As the title suggests, this is indeed a bottomless pit and that's exactly where all my complaints with this album are to be found, as it's bottomless it's not grounded and in this case that means I just don't know where to stand or find myself in this void. I feel like I'm surrounded by great and blood-lustful music but am lost beyond that and not in the most of positive sense. I might be found in quite solitude on this opinion as it's the precise intention of Death Grips and they went to ... read more

Tom Waits is one of those artists everyone knows but not enough people might "know". Here he proves worth as one of the most legendary artists of our previous century. Rain Dogs is a dirty , washed out album with just a touch of clean to root for it. In short it's a strong compilation of 19 varied songs, poems and ballads all overpalmed with the hand of an artist who plays this offbeat album like a puppetmaster half in control , half hazed out of all.
It's full on Tom Waits from the ... read more

Grilling with atmospheric air, Calexico bathes in the deepest en richest side of Mexican sounds, and the most vivid and classiest ones I must add. Joyfully using the clichés and familiar sounds as templates to conduct great instrumental pieces on. And the best thing about this album is a pure embrace of those old-fashioned Mariachi canciones. It is not really tightly packaged and some songs are overdue or break this beautiful circle of slow roasted joy but for an album with such pleasing ... read more

Flowered up and then bleached a bit out is how I'd describe Paracosm ( the first work I've heard from Washed Out ). It doesn't shine as much as it wants because of that but still a good laid-back experience and leaves the album to remain perfectly lukewarm. If the genre chillwave doesn't flow well and feels even jarring in the slightest it's often unworthy as its genre and that's Paracosm's strength : a great ocean-like flow that never pushes or pulls only rolls back and forth in its own ... read more

I had high expectations from Canned Heat, for I thought about the lovable goofballs that made classic songs like on the road again and going up the country a.k.a. the classics. Man, was I dissapointed that they were basically just one of those bands that Frank Zappa parodied in the late 60s. This is yet another clueless 1960s psychedelic rock album that seems to be stuck in the haunting swing of the era rather than something that pushes itself any further than that. Yes, it sometimes explodes ... read more

BVSC makes music that not only exudes itself from speakers but music that lingers like stillwater in the air. What unique sound they must produce. This kind of music is only possible due to a particular mix of musical ingredients but the illusion is quickly ruined if there is leaned too heavily on whatever one. It corners itself as streetmusic but with the skill of professional Salsa artists, the vividness of a Bolero and the effortless flow of a Jazz.

Homegrown from Southern American obscure ... read more

Junk & Funk : DJ shadow bundles all the clichés of then contemporary hip-hop and...... makes something strangely artistic of it. "Thereby I must make a note that artistic isn't inherently good and vice versa". The roots grow as far as hip hop has existed and they continue to embed the genre to this day on. It's not just straight and clearly hiphop but it's also urban funk , experimental instrumentals with a pinch of Shoegaze for the extra. But above all it rises above the ... read more

I think Burial to be an album with either an emotional rise or an emotional descent interwoven and I can't figure out which one would be more correct. One thing is certain, in Burial the listener is trapped in a cryptic , sharp and dark world that loosely crosses over ambient music and dubstep. It's a downpulling experience that masquerades as a light hearted tour de force of softcore electronic ambience.
It's late night music, each song feels the same in a strange way but at the same time each ... read more

The stamp of Green Day and thereby a good portion of the punk rock genre was established with "Dookie". Which is a great birthmark of it's movement which seems cliche, dated but still charming today with all the absurdist tweaks and stocky repetitive rock included but it's also a lot of filler atop a tame mess of music. All by all, these two views are the two sides of the same coin so my take was to try to filter what I enjoy and ignore the rest.
It brashly embodies Green Day and ... read more

A not so somber distillation of anxiety and relief in the form of a two hour slow burning album that isn't made for everyone. Some may call this type of ambience emotionless and plain boring but some may find this endlessly calming and comforting in a way few albums can. I am personally of the belief the latter view locks in better with me but the former does reside with me when I'm listening to this album so it's a mixed bag generally on the right path.
The sounds are long and striking as they ... read more

