Album Rating: 3.5

This kinda falls off after the first three tracks

Album Rating: 5.0

Could not disagree more. Shellfish Toxin’s a harder sell but the way it jumps on the quiet back end of Soft Power and carries things away into pure psychedelia’s cool as Hell.



Whole thing’s insane

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah hard disagree, Soft Power is probably my favorite here aside from You Let My Tyres Down.

I like the closer a lot too.

Album Rating: 4.0

^ this guy gets it.

Album Rating: 5.0

Ugh just rejammed this cause all it takes is seeing the damn thing’s name to get the mood going



Album of the fucking decade

Album Rating: 4.5

Quite possibly the best band name ever too

Album Rating: 4.5

YOUR POLITICS AINT NOTHING BUT A FOND FUCK YOU

I’m one sad boy when I realize these guys played a small ass venue in town approx one month before I discovered them

Album Rating: 5.0

Had tickets to them in April before the world shut down, still waiting with baited breath to make good on that, looks like one of the coolest live sets, period. Gaz and Erica just fucking throwing springboard leads at each other through a massive pedal board while Fi holds it the fuck down and Hammer’s the wild card whether she’s going to stick with the rhythm or cut absolutely loose with the guitars

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah I can tell these guys would be a good time live.

Missing too many concerts this year : /

Album Rating: 4.0

Antimatter is as good as anything else here

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah agree with that too. Chameleon Paint slaps too

Album Rating: 5.0

Whole album front to back slaps, get busy wit da fax



Which is why “Antimatter [sic] is as good as anything else here,” is the truth

Album Rating: 4.5

Like you said, Shellfish Toxin can be a tough sell.

And I still like them but Two Afternoons and and The Future of History aren’t up to snuff. The rest of the record is fucking ace tho

Album Rating: 5.0

Fair points, and Shellfish Toxin’s always going to be the sort of thing that asks you to come to it, but the tech paranoia recreated in the jittery tones (fuck that ending effects work sounds like a dystopian answer to a Scooby Doo cartoon), and Two Afternoons took awhile but still brings its own character, just haven’t encountered anything else this decade that feels like it compulsively keeps calling me back as religiously and frequently as this one does

Album Rating: 4.5

No absolutely agreed. This album is insanely good. It’s one of the most unique things I’ve ever listened to. I’m not super familiar with genres it’s tagged as on here, but the music is still fucking quality.

Album Rating: 5.0

Tagging genres here is basically trying to push in all the jagged edges to fit something recognizable. Like, there’s tones and whatnot, but ain’t fucking nothing that sounds like this, even from The Drones material. Feelin’ Kinda Free’s probably as close as you can get, but even that’s embryonic prep for this

Album Rating: 4.5

Okay glad to hear I’m not musically illiterate. Because I’ve listened to post punk bands and I’ve listened to psychedelic bands but I’ve never heard (much less enjoyed) anything quite like this.

Album Rating: 5.0

Have you heard Gareth’s solo album? Hearing his maximalist approach stripped down to acoustic is crazy cool (and puts the focus on how brilliant his lyrics are)

Album Rating: 4.5

Man I haven’t even checked out The Drones’ material lol

I don’t know why I haven’t yet given how much I love this record

Album Rating: 5.0

Dude, so worth it. Some of the best work of the 21st Century, all 7 Drones records are legitimately unimpeachable (for different reasons)



Gaz is also just about my favorite songwriter in all things, period, to acknowledge bias