Lemon Demon crafts some very creative and fun indietronica on Spirit Phone. While sure, for me this didn't exactly blow my hair back on first listen, I still had a great time listening through this album and found myself really enjoying it, certainly more than I was expecting to! Neil's use of synthesizers was surprisingly very tasteful and none of the musical ideas presented felt out of place, the lyrics were as nerdy as everyone has said, but to me shock it never felt obnoxious or gimmicky, ... read more

69->82
Did you guys know this album actually invented music??!?!!! I know, it's pretty crazy, but yeah there was no music in the world before this album!! on top of this, the velvet underground actually had to get some guy in a holy temple to specially DESIGN guitars for the usage of this album because instruments weren't even a thing!!!!!!!! gosh, cant believe how revolutionary this album is... i climaxed!

While I think in many respects the offline version of LP! is the preferable way to go about listening to it, I do still think that it carries over some of the structural issues from the online version and even a project like Veteran. They're all very good albums, I've given them all pretty positive ratings, but I do still think that in their own ways each of these projects (including this one) have slight issues with structure and unnecessary excess that hold them back from being amazing. With ... read more

Hiya y'all, so this isn't really a review for this album but since I have next to nothing to say about it, I'm just going to use this review space as a way of getting this message out if that makes sense. Pretty much since the beginning of this year I have been nonstop listening to, reviewing, and talking about music, and after spending so much time committed to this one specific thing, it's begun to get a little boring. What does this mean for this account? In the grand scheme of things, ... read more

i fucking hated it
lucy is disappointed

What Tim Hecker presents on 'Virgins' is certainly interesting, however, it really doesn't have much to offer other than that. I certainly enjoyed it, I thought there were a lot of interesting and experimental ideas, but nothing too insane or anything like that. It was very good, I liked it a lot, I'll probably never listen to it ever again. Great piano work and amazing production though, gotta say.

favorite tracks - JPEGMAFIA TYPE BEAT
least favorites - Wonderwall

[original score 68]
While Peggy certainly has a very unique production style, great flows, and a lot of personality on the mic, no matter how hard I try, I just can't love Veteran. That's not to say it's bad by any means, in fact, I really like it. I think this album starts and finishes great, it's everything in the middle that I take issue with. There are just so many throwaway interludes on this thing and not really enough rapping to keep me engaged for all 19 tracks. Of course whenever there ... read more

If you loved Stereolab's Dots and Loops, you're gonna love this. Super awesome instrumentals pulling from space age pop, art pop, progressive pop and jazz, and it's all topped off with flawless production and lovely vocals. The only way I can see someone being displeased with this album is if you just hate fun.

favorite tracks - Anywhere in Spacetime
least favorites - Because It's Hard to Develop That Capacity on Your Own

Oddly enough, even though AMSP is a record that was so closely tied to a personal experience in Thom Yorke's life, this easily feels like Radiohead's most detached record. I don't mean detached in the emotional sense, I mean detached in a literal physical sense. A lot of the more spacious instrumentals and distant vocals presented here make me feel like I'm floating out in space, free from all pain and suffering. I really loved how few guitars can be heard here, with the majority of the ... read more

Never clicked with me unfortunately. I think the opener is absolutely beautiful and has a tear-jerking quality to it knowing that SOPHIE has now passed on, I think Is It Cold in the Water? is absolutely breathtaking and easily one of the best songs on the record, and Faceshopping is catchy enough, but the rest is either fine or borderline unlistenable for me. I want to love it, don't get me wrong, but SOPHIE's production style has just never fully worked for me.

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it's uh... it's good! obviously needs work, then again it is a demo. the jane remover influence is incredibly obvious,,, almost to a fault, and it would be to a fault if i didn't think that what RiskR does on this track greatly improves upon the sound and ideas that jane presents in their own music. i do promise im not bringing up my score with this one just because im friends with kate, she knows i dont like jane remover's music or their sound in general and i really didn't have anyone to ... read more

Kinda reminded me of Bob Dylan, I liked it. Nice record.

I wanted to give this a 69 so bad, but alas, I actually enjoyed this record quite a lot. Songs About Fucking is, in a word, messy. The recording style of this is very raw, the guitars are noisy as as all hell, and the vocals are so low in the mix that at points it's nearly impossible to make out what's being said. Given the very speedy nature of this record, I would probably believe anyone that told me it was recorded in a single session. However, do not take these things entirely as ... read more

Charles Mingus is physically incapable of making a bad album, and I see that now

Every track here has a flawless flow, transitioning seamlessly from one track to the next, creating a very hypnotizing and beautiful record. The atmosphere of this record is also just very beautiful and in ways it kinda sounds like its cover. For a while I held off on listening to this because I wanted to be able to listen in a perfect, distraction free environment, however as I'm listening through the album while writing this review I can't help but notice how perfectly it fits. It's ... read more

-100th Review!-
Anytime I decide to listen through Bitches Brew, I get taken on a journey. A strange, psychedelic, abstract, but ultimately fulfilling journey into the unknown. In many ways, I think it matches its cover in that sense. Looking at it, nothing really feels all that cohesive or like any of these things should be where they are, yet there's a loose thread tying everything here together, preventing it from feeling like a collection of loose concepts and ideas. Bitches Brew is, by all ... read more

why does he look like he's taking a shit on the cover

While Spiritual Unity is certainly an enjoyable record, I don't find anything all that spiritual about its contents. Really, as far as free jazz goes this is nothing all that new or exciting to me. Even for its time this wasn't really anything new for the genre, especially when right around the same time you had artists such as Coltrane coming out with works like Ascension which is a much better and more well done record than Spiritual Unity is in my opinion. It's not bad, it's just not great.

Every Pharoah Sanders release that I've heard moves forward with a certainty that not many jazz albums have, this doesn't feel like mere improvisation to me, it feels rather purposeful, like every song here is a step forward on the path to a spiritual awakening.

i swear i must be missing something here because clearly there's something about this that people enjoy that i'm just not grasping