Every time I relisten to Gluee, I like it a little bit more than the last time! I find it had to believe that I really thought this was a 1/10 almost two years ago.

Deletee - 5*
Safehouse - 5
Ebay - 5
Shadowface - 5
Spellbound - 5
Everlasting Flames - 4
Freeze - 3
Upgrade Enabled - 4
Unreal - 5

8.5/10

PLEASE save your time and skip out on this.

Instead of developing their sound further after the unique and unexpected album King Master George, Fishmans decided to regress in their sound, for some reason. Neo Yankees’ Holiday goes back in the sense that they fused the exciting musical elements they embraced on King Master George with the extremely generic sound of Chappie, Don’t Cry, while disproportionately favoring the latter style. This album loses a lot of the fun and ... read more

The polar opposite of their debut.

While Chappie, Don’t Cry was a more laid back, very generic reggae album, King Master George is a completely unexpected U-turn in terms of style, even with being preceded by the EP “Corduroy’s Mood” which saw a shift away from reggae.

This album is a LOT more consistent than the previous album while being similar in length, making this an actually enjoyable listening experience. The album’s sonic uniqueness just augments that ... read more

You’re telling me this was released in the same year as Chappie, Don’t Cry?

Corduroy’s Mood is a total stylistic shift from Fishmans’ debut LP, and considering how boring I thought that album was, it’s a shift for the better. That Girl Sleeps is by far the best song the band has released up to this point, and every other track on this EP besides the closer is better than even some of the best ones off Chappie, Don’t Cry. Very interested to see how the band ... read more

The beginning of Fishmans.

This is a pretty standard reggae album, not much else to say besides that it runs WAY too long for my liking. There’s some gems in here like Locusts Are Flying (track 7) and Go Go Club, but you have to sift through a lot of dirt to get to them. Tons of improvement is to be seen on Fishmans’ future records when they made the shift a more psychedelic sound.

ひっくりかえってた2人 (Two People Who Were Turning Back) - 4

ひこうき (Airplane) - ... read more

Mindblowing.

I’ll be honest, I don’t often venture outside of music written in English, but Bocanada might be the reason I’ll start to do so. The quality of the tracks are so consistent throughout the entire album, and there are so many “standout” songs that they don’t even feel like standout songs, it’s amazing. Tabu and Verno Carne are some of the best songs in this genre I’ve ever heard and Paseo Inmoral’s instrumental section might be ... read more

SYMBOLIC ACTS! SO VIVID!

Even after almost 30 years at this point, Symbolic still stands as one of the most beloved metal albums ever, and for good reason. For 50 minutes, you’re being pummeled nonstop until you lose every ounce of your energy because you were head banging to literally every single track.

Seriously, this is a strong contender for the most consistent album of all time, at least in my opinion. What’s amazing is that, normally when I say albums are consistent, they ... read more

I don’t like The End!!

Now that I got that out of the way, I’ve never been a gigantic fan of The Door’s debut. I like the album, I find that there’s a lot of amazing songs on here: The Crystal Ship, Light My Fire, and Take It As It Comes just being a few of them. However, I also think a good chunk of the tracks are uninteresting to various degrees. I’m not going to list them, but if you’re interested as to which those are, I have my my track ratings /5 below ... read more

The first great Radiohead album.

This is MILES better than Pablo Honey in every aspect. The tracklist is just great song after great song, the consistency of this album was probably the main thing that blew me away on my first listen. On my second listen, that feeling was further reinforced. Fake Plastic Trees and Fade Out are definitely two of the best songs the band has written thus far.

Planet Telex - 5
The Bends - 5*
High and Dry - 5
Fake Plastic Trees - 5*
Bones - 3
(Nice Dream) - 4
Just ... read more

An experience like none other.

Skinny Fists is easily one of the most cinematic albums I’ve ever heard. It’s also one of the best albums I’ve ever heard. It’s always captivating, either building up to a climax or transitioning between these movement-like sections in the most jaw-dropping, beautiful, and perfected way possible. Sleep and Like Antennas to Heaven… are some of my favorite post-rock songs ever, and even though I like Storm and Static less then the ... read more

Not a bad debut!

