Babalee

I have to say, this album was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting it to be. With that being said, this album still wasn't very good. The vast majority of this record is still the lifeless Coldplay I expected when I turned it on, but I was surprised to see a few actually half decent tracks here. The instrumentals on this album were beautiful, and ALL MY LOVE actually sounded like something that would be on X&Y. Besides those though, the rest of this was painfully mid or pretty bad.

This is an interesting release for Good Kid, and I'm not really sure how to feel about it. DWTK and Some Time To Explain are extremely unnecessary acoustic covers that don't really add any value to the originals, but I was surprised to find some actual really good things done here as well. The feature on Madeliene was really good and added a lot of depth to that song, and Second Rate Town translated to acoustics really well. Ending it with the Epilogue thing was fine I guess, ... read more

I’ve been really into Rosemary and Entombed for a while now, so I decided to go ahead and check out this full album. I’m really happy I did, because the quality really doesn’t drop for this entire 50 minute album. There are so many amazing transitions from screaming to mellow instrumentals and I have no idea how they’re able to pull it off so perfectly. Something about this album is extremely calming while intense at the same time, and it’s pretty impressive. I ... read more

Definitely the first time I enjoyed a Beatles album the whole way through. Lighthearted and well produced, also way more creative and consistent than anything they had made before this. I think Rubber Soul is overall solid, with a few standout tracks I’ll be coming back to, but mostly stuff I would be ok with only listening to once. Fun experience though