Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 1993 Zooropa U2 ★★½ 55 Rock Alternative Rock To call Zooropa a misstep for U2 would be unfair. It would be tough for any album to match the success and status of Achtung Baby or Joshua Tree; anything coming after was sure to mildly disappoint, at a minimum. U2Continue reading “Zooropa – U2 ★★½”
Tag Archives: Alternative Rock
Room on Fire – The Strokes ★★★★
Year Album Artist Star Score Genre 2003 Room on Fire The Strokes ★★★★ 85 Rock Alternative Rock Indie Rock It’s hard to follow up a debut album that reinvigorated an entire genre of music with anything but disappointment, but the Strokes really did the best anyone possibly could have on Room on Fire. The StrokesContinue reading “Room on Fire – The Strokes ★★★★”
El Camino – The Black Keys ★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2011 El Camino The Black Keys ★★★ 66 Rock Alternative Rock Blues Rock El Camino represents The Black Keys at their peak popularity. “Lonely Boy” was an absolute banger of a single that had a lot more energy than what they had offered the album prior, an energy that’sContinue reading “El Camino – The Black Keys ★★★”
Brothers – The Black Keys ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2010 Brothers The Black Keys ★★★½ 71 Rock Indie Rock Blues Rock I look back fondly on the days when The Black Keys were considered hip and cool, when they seemed like one of the last holdouts of the garage rock movement that started in the early 2000s withContinue reading “Brothers – The Black Keys ★★★½”
Everything is Alive – Slowdive
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2023 Everything is Alive Slowdive ★★★ 67 Rock Alternative Rock Shoegaze Shoegaze stalwarts Slowdive return for the first time in six years with Everything is Alive, an album with a slightly different flavor than anything they’ve done in the past. The band seems to have pulled on the reins,Continue reading “Everything is Alive – Slowdive”
Dear Science – TV on the Radio ★★★★
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2008 Dear Science TV on the Radio ★★★★ 84 Rock Alternative Rock Indie Rock While 2006’s Return to Cookie Mountain is TV on the Radio’s biggest critical success and the peak of their creative vision, their follow up record in 2008 is usually my go-to when I’m listening toContinue reading “Dear Science – TV on the Radio ★★★★”
Psyence Fiction – UNKLE ★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 1998 Psyence Fiction UNKLE ★★½ 58 Electronic Alternative Rock Trip-Hop It might not be as pioneering or captivating as DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing… in 1996, but Psyence Fiction is a natural progression point for the DJ and producer as he teamed up with James Lavelle to form UNKLE in 1998. Continue reading “Psyence Fiction – UNKLE ★★½”
Hyperspace – Beck ★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2019 Hyperspace Beck ★½ 37 Rock Alternative Rock Synthpop I really like Beck, and I really, really like Pharrell. So understand when I say I really, really, really don’t like Hyperspace — Beck’s 2019, Pharrell produced record — I don’t say it from a place of negative bias orContinue reading “Hyperspace – Beck ★½”
Colors – Beck ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2017 Colors Beck ★★★½ 70 Rock Alternative Rock Beck’s 13th album, Colors, gets unfairly dismissed and criticized, because it lacks some of the hallmarks of Beck’s more acclaimed records. Beck typically bounces between records that are either kooky and experimental, or stripped down and serious; both styles have beenContinue reading “Colors – Beck ★★★½”
AM – Arctic Monkeys ★★★½
Year Album Artist Stars Score Genre 2013 AM Arctic Monkeys ★★★½ 73 Rock Alternative Rock Sometimes there are albums that make a big impression when they come out, with a lingering impact and high level of nostalgia it can generate that goes beyond the actual quality of the record itself. AM, the Arctic Monkeys’ 2013Continue reading “AM – Arctic Monkeys ★★★½”
Fresh Out The Deli 