Exudes 2001, energetic and dancable, yet relaxing.

Kylie has a beautiful voice, perfect for an 00s dance pop record. Love At First Sight, Can't Get You Out of My Head, Come Into My World, and In Your Eyes are so damn good.

But amazingly, there is no low point anywhere on this entire record; every other track is really solid. This album has crazy consistency.

Albeit, it does get just a bit samey. That and the lyricism here isn't exactly mind-blowing. Does it need to be? No, suppose ... read more

I must confess... it is good.

The first four tracks here are star-studded, if every song were as good as those this would be a top tier album. Amazing samples, amazing glittery beats that sound 20 years ahead of their era.

Honestly there isn't a song here that I really dislike, although I do think the rest of the album with the exeption of Jump and How High are noticably less catchy and less interesting in production and flow. Still, they work very well together as one cohesive ... read more

After all this time... I still don't know what makes a board of Canada different than a board from any other country.

It's actually making me tear up listening to this again. It really is just that amazing. It's everything and more.

Blood In The Labyrinth might be a top 5 downtempo song of all time, and it has to compete with Likufanele and WALKING IN THE RHYTHM. It's like that one HIVEMIND bit: that sitar that comes in right before the drop, yeah, that's my G-spot. ... read more

Watt brings about yet another career rebound, and Paul proves himself once again.

As You Lie There makes a statement: Paul is doing what you thought vocally impossible of an 83 year old, and the production is putting the psychedelic back into psychedelic pop. Roaring fuzz guitars, very unorthodox chord progression, but seriously, that voice. How does he do that. That was my biggest worry regarding this album; the man is damn old, and I heard him on SNL 50, he did not have the range to sing his ... read more

Alright, I must admit. I like this Kim Petras album.

I wouldn't describe myself as a Kim hater, but I'm not generally a Kim enjoyer. But seeing as her ratings have been on the comeup and this has been the year of electropop domination, I thought I might as well give it a go.

And I mudt say, I thought there were some rock solid moments on this thing! Freak It, I Like Your Look, Need For Speed, those tracks go hard. Catchy as hell, endlessly replayable.

Some of the other songs here ... read more

Beyoncé: Master of Momentum

Seriously, this album does not let that ball stop rolling. Nestled in the 20's dance revolution is a dance-pop album to rival all: RENAISSANCE. What by this point by all means should be Beyoncé's late era feels like her prime era, continuing for at least a decade straight with no stopping. That kind of career momentum is scarcely achieved by anyone else, and that motion of her career comes across in the album structure.

This album starts ... read more

👁️❤️MY🖥️

This project is right in the middle of the dance renaissance running through the decade right now. I mean seriously, I thought brat would lead to a couple of electro house / dance records in its style and that would be the crux of it. But now that we're in 2026 and, counting Bloodluxe, 4 of the 5 highest rated albums this year have been dance music. Clearly the craze was more than I anticipated. Hell, Kim Petras is making good music again, slayr and underscores went ... read more

Cool, but kinda silly at parts.

Syncopation is amazing, the obvious and only true heavy-hitter on this album. Busy yet beautiful, thoroughly ahead of its era, very glittery and relaxing.

Song of The Second Moon is cool but ultimately novel, and everything else is quite out-there. That's not to say its all bad, but I find it hard to enjoy casually. I yearn for more songs like Syncopation, and occasionally you see that peak through in parts, but mostly this album lends confusion and ... read more

Now that's what I'm talking about. Smooth like Vaseline.

This is pennultimate coitus music. Seriously. This rivals Stereolab, it rivals Marvin Gaye, hard to find a better bee-bird combo album than this. Luther is absolutely killing it start to finish.

Songs like Never Too Much, Sugar and Spice, She's a Super Lady and A House Is Not a Home are absolutely bomb, killer pieces of music with a lot of energy, great hook writing and excellent singing. These tracks are Luther on the ... read more

EVERYBODY GET DOWN TONIGHT! KEEP THE BOOGIE ALRIGHT!

MJ's big solo break! Yes, even today it holds up.

