Album Rating: 3.0

what country you in? not on my spotify (usa)

Album Rating: 3.5

UK; sorry if you've been dying to hear this and I just made you flip out incessantly!

Album Rating: 3.0

not dying to hear this in particular; my new years' resolution is to listen to every album that gets a front page review this year. got a decent backlog of stuff that isn't available on spotify, and i haven't found streams of. might have to resort to youtube. ugh.



in particular, i still need to hear the scorpions album, the new steven wilson, joanne robertson, and now this.

Album Rating: 3.5

that's certainly ambitious.. in any case, it's presumably going to be released in a few days stateside.

That's extremely ambitious. How will you find any time to listen to things you actually want to listen to? Doesn't seem like that resolution leaves a lot to choice.

Album Rating: 3.0

I'm a college kid with a dope part time job - I get to listen to music at work. So I generally manage to get all the features done while I'm at work (15 hours/wk). then I jam whatever the hell I want at home/studying/with the squad/etc.

Whhaaaaaat? What sort of job is this?

Album Rating: 3.0

marketing database management. basically I play with MS excel all day. at some point (prob this summer) we're switching over to MS Access since it handles databases better, but yeah. it's dope.

Album Rating: 3.5

I tip my hat to anybody with the self-discipline to balance study and a part-time job, I certainly couldn't do it



well, I certainly could've in the earlier years, but I would've missed out on all the fun!

Album Rating: 3.0

last semester was incredibly rough, had 14 credits and 15 hours/wk of work. then I had a whole big mental breakdown and everything, decided to switch my major from physics to music since music is the only thing i care about, currently waiting to hear back from the music dept to see if i was accepted.



anyways this semester I'm only taking two classes so the balance is pretty easy ahaha.

Album Rating: 3.7

Good to see this album finally getting some traction (& ratings) here. P4K finally put their review up... An 8.5. From 15 reviews on Metacritic, it currently has a score of 83. Wow!



And yes Daniel, that's ambitious, no matter what your job is. Although, you did say "listen" to every front-page review album, which could only entail 1 listen, I guess.

Album Rating: 3.0

it generally does mean one listen, haha. I relisten to most stuff above a 3, but i don't see the point in listening to anything i don't enjoy more than once.

Album Rating: 3.7

Fair call. Not much use in raising a 2 to a 2.5. But I have had 3.5s & 4s rise (or even occasionally fall) after subsequent listens.

Album Rating: 3.5

This is way more diverse, as i thought it would be. I'm pleasantly surprised

Album Rating: 3.7

Good call. I'm sure many people won't think it's diverse, if they only listen to it superficially in the background... But I was also pleasantly surprised.

Album Rating: 3.5

I think you're definitely right in identifying a slight dip in quality in the latter half of the LP; Crocodile Tears being exhibit A and, to a lesser degree, Bad Words. That said, Just a Dream is excellent and pulls the record back on track.. and it finishes rather strongly too.



Huge Elliott Smith vibes from For You and Leaving LA (not dissimilar to the sound he played around with on XO or Figure 8), which is certainly not a bad thing in my books.

Album Rating: 3.7

It feels like the last handful of albums that I've listened to from this past few months have all had a dip in quality come the latter half. I'm starting to wonder if there is anything to it, but come the end of the day, it's all about a cohesive track order.



I never really thought about the Elliott Smith comparisons. Most of the reviews I've seen have given different comparisons, other than the almost always mentioned McCartney and Newman/Nilsson.

Album Rating: 3.0

this is up now, currently jamming. I'm getting a little of a Randy Newman vibe, but that's more in the way he shapes his words than anything else.



not really digging the modern indie pop influenced stuff like "For You," he's best when he's pretending he's newman or nilsson imo

Album Rating: 3.7

I'd agree with that comment Daniel. I can see why he'd try to integrate a little of the modern influenceand it still could work, but he's definitely a man who seems to have been transported 40 years into the future.

Album Rating: 3.5

Maybe it's just personal interpretation but the bouncy piano, percussion and the vocal style on For You especially sounds straight from Smith tracks like Baby Britain for example



Need to work my way through your recommended section, Davey. Only ones I've heard beforehand are The Beatles and Nilsson Schmilsson (I swear, I have to look that up every time to get the spelling right..).