At best, KAYTRAMINÉ is a great selection of likeable, lyrically sharp summer jams. At worst, KAYTRAMINÉ is a set of uninspired and unnecessarily sparse songs filled with wasted potential. Overall, KAYTRAMINÉ ranks somewhere in the middle.
Skrillex has adapted well to a more current style of electronic music; but Quest For Fire does have its fair share of duds.
As much as I was pleasantly surprised by WEEDKILLER’s great production and Ashnikko’s generally engaging performances- there are some definite low points which sound messy and unpleasant in the bad way.
As much as it doesn’t capture me personally, The Death Of Randy Fitzimmons is definitely classic Hives- and it’s aided by the feeling that the band are genuinely enjoying themselves.
My Big Day is serviceable indie pop and sadly not much more than that.
Very little of V is actually bad- some of it is quite good- but overall the album’s woozy vibes and funky melodies struggle to be anything more than vaguely pleasant.
I’ve Seen A Way has a handful of great tracks which perfectly showcase the potential of the band; but peel back some of the others and you end up with some pretty boring industrial.
After a pretty disappointing first half culminating in the album’s weakest track- the lead single Ride- STROBE.RIP picks itself up immensely, offering up some of the most unsettling, warped, impressive electronic music of the year.
Every so often on For That Beautiful Feeling you get something really good like Live Again or The Darkness That You Fear but you also have to wade through quite a few songs that just don’t really work.
It’s certainly better than Cowboy Tears, and there are some nice songs here. However, too much of Alone In A Crowd is comprised of lyrically poor, frustratingly short tracks that feel like they’re only here just to try and go viral.
The thing that really weighs How Do You Sleep At Night? down for me are the lyrics, which make what would otherwise be a decent album sound incredibly cheesy and at points just plain unlikeable.
UNHEALTHY has a nice mix of OK songs (Haunt You, Unhealthy, Never Loved Anyone Before), some of the worst songs of this decade (Psycho, Cuckoo), and then the rest is mostly just boring.
The opener is amazing, especially Sufjan Stevens’ piano- but the vast majority of the songs on First Two Pages Of Frankenstein are so nondescriptly dry that there’s not really anything to say about them.
A Great Chaos is periodically decent, but its lows are much lower than its highs are high.
The biggest compliment I can give The Brave II is that every so often Adam Calhoun sounds a bit like a shitty Action Bronson.
As much as I admire the ambition of the UK art-rockers’ latest project, and as much as the album itself isn’t by any means bad, Off Planet does have some very boring moments and generally lacks the desired cohesion for the album’s concept.
The Rolling Stones clearly still made this with passion, but that’s probably the best compliment I can give Hackney Diamonds- because this is a meandering, tame album in which the vast majority of songs went on for too long.
With some surprisingly vibrant instrumentation combined with some moving moments, Why Would I Watch manages to be a pretty good pop-punk record.
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