Frank Valish
The band’s signature sound is obviously intact on Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs, but the songs are rendered with such immediacy and melodic intensity that the new wrinkles are amplified and any sameness rendered meaningless.
2y
Birth of Omni is an album that requires, nay demands, multiple listens. It’s a marvelous artistic statement by an artist who’s been doing it for years. This is his ultimate work.
2y
It’s the overcoming, the living, the lessons learned, and ultimately the hope that ends up shining through.
2y
All this amounts to is the same sort of top notch melodic pop/rock record that Semisonic always had a knack for creating. There is something earnest about the music this band produces, something sincere.
2y
Ultimately, what CMAT has done with CrazyMad, For Me is create a new pop music, centered around melody, heartache, and resolve, and filled with more than a dash of gallows humor to boot.
2y
For those who are inclined to dive headfirst into the past, the wealth of material in this reissue, written, audio, and otherwise, will be manna.
2y
Throughout her career, Loveless has perfected the inward-looking and the brutally honest, always accentuated by a wry turn of phrase or with self-deprecating bite. From heartbreakers to rabble rousers, it’s intelligent, emotional music that the most jaded can connect to.
2y
Throughout the album, Yusuf, who will turn 75 years old this month, is in wonderful voice.
2y
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Along with a book of essays and ephemera to further instruct and illuminate, Fragments is as essential to the Dylan catalog as Time Out of Mind itself.
3y
While they still can do this with the best of them, Patience‘s most interesting moments are its most nuanced, setting a painful lyric against pop melody, altering between moods within songs, and simply embracing the melodic and harnessing it to whatever ends it desires.
6y
Sees the Light retains the same dreamy qualities of last year's La Sera, while significantly upping the rock factor.
14y
On the one hand, Del Rey's aesthetic of purring sex kitten, luring you in with deliberate devilish angel vocals, hip-hop beats, and the occasional lush orchestration, is alluringly original ... On the other hand, however, Del Rey’s faux rap posturing and often ridiculous lyrics border on the offensive.
14y
Through Attack on Memory, Baldi maintains many of his songwriting charms—the knack for melody foremost—but he’s clearly made a sharp left turn in terms of the project’s capabilities.
14y
Forgiveness Rock Record is less about the eccentric and more about a band that, 10 years on, seems to be coming into its own.
11y
Embryonic is the band’s 12th album and it’s a monster. At 18 tracks and well over an hour running time, it is everything you have come to expect from The Flaming Lips—psychedelic soundscapes, ethereal textures, electronic touches, falsetto vocals, philosophical musings, and so much more.
12y