Discography Diaries #5: Black Sabbath
Album #6: Sabotage
Genre: Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
Date: 21/08/2020
Time: 3:30 PM

It's time for the 6th album in Black Sabbath's discography, Sabotage. Up to this point Black Sabbath have just been coming out with consistent bodies of work and delivering us some incredibly memorable tracks, I would hope the same would be the case with Sabotage. The latest stuff from them has been a bit more expansive in what they were trying to do sonically, the most ... read more

Discography Diaries #6: NOT GOODS
Album #1: New English by Desiigner
Genre: Hip Hop, Trap Rap
Date: 21/08/2020
Time: 2:20 PM

So I wasn't planning on doing this edition of the discography diaries for a while until I realised the plethora of albums, mixtapes and EPs that I'm going to have get through until I finish, so I thought "okay, let's just go ahead, do this and get it over with". So for this edition I've decided to not focus on a certain band or artist but rather a certain theme ... read more

'The Shape of Jazz to Come' is a creative and important record in avant garde and free jazz, while I don't enjoy it all the way through I can respect what Ornette Coleman was trying to do on here. It comes off a bit jarring on first listen but I'm sure that's subject to change. I appreciate Coleman as a saxophonist and his great improvisations among these compositions. I guess I wasn't interested in two tracks but I have a couple of standouts and it's a solid record nonetheless.

Discography Diaries #5: Black Sabbath
Album #5: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Genre: Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
Date: 20/08/2020
Time: 6:25 PM

So yeah, we're continuing on with the dive through Black Sabbaths discography with the bands 5th album, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. So far Black Sabbaths output has been nothing but great, they keep pumping out solid project after solid project and I would hope they'd do the same with Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. I'd also hope that they'd try to toy with new sounds and ... read more

Charles Mingus creates an album that strives to be an outstanding force for its time, 'Mingus Ah Um' oozes charisma and displays incredible playing across the board, culminating to make not only a fun record, but a boundary pushing one too. The arrangements and compositions are fantastic, they're accompanied by some creative and well played improvisation and it all comes off natural to the respective musicians. It sounds like it hasn't aged a single day either and that alone proves how timeless ... read more

Discography Diaries #5: Black Sabbath
Album #4: Vol. 4
Genre: Heavy Metal
Date: 19/08/2020
Time: 3:00 PM

Moving on we get to talk about the fourth album from Black Sabbath, Vol. 4. So the first three Black Sabbath albums are incredible to say the least, they contained some great pieces of music that had some great playing, memorable songs and the first two were groundbreaking in creating the Metal genre. Those albums were the only ones that I had heard prior to my dive, so it's all new ... read more

'Blue Train' is an exciting, complex and well crafted hard bop album, it's a culmination of some of the best work 50s Jazz has to offer, it has some of the best musicians of their respective instruments and it all works in the best of ways. John Coltrane composed a collection of songs that are fun as hell to listen to and played with incredible proficiency, as a saxophonist Coltrane is impeccable and he led these talented musicians to do the same, it's easy to see why this album is held in high ... read more

Discography Diaries #5: Black Sabbath
Album #3: Master of Reality
Genre: Heavy Metal
Date: 18/08/2020
Time: 2:30 PM

Let's see if Black Sabbath can continue a streak of great albums with their 3rd studio album, Master of Reality. The first two Black Sabbath records are great to say the least, they contained some great songs that had brilliant basslines from Geezer, excellent drumming from Ward, memorable riffs and killer solos from Iommi and enigmatic and iconic performances from Ozzy ... read more

Jazz. A genre that I often gravitated towards and appreciated, but a genre that I knew very little about in terms of it's greatest minds and it's greatest bodies of work, I want to change that and I start that change with arguably the most iconic of them all, Miles Davis and his most iconic work Kind of Blue.

