Recent Ratings

Bill Callahan - Dream River
Bill Callahan
Dream River
100
Oct 24, 2015
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
St. Vincent
St. Vincent
100
Oct 23, 2015
Joanna Newsom - Divers
Joanna Newsom
Divers
100
Oct 23, 2015

Recent Reviews

Florence + The Machine - Lungs
NR
'Lungs' feels like the best of madness distilled in an exorcism of pop-dullness. 'Lungs' is a patchwork monster, and fills out with every epic twist and turn. Florence + the Machine have created a living, breathing, booming album that never stops, except for the occasional sharp intake of breathe. With an edge and spirit, 'Lungs' makes for great listening.
Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
NR
'Ceremonials' was a much larger 'Lungs', but without the edge. It doesn't have that same dazzling beauty, going instead for a fuller, more general sound. By anyone else's standards, this is eccentricity personified, but by Florence's standards, it doesn't have that sharpness. Still, songs like 'Only If For A Night', 'What The Water Gave Me', and 'Seven Devils' capture that ghostly spirit. A very strong album.
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
NR
Music isn't made as well as this anymore. Bob Dylan's 'Blue'-moment. This is the kind of album that makes the most music-illiterate human being want to pick up a guitar and write down their most intimate thoughts, to be shared with the world - the only singer-songwriter as talented as Bob Dylan in the history of music, is in my opinion, Laura Marling, and given that she was so heavily influenced by BOTT, it's quite clear that this album must go down in history as a ... read more
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
NR
Better than their anodyne second LP by a mile. 'Sigh No More' has some credulity and originality to it, the songs are perceptibly different (just) and they don't make me want to set fire to every banjo store miles around. Not bad - by no means brilliant though.
Mumford & Sons - Babel
NR
This attempt to sit atop the clouds of folk legends falls like a brick through the stratosphere. Anodyne, fake, faux-naïve, Marcus Mumford sounds like a man with an anger management issue, who flares up, screams for a few minutes, realises he's made a fool of himself and sits down embarrassedly. They over-emote and use expensive studio tricks trying to sound epic. Laura Marling takes an acoustic guitar and soars higher than they ever will - maybe it's because their banjos are ... read more

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