Obviously it’s not as good as the classic albums they put out in the future, but Pablo Honey is still a pretty decent batch of rock songs, albeit a little generic and boring, especially in the first half.

You - 5
Creep - 2
How Do You? - 3
Stop Whispering - 2
Thinking About You - 2
Anyone Can Play Guitar - 4
Ripcord - 5
Vegetable - 4
Prove Yourself - 3
I Can’t - 4
Lurgee - 3
Blow Out - 5

6.0/10

HOT TAKE: Good ideas, questionable execution.

If the goal of this album was to create a dark, gray atmosphere, which I assume it to be given how the samples were used, it almost certainly fails at that. The ambience is far too reserved and unexciting to create any significant sense of that. Rather, it creates a sense of dullness a lot of the time. I can’t stress this point enough, even though this album is regarded as a post rock album, it’s more or the same an ambient record with ... read more

Desilusión offers some pretty stripped and laid back singer-songwriter tracks that are surprisingly relaxing.

La Ciruela - 4
Desilusión - 4
Loneliness Street - 4
Vivir Sin Ti - 5

7.0/10

Possibly the best EP of all time?

This is a pretty long EP, standing at 28 minutes, and what makes it unique is that it’s made up of just two songs! Both of the tracks bringing different ideas to the table.

Moya is cinematic, almost laid back for GY!BE standards, but still has an exciting buildup with a repetitive scale that offers a glimpse into the type of stuff you’d expect to hear on the second track, Blaise Bailey Finnegan III.

One of that song’s most intriguing ... read more

GET ‘ROUND IN THE SEASON!

Everything that could be said about this album has already been said, so I’ll keep this short. I love the atmosphere this album creates, but especially with the piano loop. I could listen to that for days and not get bored. The beginning and end are obviously the highlights, and the middle “water drop section” is interesting too, but really pales in comparison to the rest of the song because of the lesser amount of substance it has. But, ... read more

It’s not a Philip Glass piece unless you repeat each measure a thousand times.

I’m at a loss for words. This is some jaw-droppingly beautiful music, it’s so easy to find yourself lost in the sound while listening to this. From front to back, every track adds to the blissful experience that is Glassworks and there is not a falter in sight. I’m not super familiar with Glass’ works (pun intended), or any minimalism for that matter, but if it is as emotional, ... read more

Definitely not their Mangum opus.

Particularly in the first half of the album, a lot of the songs fall victim to underdeveloped ideas. They’re usually lacking in substantive progression or making a big statement, which leads to them to usually have an unsatisfying finish. Additionally, a lot of the time the instrumentation just drones around Jeff’s voice, not really making On Avery Island’s music-listening experience more interesting.

The album is pretty back-ended, as ... read more

The Decemberists’ masterpiece.

I was consistently wowed by how consistently good this album is. I mean, starting from The Infanta and ending at Of Angels and Angles, the only song that I have any serious issue with is From My Own True Love, which I find to have little meaningful progression and value in the tracklist.

There are so many amazing songs here, We Both Go Down Together, 16 Military Wives, On The Bus Mall, etc. The Decemberists had come a long way since their debut even though ... read more

DOOM really ATE on this album!!! 😂😂😂

No but seriously, this is one of the most creative rap albums of all time. The entire concept of this album is silly and unique, and it’s executed perfectly. The instrumentals are amazing across the board, and the instrumental middle section of the album makes for an exciting listening experience every single time. DOOM’s creative use of samples never fails to be intriguing no matter how much I listen to this album. This album is just ... read more

Injury Reserve’s creativeness really shines on this one.

While I don’t think this is as genre-bending or music-defying as everyone else says it is, By The Time I Get To Phoenix still offers a unique, abstract take on hip hop that is surprisingly enjoyable and emotionally gut-punching. The variety of genre influences like industrial, electronic, and glitch hop really give this album a wide range of sounds. Outside sounds completely different than Superman That, and Superman That ... read more