, which is a winner for me.

iirc there’s like a fan feud between them and Blur? going off this, I think I’m probably Team Blur