Luqueasaur

A haunting experience. Blackstar is melancholic and wistful but also oddly calm, as if Bowie accepted his sombre and approaching fate.

In my opinion, the title track is his quitessential swansong: a sprawling epic that visits the whirlwind of emotions one has before their fateful end. It starts with one's difficulty of grasping and accepting their mortality, represented by Bowie's frightened and fragile vocals and the supernatural thematics, followed by an attempt of recomforting through ... read more

For the laymen, jazz's a hit or miss. Kind of Blue's quite the example of that.

You see, I don't get the fuss around it. Neither does a lot of people. I, just like my bunch of Kind-of-Blue skeptics, recognize this is the coolest of the coolest-sounding stuff for the cattest of the cats out there and in general an enjoyable chillout jazz record, but that's how far we're willing to compromise. No big stuff that differentiates it from a sea of other cool-sounding jazz releases. We're not to ... read more

No need to beat around the bush, folks. This is it: progressive rock's apex. Everything the genre stands for is represented in Close to the Edge most triumphantly: bombastic synthesizers, jaw-dropping complexity, classical influences, jazzy elements and a good pinch of innovation through a Yes-ish joviality and lightheartedness. If there's a band that can dillute the somewhat demanding nature of progressive rock into a shoreside sunny conversible ride it is Jon Anderson's delicate vocals and ... read more

Barrett's gone and Pink Floyd lost their psychedelic touch by now but they're mature and so is their sound and thus they follow up the groundbreaking Dark Side of the Moon with an even more groundbreaking Wish You Were Here. Their dissimilarity is glaring: DSotM is a collection of loosely linked ideas and psychedelic experiments whereas WYWH is a fluid space rock soap opera about their uneasiness regarding the long lost Syd mate. In here, Pink Floyd flirts with progressive rock much more ... read more