Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2020 how i’m feeling now Charli XCX ★★★★ 85 Pop Electropop Hyperpop how i’m feeling now is a really good, well crafted pop album that expertly combines Charli XCX’s catchy, simple choruses, with complex production that keep you interested and coming back for more. It’s a work that isContinue reading “how i’m feeling now – Charli XCX ★★★★”
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Kala – M.I.A. ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2007 Kala M.I.A. ★★★½ 76 Electronic Alternative Hip-Hop Synthpop Kala is a loud, bangin’ pop record that’s much less hip-hop leaning than M.I.A.’s previous album Arular and more overall about electronic production and creating dance tracks than her vocals. With an almost childlike, playground chaoticness or aggressiveness, M.I.A. mixesContinue reading “Kala – M.I.A. ★★★½”
The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails ★★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 1994 The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails ★★★★½ 90 Rock Industrial Electronic Rock The Downward Spiral has so many things going for it, and really feels like a starting point for making some of the darkest parts of alternative rock and metal music from the 90s more mainstream. Yes,Continue reading “The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails ★★★★½”
Post – Björk ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 1995 Post Björk ★★★★ 81 Electronic Art Pop Trip-Hop On Post, Björk delivers both a more mature and more commercial performance compared to Debut two years prior. The vast production and pop styles touched on Post are breathtaking at times, mixing elements of dance, trip-hop, industrial sounds, art popContinue reading “Post – Björk ★★★★”
Mutations – Beck ★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 1998 Mutations Beck ★★ 43 Rock Alternative Rock The first of Beck’s soft rock, no nonsense efforts, Mutations is almost offensively inoffensive. The songs are slow, they don’t really go anywhere, and Beck doesn’t do anything to impress or really even show any kind of emotion in his vocalContinue reading “Mutations – Beck ★★”
The Stone Roses – The Stone Rose ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 1989 The Stone Roses The Stone Roses ★★★½ 73 Rock Psychedelic Rock Madchester The Stone Roses’ 1989 self-titled debut album is a little disjointed and underwhelming at times, but overall the band brings a lot of good songs to the table and moves in a bunch of different directionsContinue reading “The Stone Roses – The Stone Rose ★★★½”
Parklife – Blur
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 1994 Parklife Blur ★★★★½ 91 Rock Alternative Rock Britpop It’s easy to listen to Parklife for the very first time and dismiss it as basic, or not particularly serious. Blur uses standard Britpop instrumentation, and there’s nothing individually that seems spectacular. Lyrically and vocally the songs are jokey andContinue reading “Parklife – Blur”
I Know NIGO! – Nigo ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2022 I Know Nigo! Nigo ★★★ 67 Hip-Hop I Know Nigo! Is a quick, fun, hip-hop compilation record curated by Japanese fashion designer and BAPE founder Nigo. A DJ with Japanese hip-hop group Teriyaki Boy, the second album under his name — and first since way back in 2000Continue reading “I Know NIGO! – Nigo ★★★½”
Straight Outta Compton – NWA ★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 1988 Straight Outta Compton N.W.A. ★★ 40 Hip-Hop Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A. was a monumental and pioneering hip-hop record, but age has not been kind to it, and while you have to talk about how instrumental the album was in forming gangsta rap, highly political music about racialContinue reading “Straight Outta Compton – NWA ★★”
Forever and Ever – SALES ★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2018 Forever and Ever SALES ★★ 49 Rock Indie Pop Bedroom Pop Forever and Ever by SALES is a stereotypical bedroom pop record, with sweet, dreamy vocals; soft, gentle guitar; do-it-yourself drum programming and production; and teenage diary-style lyrics. For the most part, albums like this are pleasant backgroundContinue reading “Forever and Ever – SALES ★★½”
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