One of their best, as BOC prove how great they are at blending guitars and strings with stiff, eerie electronic beats. Genuinely frightening at times yet also weirdly reassuring, 13 years of waiting was worth it! Some beautiful ambient here!

Deserves way more love - what a great album.

Holds up surprisingly well considering its runtime.

A few good songs, and a sea of not much else. Waiting on kanye to fix some songs, especially Preacher Man, to make them better.

A sneeze that never comes.

needed to be said

Without this album, I wouldn't be the person I am today, and for that, I'm grateful for Kid A. Changed my music taste completely and opened me up to loads of different styles of music. Idioteque still hits like crack all these years later.

Legend says they're still deciding to this day.

STC - 4/10
Stutter - 6/10
Comma/Shipping - 7/10
Desks at Dusk - 9/10
Dawn Chorus - 7/10
Horses - 8/10

Very FL Studio-core, but delightfully so. Ninajirachi would definitely go on to more ambitious music not soon after.

Lapland - 60/100
Human - 40/100
Gardenia Pt. I - 40/100
Gardenia Pt. II - 50/100
Pathetic - 50/100
Glass - 40/100
Voss - 60/100

Very bloated; the piano pieces aren't terrible, but they do leave a lot to be desired. And the long tracks go on forever. Cinnamon's cool.

Even at Tame Impala's Lois, he's a family guy.

Musically, I don't think it's as strong as Kanye's earlier records (I can't speak for Cudi). But lyrically, it's often beautiful.

I don't know why, but I don't feel In Rainbows anymore. Going back to it is like seeing an old friend who you've not spoken to in decades; when I first got into Radiohead, I listened to this album a lot. But now, I only really want to go back to Bodysnatchers, Weird Fishes, and Reckoner. Everything else just feels less alive for some reason, like the band are playing it safe. It doesn't make me feel anymore, no matter how many times they play in 5/4.

A very peculiar experience - I haven't heard much post-rock like this, but I'm so glad this album exists. 19 XI is a stunning song, and *** is pleasant to listen to as well. And even the most out there tracks like Piotrek are worth checking out just for the experience.

This is the peak. Swans pivot to a more post-punk like sound, thus this album is closer in sound to their earliest works than White Light or Burning World. But most importantly, these are songs and not no wave marches, which does them a world of good.

So many great tracks here, such as I Am the Sun (even if the production does irk me a bit, why does it fade out so much), Mind/body/Light/Sound, Where Does a Body End?, and the title track. Probably the most "mainstream" Swans ever got ... read more

Love of Life is kind of a sister album to White Light, and it's much of the same, which towards the end can get tiring. But the title track and other songs, like The Other Side of the World and especially No Cure for the Lonely, are worth sticking around for. It's alright, even if it does sit awkwardly between two classics.

Swans truly get going with their seventh album, making for a nice reward after, in my opinion, loads of middling albums to this point. My only main criticism is that some of these songs go on for too long, especially the monotonous Failure and When She Breathes, but otherwise you have a series of powerful, emotional songs which are up there as some of the band's greatest. Especially Love Will Save You and Power and Sacrifice, both of them are majestic.

This album is criminally overhated. I bet the critics only hate it because Talk Talk looked and sounded like Duran Duran clones, and the music nerds only hate it because it's glossy synthpop, not gorgeous post-rock. Both camps are therefore wrong for different reasons.

Because Talk Talk started out as a synthpop band, no doubt about it. And they were good at it. In fact, whilst it's synthpop, it's also far moodier than most 80s bands were. Go listen to Soft Cell and their ... read more

This is Greed part 2. Much of the same deal, you even have a slightly new version of Fool (which is very similar to the first one). Don't let the tracklist fool you (pun unintended), though, Money Is Flesh 2 is identical to Money is Flesh off of Greed (on streaming, anyways). Why they did that, I have no idea.

In a way, this album is a very, very slight improvement over Greed, but the no wave shtick is growing thin after four very similar albums in mood. I know it was recorded around the ... read more

The nadir of Swans's music so far. If you were a Swans fan in 1986, you'd probably love this record, I mean it sounds like the last two but with slightly less aggression! The repeating piano motif in Fool shows they're changing sound, but god is it annoying to listen to for five whole minutes!

There's nothing really interesting in this album, no real progression aside from glimpses here and there. And I get that no wave Swans both isn't for everyone and isn't ... read more