if you're passionate about the history of indie or even if you're just a fan of indie music, this album is a love letter to you and to the world the genre has existed in. iceage's 'for the love of grace & the hereafter' is a display of the genre's long history reaching back as far as the velvet underground's 1967 debut on a track like 'salve for every sore' which invokes a western sort of twang into an art rock setting, much like the velvet ... read more

there is genuinely no reason to listen to the sex pistols. let me just get that across. if you wanna listen to something good thats like that made with actual heart and ambition, turn thy weary eye to richard hell + the voidoid's 'blank generation.' it's where malcom mclaren got the pistols' entire shtick from anyhow. no, the reason why we cannot dismiss john lydon from the history of experimental and independent music is because of public image ltd. it is too often the ... read more

humming, melodic business which lulls you into the world of post punk's deeper emotional tonalities.
one of the best examples of the marriage between dub and krautrock which makes up post-punk

on the available spotify version, the front half consists of jah wobble's first six or so singles and is then proceeded by 'bedroom album' on the labeled second disk. that side is full of the excentrities that jah brings to every project he's involved with. those singles are some of the finest in the mutant disco genre and deserve to be considered their own piece of art.

no, basically. if you've ever wondered where public image's darkness went, the answer is that ... read more

i think this is basically as good as music ever gets honestly

everyone present is on top form. though i'd prefer more of the funkier, mutant disco aspects on the record i suppose even jah wobble and holger czukay himself are at the whims of the mediocre edge. this record has a direction however which cannot be easily ignored and hence, prevails. jah bless jah. i'd say this is a third level needed post-punk excersise.

one of the more interesting singles of the time; allows time for every musician present to express what they've so dilligently worked to perfect. one of the must haves of post-punk singles.

one of the most sweepingly beautiful efforts in kilgour's entire catalogue and some of the best of the entire jangle genre.
this records releases waves of cold, comforting air into the world and dances along simplistic but decidedly kilgour-classic guitars. for those who have delved into kilgour's discography and found cuts such as the great unwashed - think of that fleeting sense of beauty. or if you're simply a fan of those more delicate classics by bands like felt or even the ... read more

this is the only album called 'let it be.' in my book.

i don't know if anything else feels, sounds, or rolls over one's heart and mind the way this record does. i guess that's to be said for almost every mats record. you feel their constant hesitation, recklessness, and emotionality in everything they do. being a replacements fan says a lot about you, it's music you live with and grow with and make all your mistakes with. three records into their career, with ... read more

setting out to review all of my top ten favourite albums, starting from number ten.

001. to all the girls - an intro track, upright bass heavy with distortion and vocals by yauch. which, if you're obsessed with beasties, it goes without saying that this is one of yauch's "higher-than-heaven" tracks akin to 'namaste.' no, listening to it on vinyl will not make it louder - it's that quiet all of the time. [5/10]
002. one of the most break-neck changes in pace ... read more

i feel like a lack of context is missing where this album could be more appreciated.
think of manchester, england in 1988 -- just before an economic boom, at the tail ends of exhaust from a generation left to fail. all anyone can talk about in the bands from your hometown is how the streets are tired and barren, for your whole lived existence has been one of grey and white. youre told about the sadness of the country by the alternative bands and otherwise on your radio, and sitting here if an ... read more

the absolute density of iq in these reviews are such that i think even ethel cain would be ashamed to see her fans behaving this way. i don't know if anyone knows about music from before they were born i feel like i'm the only person in the world who knows that other things existed before they got into music. firstly, it is insanenly misogynistic to see a woman making music that is getting close to her previous experimental music if not just a proof of charli's continued ... read more

it's hard to get a perspective on what this record's reputation is as an american in the year of our unholy lord 2025, but venturing a little further into jacques' career post the first two more 'classic' LPs proves to be a more and more exciting advent than i anticipated. the streaming service i used finally uploaded his early 70s work and this record, otherwise called "l'arsene," which appears to be the name of the character this album is about. the ... read more

the brain worms people have about JR continue to be wild to me.
keep trying to dig what she puts out but just find myself increasingly discocerted by her
expression of self, increasingly sounding more and more like carti when she got big off
shoegaze. not saying genre shifts can't happen, most my faves do it, but sometimes it
can be uh ... a little. too too similar in the wrong way.

not my cuppa.

i have to admit that this record is daunting for me as a john cale fan due to my having been introduced to it rather late in my career as a john cale fan, so seeing the hype around it is genuinely surprising. hype for anything john does is weird enough, but for this record, it seems even stranger. starting us off is a track entitled child's Christmas in wales, a jaunty sort of country-glam crossover which is deeply creepy for some reason I can't quite put my finger on. it fires on ... read more

bathhouse jams

my favourite album of all time

starting off into an immediate dive, a rolling a musical dice into a cacophonous blizzard of sound and pontificating only half-measures of words.

narrator speaks as if he is an uber mensch, judging and being judged as his plain and sad existence exemplifies itself through his continual falling into meaningless "stories."

fast, breakneck instruments create an almost crystal meth ... od level of fast pace rushing through life. even on songs that manage a quieter sound, they are ... read more

this is a phenomenal album with absurd reaches, the film is unbelievable and this is nothing short of a robbery.

this is a record of which i am wholly unadept to cover given i trend towards more experimental classical music, know nothing about dylan thomas [not my style], know nothing about the falklands war. what i can say and will say is that the record so far away follows his previous record is due to successfully entering rehabilitation and beginnng his life entirely anew. this was truly the spare wherein cale considered himself and his family far more, and i believe he needed this passion project to ... read more