A really strong, varied album from Roy Blair - the closing track is the real standout for me
Haunting and devastatingly emotional, but quite hit and miss as a whole album. There are some seriously incredible moments, but also some of Phil's most underwhelming and average moments for me personally. It could be better, but it's still really good.
The longevity is insane - this album sounds just as good as they did in the past, but with a dark melancholic tone to it. It's hypnotic at times, and my only gripe is that the middle section feels ever so slightly same-y. Still a brilliant release though, and a great addition to a brilliant year of music
For what should, on paper, be pretty much a match made in heaven, this underwhelmed massively. It loses all the charm and character of the original, and instead just sounds pretty generic. Was really hoping for more :(
I appreciate the ambition, and the album is really well refined, but unfortunately just like all of Tyler's previous works it just doesn't work for me - something in his music just doesn't click at all and I struggle to get into it. Perhaps it'll grow on me in the future, but on first listen it just isn't for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The horns on this are absolutely incredible, they make the album such an insanely fun listen - a really underrated gem of an album!
A pretty middle of the road release, with an atrocious album cover. I hate that baby.
I feel like a lot of this album relies on the listener - unless you're from a country that has suffered at the hands of the English, this album likely won't land anywhere near as well as it should. Kneecap invoke and play hard on the feeling of animosity held especially by Celtic nations towards their English neighbours, and do so in an incredibly impressive way with the seamless integration of Irish into their lyrics. The passion and basically hatred is unmatched here, and makes for ... read more
Whilst it does showcase a good variety of sounds and some promising potential, ultimately The Garden Dream just doesn't do quite enough to win me over
As everyone else has mentioned, the English Teacher (and to an extent BCNR) influence is impossible to miss on this album. At times brilliant, it unfortunately falls quite stagnant towards the end and feels as it it will never end! Ultimately, this leaves the album as a bitter taste as you spend the latter half of the album just waiting, almost hoping, that it will end soon
Emotionally heavy but quite repetitive at times, this does feel like Porridge Radios most complete and rounded album. However, I worry that without some development of their sound, this could end up becoming stale.
It's decent, but consistently teases something that never really arrives and therefore ends pretty flat
It lost me at moments, but when it had my attention it was a pretty sweet album!
Reminiscent of the Chats with their outlandish, almost humourous approach to punk music, Amyl and the Sniffers drop a pretty enjoyable album. At times a bit too quirky, it definitely plays up to the title of 'Cartoon Darkness' - I just find that sometimes it tries too hard to stand out, with the music suffering as a result