Reviews by ultraclear

At what point will people start agreeing that there's enough of this kind of thing on here now

One of the best hip-hop releases I've heard from after 2010

Fine enough rainy morning music. Unclear what "English electronica musician Jon Hopkins" was bringing to the table, since this was entirely a folky production

Benchmark for mashup work. First heard of Girl Talk back when Neil Cicierega was making his Mouth series, though having now finally listened weirdly I think I prefer Neil C’s style, which is much less slick, but has funnier jokes woven into everything

Anyways this is excellent brain floss. Clears out anything I may have had stuck in my head, banishes all earworms

Someone's dad's favorite cooking music

Annoying, repetitive, grey sludge

I admire the restraint to deny Barracuda to the users. I've always liked how distinctive Heart's sound was, and this one's pretty high up on the list of albums that I'd want to see swapped into the original list

Really channeling Sugarcubes-era Björk with the singing style. Started promising, but ended up being too much of the same thing in a row. Decent time overall.

The 80s truly were a crazy time of the most glossy overproduced mainstream music, and the most insanely hot underground music. This one's like an instruction book for so much that came afterward

I’d been procrastinating on giving them a listen for a while now. Very impressive work, one of the first post-80s American heavy metal acts that’s properly grabbed my attention. Guess it’s time to go listen to their Moby Dick album now

Experimental Sci-fi hip hop is such a specific genre with such a good hit rate on here

Sitting at the border of pop-punk and nu-metal, not quite Linkin Park style, though. Hell of a backstory, which doesn't quite elevate this for me, though.

Hard Rock Cafe.

2009 really is the funniest year for this to have come out. Like even sometime in the 2020s would have been more defensible

Medium indie rock. Definitely aiming for experimental, which unfortunately drifts into Annoying pretty often. The inevitable sacrifices made in the name of progress.

I won't pretend to be 100% above this kind of bullshit, and in fact I'm kind of relieved that this kind of cheesy euro pop power metal's managed to survive past the late 2010s. I thought for a while Gloryhammer had managed to permanently kill this kind of thing off. So definitely good on the guys and their funny costumes and their frontman who kind of sings like Weird Al.

That said: I'm not as hellbent against live albums as some of the other people here, but this one in particular was really brought down by being one of those. Some of the worst crowd work I've heard in my life, and it completely wrecked any kind of flow or immersion that was even coming close to winning me over

more bombastic than the other rosenstock on here, but I dunno that I'm all that taken in by his schtick

My local gym plays this kind of thing in the locker room. Not the kind of music that makes much sense in an album, it's just kind of filler

Kind of representing the background radiation of 80s metal, I kept drifting between what specific groups it reminded me of. "Oh this is Diet ACDC," "maybe it's more Diet Aerosmith?" "Now they're doing Helter Skelter? Sure."

Fine enough throwback thing. '07 feels maybe a little early to be doing The 80s. Rounding down the 3.5

Brazilian dad rock. Off the charts Dire Straits