holy smoakes

THREE STARS:
Ex-Ravers
Total Recall
Second Life

(LISTENED TO ON MAY 25th 2026)

i mess with the idea of it all, broadcasting most of these songs live from a telephone network around late 1994, kinda like an impromptu album rollout

THREE STARS:
Eyes Pop - Skin Explodes - Everybody Dead
Tired
A Study of Six Guitars

(LISTENED TO ON MAY 23rd 2026)

there's like a sense of familiarity to these tracks but they're threatening as fuck too, like really REALLY threatening

THREE STARS:
Reach For the Dead
Jacquard Causeway
New Seeds

(LISTENED TO ON MAY 23rd 2026)

a lil generic at some points but comes into its own in a few songs

THREE STARS:
Mine To Give
Solaris
Halogen

(LISTENED TO ON MAY 26th 2026)

"I'm as ready as I'll ever be."

TWO STARS:
Moya
BBF3 (A.K.A. Blaise Bailey Finnegan III)

bro why are yall hatin and middin it its good stuff damn!

THREE STARS:
After Hours
Altered Beast
Chick Lit

this some good rock, i like it

THREE STARS:
Needles in the Camel's Eye
On Some Faraway Beach
Here Come the Warm Jets

your printer's gonna love this one

even then, maybe not since you cant even tell two tracks apart
rating 21 because 9 + 10 is 21

no three stars

dammit i think im a sucker for trance music

THREE STARS:
Euro Dollar Yen
Born Ready
Silk Road

Great first listen, 13 years for sure justifies a sharp change in sound. Its like a mashup of rock, trip hop, hauntology, and western themes to make one album.

THREE STARS:
Naraka
Deep Time
You Retreat In Time And Space

this is like being a pirate and finding buried treasure on the island and finding an existential crisis inside

THREE STARS:
The Pretender
A Pact Between Strangers
When I Get Back From New York

(NOTE THAT I LISTENED TO THE REISSUE)
maybe one of the biggest switch-ups in sound post-underworld and pre-radiohead. sounds like game-changing stuff

THREE STARS:
Passenger
Change (In the House of Flies)
Pink Maggit

p.s. while writing the post script, i had an epiphany. originally, i was gonna write that back to school was a redundant song. it still might be so, but i think pink maggit re-reading the lyrics might be one of the most genius way to tie up an album even if it wasn't ... read more

about good memories turning sad? maybe. about some dude at a campfire progressively tripping his balls off? meh ill take the brothers word for it. either way, fantastic all-time contender.

THREE STARS:
Chromakey Dreamcoat
Dayvan Cowboy
Hey Saturday Sun

p.s. bought this album on cd in april of 2024, shelved it until today, dont know what took me so long!

a crazy heavy ass album that gets more demented as you go along

THREE STARS:
Suite-Pee
Sugar
P.L.U.C.K. (Politically Lying, Unholy, Cowardly Killers)

absolute bullshit but like the absolute fun kind of absolute bullshit

THREE STARS:
Diarrhea Inferno Welfare Burrito
You Have Cankles
Brendan Fraser

not as mind bending as i expected it to be, but worthwhile nonetheless. feels more like a collection of ideas than a coherently ordered album

THREE STARS (GI):
1
8
9

THREE STARS (GII):
10
14
18

THREE STARS (GIII):
19
24
27

THREE STARS (GIV):
28
34
36

guitars and xylophones and guitars and xylophones and pianos and weird vocal samples and guitars

THREE STARS:
Stanley Kubrick
Burn Girl Prom Queen
Rage: Man

dangit! now i feel like sleeping in a coffin and frequenting a hot topic!

THREE STARS:
In the Flat Field
Bela Lugosi's Dead
Mask

absolutely caustic glitchy symphonies invading my earholes and i like it

THREE STARS:
IV VV IV VV VIII
SURRIPERE
V-PROC

havent lost a step with their 1989 showing, i liked it

THREE STARS:
Fine Time
Round & Round
Mr. Disco