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| 4.5 superb | Cyprus | October 7th 15 |
Such a well done, underrated pop album. Even when the songwriting gets cheesy, you can't help but sing along.
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| 3.0 good | Jack Fraser | July 20th 15 |
Next up in 2015's lineup of by-the-books, overrated, unremarkable throwback pop-rock, Goon is the kind of record that would be collecting dust in a crate if it came out forty years ago.
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| 3.5 great | TheManMachine | May 9th 15 |
Relieved having begun my Goon-swoon with this tender-to-a-T classicist before his 6'7" frame and T. Swift date-rumors seeped into the press as much as, well, the music itself: mostly elegantly sparse piano-pop that has yours truly struggling with the fact that it wasn't already written some 50 years ago - "Hollywood" excluded only for its diffidence towards the city in question and nervous collision-of-horns coda, "Just a Dream" excluded because songwriters hadn't quite formed a knack for no-cheese new-dad balladry yet. Not to say it escapes triteness by any means - this actually revels in it, but it's such a universally standard sort of trite that it adds to the vintage-feel purity of it all. Another media revelation: though often compared to Newman and Nilsson, he'd never heard either of them at this time. Eh, reminds me more of Lennon, anyway.
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| 3.5 great | RUSH | February 3rd 18 |
| 3.5 great | PaabL | December 16th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Prole | March 9th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Handers | January 8th 16 |
| 3.5 great | JWT155 | December 28th 15 |
| 3.5 great | iveau | December 28th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | December 1st 15 |
| 5.0 classic | Reeet | November 26th 15 |
| 3.5 great | iGuter | November 16th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | K Bowman EMERITUS | November 11th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | pachaim | April 29th 15 |
| 3.0 good | Jade | April 4th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | trevvvy | March 31st 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | mx STAFF | March 25th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Mojito | March 24th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Pangea | March 21st 15 |
| 3.8 excellent | Irving EMERITUS | March 21st 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | theyam | March 19th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | JoshieG | March 16th 15 |
| 3.5 great | RedSky | March 16th 15 |
| 3.7 great | DaveyBoy EMERITUS | March 11th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Rudy K. EMERITUS | March 10th 15 |
| 3.5 great | psandy | March 5th 15 |
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