archetypewriter
New Zealand
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Kiddie pop for the kiddies and their future selves reminiscing about their youth. This is one of the few super mainstream pop records that doesn't make me feel tortured by sound, but that's not enough. Bury a Friend and Listen Before I Go are decent tunes.
Well crafted pop, but I just don't enjoy the sonic palette used. She sounds like she's channeling Kate Bush (especially in Up All Night) but filtering it through the modern pop aesthetic (which I often find both boring and irritating at the same time). I appreciate the ways she explores what her voice is capable of more than most pop artists, but in the end the music doesn't resonate with me enough for repeated listens. I think her best work was on songs like "Closer" and ... read more
Very much off the Slowdive template. Solid Shoegaze album. Collide and Tremble are my favorite tunes.
Before there was "math rock" there was Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford,Tony Levin, and Adrian Belew seeing how far they can push a rock band into the land of polyrhythms and mutating ostinados. Like all prog it has its pretentious moments, usually from Belew, but there aren't many rock bands this tightly synced playing in odd time signatures and difficult overlapping patterns. A musicians album for sure.
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100= Perfect, transcendent
90 = Amazing, top favorites of all time, most tracks are excellent
80 = Very Good, most tracks are great, many excellent
70 = Good, but many mediocre songs and only one or two favorites.
60 = OK. Don't mind listening to it. No favorites
50 = meh, mediocre. Maybe a couple good songs
40 = Mostly don't like
30 = Bad, but maybe one decent song
20 = Amazingly terrible, annoying
10 = Mostly torture
0 = All the worst things at once
100= Perfect, transcendent
90 = Amazing, top favorites of all time, most tracks are excellent
80 = Very Good, most tracks are great, many excellent
70 = Good, but many mediocre songs and only one or two favorites.
60 = OK. Don't mind listening to it. No favorites
50 = meh, mediocre. Maybe a couple good songs
40 = Mostly don't like
30 = Bad, but maybe one decent song
20 = Amazingly terrible, annoying
10 = Mostly torture
0 = All the worst things at once
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