Eclectic, interesting and bombastic at times, this Jean Dawson record is a great example of how ingenious he can be.

It's okay. Respect to him though for trying to make something artsy and not chasing hits after Million Dollar Baby and Devil Is a Lie popped off, and not even adding those songs to this album.

Chat Pile taps into the same rage about modern-day society as they did on their debut, and it pays off again.

Cutouts has tracks that are mildly the same vibe as Wall of Eyes (due to obvious reasons) and just feels like a decent deluxe version to that album to be honest. While the songs themselves are all good to great they fail to stand out for me compared to the bands other two albums.

I don't hate this as much as I expected to while going in, considering Music of the Spheres was a bit of a dumpster fire. The production and songwriting are a bit better again and some moments remind me of a Parachutes-esque sound, which is really not the worst thing Coldplay could be aiming for at this point.

I absolutely love Godspeed, and this record is again no miss. Their last record was a bit of a return to form already but this completes the upward trajectory. It's filled with their usual schtick, which is alternating between meandering moments and devastating guitar crescendos. And it rocks.

An incredible progressive death metal record that blew me away. I was familiar with this band up this point, but I hadn't listened to any of their records yet. Seeing the positive feedback to this one made me curious and man, what a bomb this is. It's the soundtrack to a journey to Mordor, or to outer space. An epic experience only made better the more knowledge of the genre you have, because they use every death metal trope on here and expand on it. A blast.

It has A Forest, which is among my favorite The Cure songs, and the rest of the record is interesting enough. It's the musical equivalent to realizing you're slowly falling asleep, while still having vivid imagination.

It took so long for me to realize the cover art is a close-up of lips. Jesus. It makes sense though considering the themes of this record mostly being centered around love and bordering into obsession. Kind of an underrated record by the band.

A fun, quirky post-punk helping from The Cure with a newfound level of happiness contrasting an album like Pornography. The songwriting took a bit of a hit in the process though.

It's so nice to hear how their sound evolved from Seventeen Seconds to this to Pornography. It gets darker and darker, and the songwriting gets better and better.

Clearly a project where they didn't know where to go with their sound, the band remains strange but withholds their better ideas on this album.

Pop's next big thing drops her debut record and it's serviceable but ultimately I'll take Espresso and Taste from this and leave.

EDIT: why the actual fuck did I think this was her debut. I am a terrible reviewer. Just for that I'll go 50 -> 55

None of the interesting and exhilarating elements of her past work make it onto this posthumous release.

First couple of tracks are very solid, until Plutoski signals that the rest of the album is going to be boring drab.

Like stepping into a different dimension... incomparable, incredible soundscapes with sampling at the level of gods.

A raw, unfinished prototype of what would later become Rodeo's signature drugged-out sound. It's a very solid career starter and one of Fantano's L's.

I just don't care for this at all... it's ultra-generic pop country with a lot of mediocre features. I understand Post is doing this because he likes it and I applaud that he wants to do different genres but at least make good music man. This is bad.

Piano G, to no-one's surprise at this point, drops some mid.

It's the album Logic announced years ago and we all thought wouldn't ever come out. And it's probably his best post-retirement release. It's consistent, it's snappy, it's fun. It contains Logic's personality and key characteristics. It is only bogged down by a bit of bloat.