I found about about Miles Davis when I was skulking through various websites searching for what people often considered the greatest artists of all time, the greatest albums of all time ... read more

Discography Diaries #5: Black Sabbath
Album #2: Paranoid
Genre: Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
Date: 17/08/2020
Time: 12:30

Continuing on with my dive through through Black Sabbath's discography, we're on their sophomore album, Paranoid. Another one of Black Sabbath's albums that I've heard prior to my dive and one that I remember loving, the first Black Sabbath album is fantastic to say the least, it was inventive for it's time and it kicks ass overall, so I'd imagine that normally people wouldn't ... read more

Discography Diaries #5: Black Sabbath
Album #1: Black Sabbath
Genre: Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
Date: 16/08/2020
Time: 1:00 PM

Let's begin! It's time for a brand new saga in the Discography Diaries. I've been meaning to check out this bands catalogue for the longest time but I didn't despite me loving the records that I've heard from them previously and the fact that I even got to see them live on their final tour in 2017, that band of course is Black Sabbath. Often credited as the godfathers of ... read more

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Discography Diaries #4: David Bowie
Album #24: Blackstar
Genre: Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Jazz Rock
Date: 13/08/2020
Time: 7:10 PM

It's finally time, we've made through the entirety of David Bowie's core discography, it's just time to talk about the final album, David Bowie's 24th studio album, Blackstar. So yeah, if you've kept up with my reviews of Bowie's discography, you'll know that I love a lot of David Bowie's work, he has so many masterpieces in my opinion, he has his fair share of ... read more

Discography Diaries #4: David Bowie
Album #23: The Next Day
Genre: Art Rock
Date: 13/08/2020
Time: 5:30 PM

It's almost time to conclude this chapter of the discography diaries, we only have two more left in David Bowie's lengthy discography and we first must talk about his 23rd album, The Next Day. Around the time David Bowie released this album he'd been on a ten year hiatus, the longest one he ever took in his career, he returned with The Next Day and my hopes going into it were high ... read more

Discography Diaries #4: David Bowie
Album #22: Reality
Genre: Art Rock
Date: 12/08/2020
Time: 7:00 PM

3 MORE TO GO! It's time to talk about David Bowie's 22nd album, Reality. I feel like that album cover shouldn't exist in this reality [please laugh]. So going into Reality all I wanted was another good album, I feel like the last leg of albums should be of quality and after listening to Reality it's actually not bad at all, it's actually pretty decent.

Reality essentially continues on with ... read more

Discography Diaries #4: David Bowie
Album #21: Heathen
Genre: Art Rock
Date: 12/08/2020
Time: 1:15 PM

Today we see ourselves on David Bowie's 21st album, Heathen. We're close to closing out David Bowie's discography and to say the least he has one of the most interesting discographies that I've had the pleasure of diving into, there's a couple of albums that I would consider duds but he has so many great albums that outweigh those duds. Going into Heathen I wasn't sure what I was expecting, ... read more

Discography Diaries #4: David Bowie
Album #20: Hours...
Genre: Art Rock
Date: 11/08/2020
Time: 5:00 PM

It's time for album number 20 in David Bowie's discography, "Hours...". Given that David Bowie's discography had taken a massive leap in terms of quality with his last two releases Earthling and Outside, I would hope that Bowie would keep up a consistent momentum going into Hours..., I wouldn't mind seeing Bowie experiment a bit more but it more or less seems that Bowie has just ... read more

Discography Diaries #4: David Bowie
Album #19: Earthling
Genre: Art Rock, Alternative Dance
Date: 11/08/2020
Time: 11:45 AM

We're nearing the end of David Bowie's discography with 5 albums left after this one, Bowie's 19th studio album, Earthling. David Bowie's last effort Outside was a much needed pick me up for Bowie, as prior to that album Bowie has been dropping some pretty lackluster material, Outside saw Bowie go back to his art rock sound while adding an industrial twist to it, one ... read more

Discography Diaries #4: David Bowie
Album #18: Outside
Genre: Art Rock
Date: 10/08/2020
Time: 6:30 PM

So yeah, we see ourselves on David Bowie's 18th album, Outside. If you've been keeping up with my reviews on Bowie you'll know I haven't been enjoying his output since Tonight, I felt like the era after Let's Dance was a depression era of sorts that just saw Bowie pumping out mediocre album after mediocre album, I didn't really have much hope going into Outside as I thought we'd be getting ... read more