The highs here are high, big time. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, Rock With You, Off The Wall, Burn This Disco Out, they're amazing masterworks of music that together propped up the entire genre of disco from almost certain death.

However, songs like Girlfriend and She's Out Of My Life did not similarly prop these up. I hate to say it but these songs retract from ... read more

Yall are lame as hell, this song is beautiful

What would have been one song on ILDMLFY are three songs here.

Alright. I made a prediction that this album would be Peggy's Donda, and I was definitely right, but there is an album that feels more comparable; this is his Don't Tap That Glass. It feels like a waypoint in Peggy's discography, a side project that bridges between ILDMLFY and whatever comes next. I think that is what it's supposed to be... maybe.

One thing is clear right off the bat though. The tracks are too ... read more

Feels like a dollar record you would find at a used record store, but with a healthy electronic dosage mixed in.

This album is airy and whimsical, as any good space age pop should be. Moon Gas, Isn't It Odd, Imagination and Bye Bye Blues are the clear highlights here. It feels like every acoustic orchestral instrument here is paired with an electronic instrument of a similar tone and space in the mix. The electronic drums with real tribal drums on the first track is a pretty great ... read more

Aliens made this, you're not gonna convince me otherwise. I want to believe...

This is pretty damn cool for 1955. Bizzare weirdcore soundscapes straight out of the nuclear fear of the era, Ferrante & Teicher use bizzare "piano-stuffing" techniques, i.e. they put cardboard, wood blocks, rubber wedges, really anything they could thin of inside their pianos to make acoustic effects on the piano. Despite as it sounds, this album suprisingly contains zero electronic instruments; ... read more

Deeply relaxing, a hallmark of psychedelic folk music.

Dave Bixby is a name I've never heard until today, but I ought to have; this is really something else. Something about the warmth and safety of this guitar, the rises and falls in intensity of his strumming, the reverberation on Bixby's soothing voice, it all comes together to make a really amazing atmosphere that feels spaceous, and yet lush and soft.

Though many of these songs blend into one another, they are nonetheless ... read more

The sound collage early birds! Suprised this hasn't gotten more attention.

These guys did Revolution 9 before Revolution 9, and honestly, they did it *better*. Yeah, I actually do like The American Way of Love better than Revolution 9, I think it has more of an arc to it, its more melodic, arguably stranger and more bold.

This album does actually have some moments that feel very White Album. Stranded in Time has that string transition to psych rock flow really nailed down.

Theres a lot ... read more

A warm welcome to summer.

Relaxing, sunny goodness is what The Millenium has to offer with their classic 1968 album Begin. Unfortunately the public must have disagreed for Begin was also their end. One album and none other.

The lyric writing is very psychedelic and strange, it can have this uneasy vibe to it at times that adds more to the underground, forgotten feel this album has.

The productionis amazing here. Keith Olsen went on to do Fleetwood Mac production, and you can kinda hear it. ... read more

I AM FALLING... INTO THE QUICKSAND... OF MY *TROUBLED MIND*...

Like everyone else, yes, I think Mind Flowers is amazing. For 1967 this is well, well ahead of the curb. Honestly doesn't even sound like 60s psychedelia as much as a grizzly heavy underground psych band of the 00s. All of those guys heard this album and said "yeah let's do that".

I think there's a lot more on offer than just that though! Jazz Thing has this really relaxing jazz undertone to it, Gilded ... read more

JOHN COLTRANE DEEP DIVE #47

Yeah, for completeness sake, I'm reviewing this one too.

It's the same deal really, although I do think this take is marginally less dissonant and marginally more intentful, which in my book makes it slightly better.

Go read my review on Edition I; my thoughts on this are relatively the same as my thoughts over there.

JOHN COLTRANE DEEP DIVE #46

This album is difficult, be prepared.

I can't lie, the first time I listened to this I was out and about. I've been having ringing in my ear for two days, coming and going unprompted. I was stressed and busy, and I decided to listen to the next Coltrane album on my list in hopes of making me feel less stressed. Needless to say, I did not like this album on first listen.

If you want to enjoy this you cannot be going about your day listening to it; these ... read more