Not much to say in regards to this one since it's widely regarded as a classic, instead just going to say that Gerard screaming "Wake up!" despite being almost entirely drowned out by the wall of sound on Sleep is one of the most devastating things I've ever heard. Maybe I'll write a full review one day but I still feel like I'm in no position to try and describe what this masterpiece means to me.

favorite tracks - This Is How I Disappear, Welcome to Hot Topic, Mama
least favorites - ... read more

Arguably Coltrane's most impressive outing at the time, Giant Steps shows a more experimental and progressive side to Coltrane's music, showing from early on that he wanted to push the boundaries of the genre, something that he accomplished to even greater lengths later down the road. With that being said, I do still feel that those later works are superior, as Giant Steps was at its core just a stepping stone to albums like A Love Supreme, Ascension, Meditations, etc. although with that being ... read more

fun for the whole family

Bob Dylan really manages to pull together some much more well written and well sung songs on his second album. While the vocal performances here are still not great, the things he's singing about matched with his delivery work surprisingly well and I enjoyed it a lot more here. The songwriting here deals with some surprisingly dark subject matter for the 60s touching on themes of war, racism, heartbreak, and so on, and it all feels very well written and never obnoxious. Sure, this record ... read more

While I can certainly see the appeal of a record like Lush and I understand why some people would really love it, coming at it from the standpoint of having heard hundreds of indie songs that sound exactly like this, Lush really isn't anything all that exciting to me. It's not bad, but it really doesn't do anything to push the genre forward in any new or exciting ways like some people seem to be suggesting. Unless there was some sort of massive shift in sound on Valentine I gotta say I don't ... read more

Not my favorite from Nine Inch Nails, but certainly still a great addition to their discography and a very good starting point for this band. Obviously Head Like A Hole is great but it was really the deep cuts on here that I found myself most intrigued by, and they were some of my favorites on the record. I'm still yet to really make heads or tails on Reznor's vocals, but honestly as far as debut albums go this is about as good as it gets. It shows Nine Inch Nails' love for including more ... read more

The King Of Limbs - It's amazing.
Yeah, I said it! I did what no one else had the guts to do, admitting that The King Of Limbs might actually have some pretty decent ideas after all. I'll accept my medal of honor now. Seriously though, this record is really great. It's not Radiohead's most direct, and it's really one that you have to let sit with you for a bit and let it grow on you over time, but wow this thing is so good once you kinda understand what it's doing. Like many people, my initial ... read more

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i promise i'll get back to making actual reviews now this isn't just a shitpost account i swear

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Obviously a very amateurish effort from Dylan, but still one that features some very promising qualities. Even on his debut, Bob Dylan proves himself to be a pretty great songwriter, and there's some surprisingly great guitarwork here too, I just... didn't really care for the vocals? They were generally the weakest link of a lot of the songs here, plus for a debut this is pretty standard and expectedly not that impressive. Still worth checking out though, especially if you're a big fan of his. ... read more

Pharoah Sanders' Karma is a spiritual experience, and that's really all that needs to be said.

Joanna Newsom presents a two hour sprawling adventure detailing topics like love, breakups, as well as her own struggles through having to deal with the miscarriage of her baby on Have One on Me. While Have One on Me is certainly an impressive achievement in Newsom's discography, I don't believe that it's necessarily her best. This is certainly a more ambitious album than its predecessor, Ys, and in that way it's almost ambitious to a fault at points. Let's just rip the band-aid off and get it ... read more

Ben Levin managed to tap into something truly exceptional here - featuring some absolutely beautiful piano playing, incredible lyrics, and an entire choir singing the stunning background vocals featured throughout the majority of this project, the whole thing just comes together so well. Levin's songwriting style is both beautiful and incredibly captivating, and overall there's very little about this EP that I don't completely love. This is just such a great release, and there's something about ... read more

i'm definitely going to hell for this one

While this album is certainly very good and has some incredibly beautiful moments, I can't help but feel that this mostly just feels like a stepping stone to Bitches Brew. Some of the elements that would come into play on that album pop up here, but with that being said, this isn't Bitches Brew. That's not to say that this record doesn't hold up on its own or that you shouldn't check it out, but again, at points this just sounds like MIles working out some of the more electronic elements of his ... read more

I know everyone kinda feels this way, but Mezzanine is pretty great. This is a pretty creepy and unnerving listen, and a lot of the songs here prominently feature these creeping basslines and unnerving instrumentals which I thought were really amazing. The songwriting here is really great and adds a lot to the album, specifically with songs like (Exchange). The production here is fantastic, and the execution is amazing, my only real issue here was the vocals which were admittedly a little hard ... read more

Not Frank's best, not his worst, but still a very good record from him! I really liked this one overall and thought it featured a lot of great songs, even if a few were just kinda decent or a little underwhelming to me. The whole album is very vibey and as a full album, depending on how you listen, it can just float by and create a really great atmosphere, or you can pay attention to what its doing and have a great time just enjoying what a catchy and interesting record it is! With that being ... read more

Mingus

Probably a controversial opinion, but I think this might actually be my favorite album from Mingus! Every song on here (even the last track to an extent) maintains a very upbeat and positive tone, and there's no "bad" songs on here. Everything presented here is great at worst and amazing at best. The sound of this is both very casual and laidback yet there's also something about it that feels kinda larger than itself, really if anything just solidifies in my mind that Charles ... read more

Through listening to this there were several points where I found this album playing in the background, so after recognizing that, I'd try to pay attention once again. I would find myself oddly entranced, before eventually finding that the music had found its way back into the background once more, this cycle kept repeating as I listened through which is kinda the beauty of it. Alcoves is one of those albums that you don't always need to be paying full attention to to feel like you get the full ... read more

The first track on here alone already shows that at this point in his career Coltrane was a powerhouse in the realm of jazz. Opening up with this 19 minute opus consisting of consistently shifting and changing instrumental passages that manage to sound both very unorganized and confused and very intentional and purposeful at the same time, the track creates this feeling of looseness, of weightlessness almost, that is both impressive on a technical level and also an incredibly immersive ... read more