Out of step is only 22 minutes long but already feels worn out by the end. Apart from some sweet basslines and little solo's I found this album to be a rather meager experience. I'm a hardcore punk fan as much as the next guy but there has got to be something in there above rebellious guitar, frantic drums and a shouting singer and I found this exactly but not in the best fashion or covered into something special. I'm not saying simplicity or vanilla albums can't be great but I prefer a reason ... read more

Yes, my profile picture is the great corny legend that is Marty Robbins, the posterchild of gunslinging. Personally, I think this album cover hose should be even more famous than it is but this obviously isn't the place to discuss profile pictures of cowboys. Gunfighter ballads and trail songs has the simplest of covers, the simplest of titles and is so very straightforward an old sweet cowboy piece of music. Oh, this album sells itself on it's charming camp and nostalgia but it's able to push ... read more

Please Please Please, please give me the James Brown from his later career to listen to, when he didn't feel restricted by tight genre conventions and tame clichés. I'm not saying this is bad music at all, but I do am saying there's a talented voice asking to be released from this cheerful 1950s soul escapade. The best thing in return is that his voice is loud, the clear front and center of the album but his voice isn't made to be caged in transitional rock n' roll to soul music.

These ... read more

I'm not a big fan of Shoegaze but I make an exception for certain bands like Ride, who in my opinion do know how to value the genre better than most. They are able to trap you in their hypnotic edgy world with stretched out singing and dim feelings all the way in. That being said : the outlines are thick and well defined but the content is too lightheaded for it's own good and I do feel that softened mood hinders it for me to really hit home.

There is a personality that drives Going Blank ... read more

A metronome couldn't keep up the pace of what Major Lazer & Co try to accomplish in such a short time. Apocalypse Now is a mediocre album about eight steps away from being a great one. It's not bland, I'll give it that but all it eccentric or interested elements are sidelined in favour of dancy kicks that seem aiming to entertain Adhd kiddos.

There is an alt-spin on the whole dancehall genre and it is helmed by Major Lazer who I consider a likeable enough artist to produce something better ... read more

The pace of Get Happy was often streets ahead and the pop is boosted to the limits of 1980 to a point of being a frantic carnival unconsciously celebrating it's own time period . The result is softly twisted and sometimes inconsistent bundle of songs that seem to never really get happy. And that's an interesting motif on this album, the wild goosechase and overly energetic abrasiveness of Costello all seems to be an instant gratification search for happiness rather than actual ... read more

This album has the hots for its own swing. That's basically what it does : it swings -- flair and jam-packed Latin energy are exhuberant in Gypsy Woman, this is hedonist music for sure. It's good old "Cha-Cha-Cha" Mambo with a vibe of soul and boogaloo spliced in.

Joe Bataan has the voice of a suave crooner and is thrown into the melodic sexiness that is Gypsy Woman. It's great music to play at the energetic fancy club of town with it having exotic and upbeat flavour shaken into a ... read more

Chet Atkins is one of the greatest technical guitarists of all time, but what has he got in the artistic sack when he's stranded on his own? He has a happy//sad and idilic dream in the form of Chet Atkins... in Hollywood. An artist who refuses to rebel or conform he plays within his own ground and does this very well. As a man who can't blend in, he sure does stand out, his surroundings don't shape or form Atkins but they follow his lead at all times. He's an autharian lead guitarist but is ... read more

In praise of this album I present a score of a measly 13 out of 100. It's quoted "accidental art" and that's the most hilarious thing about it. It's basically some loser kids who managed to afford a short studio session, brought themselves, their instruments and their tame hippie clothes but they forgot their talent far away at home. What's even funnier is that it gets progressively worse and worse throughout the album. I'd call it a guilty pleasure but my devil and angel on my ... read more

This album is the best "bad trip" you'll ever have. Donating a rating to an album like Trout Mask Replica is about as useful as a knitted condom but as I'm 95% sure I 100% love it, that's the rating it'll get from me. My father introduced me to this fever dream a couple of years ago and to me it sounded like a bag full of instruments and chords violently shaken up and spat out with the term "music" labeled on itself. Much later came the realisation how meticulous and precise ... read more