Nina Persson must have liked this, it’s the 60s First Band On the Moon!!

A highly provocative, masterfully mixed and written piece of art that further demonstrates how important R.E.M are to the collection of art to come out of the United States.

Instrumentation is playful and colourful!! Action Bronson and The Alchemist are excellent on Lamb Over Rice.

By definition, this last collection from Cash's 'American' collection is bittersweet. Its intensely difficult to separate this piece of art from the frailness of Cash's voice; unwavering in its stare toward death.

Released the year before Cash were to die, 'American IV' is a fantastic final instalment of a series of albums that bookends Cash's official living catalogue. Harboured with stripped country covers of classic folk songs like Lennon's 'In ... read more

Pushing out of the art colleges with their shaggy bowl cuts and loose swaying psychedelia, Blur, who had only recently changed their name from Seymour, emerged with the single in 1990 'She's So High'. As the official opener for both the band and the album, 'She's So High' enforces most of what comes from these early stages for Blur. The lyricism is youthfully explorative, somewhat flirtatious and psychedelic. Coxon's vast board of compositional gadgets mash ... read more

I want to get this. I really do, but most ambient stuff is beautiful because of its respect for space. I don’t feel this album wants to invite you, which is not a bad thing, but it feels too targeted. Also ORANGE. Wtf is that.

Where does Stuart Murdoch put a foot wrong here? Not often, is the answer.

What started as a government funded program for youthful Scots in the 90s evolved into Belle and Sebastian, who, for many teens like the band themselves, found their lives evolving and growing in a way naturally labyrinthian. At the heart of what makes this record so potent, with its somewhat whimsical storytelling of youthful anecdotes, is its accuracy and understanding of shattered innocence and exploration. ... read more

This project is packed with infectious hooks and melodies. Supergrass never fail to entertain themselves with their playful compositions, lyricism and collaging of differing styles. Their heaviness is never forced too harsh, there is no Drop C fuzz chugging, just hard hitting hooks that are a testament to how joyfully simplistic this kind of pop can be. At the same time, there are intricacies in Mick Quinn's basslines that would be sin to have omitted from my review. Similar can be said ... read more

Led Zeppelin achieve what most rock bands do with 5 albums within the first side of this album. It simply is the most flamboyant, heavy display of hard rock songwriting available. And that's just side one.

This album can appear somewhat bloated and overwritten, most noticeably on the track 'Montaigne'. The electronic aspect of the album normally work just fine, but can be awfully repetitive. Mostly though, this album offers some warmly dark tones of indie rock that is unseen from their contemporaries.

Also, 'Tripoli' is a fantastic track.

Not sure what Lorraine Ali is on about. This album is very unappreciated from an overlooked band who offered more than mindless chugging, unlike some of their contemporaries.

At it's best, 'Purple' is a huge leap in quality from their first effort. It still offers heavy hooks and plenty of head-banging tracks such as the opener, 'Meatplow', 'Vasoline', 'Silvergun Superman' and 'Unglued'. They're somewhat more simplistically crafted ... read more

This project moves between smooth, spacious spaces with introspective, poignant lyrics and rigid, rough sounding tracks filled with energy and punch.

Fairly tight and modern sounding chamber pop. This effort is a comforting, groovy listen but lacks some final product and does not introduce Guryan as a chief, individual songwriter. Love her vocals though!

'Begin' thoroughly deserves to be held within the same grand halls as its contemporaries. Released just four months after The Zombies magnus opus 'Odessey and Oracle', The Millennium's first effort offers similar bright and introspective songwriting, I would even suggest it is tighter, from an instrumental and conceptual point of view, than 'Odessey'.

The first half of the album rolls from track to track smoothly, albeit somewhat unconsciously. This element ... read more

Masterful

I was certain to be blown away by this project, but I'm really not. This album is fantastic, of course it is, it's instrumentation and philosophy come across well but I think I put this album on a pedestal before I had listened. The same pedestal as In An Aeroplane Over The Sea, but this is not as good.

Far less impressive as it's predecessor, but still ambitious and intriguing. The instrumentation is beautifully crafted but can fall somewhat boring as it is abused across the project.

+5 for Love Spreads. Otherwise this is drab and boring. I understand this album is always viewed withing the remit of their first effort, which can be somewhat unfair, but a group of this quality producing a project as disappointing as this is hard to separate from their previous album's greatness.

The mix is grim, it barks as the exit from a dog castration room does. Evidently this is simply a sentiment of this genre of music, of which can be done much more pleasantly. This project mostly offers an interesting ride though, and has some poetic qualities that were surprising and fun.

Thanks RobiBlueX for the recommendation!

Firstly, I must declare my first language is English and I do not understand Polish! This is not an eligibility to be ignorant to the music though, yet I feel it necessary to say as I fear I am missing parts of the narrative and context outside of instrumentation.

Overall though, this project was mostly pretty jarring. Some of the instrumentation really jumps at you, harshly and often. There are moments of dreaminess and space, yet it usually falls ... read more