Average Rating: 3.33 Rating Variance: 1.38 Objectivity Score: 83% (Well Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicLykke Li Wounded RhymesWounded Rhymes is probably the best album of 2011 (I didn't listen to them all so I'm not certain but quite close). All the songs on the album are excellent, 'Love out of lust', 'I follow rivers' and 'Silent my song' are amazing. Lykke Li is an amazingly good singer. The song arrangements are beautiful and original. The album flows beautifully from start to finish. Do yourself a favor and listen to this album A LOT!4.0 excellentBABYMETAL BABYMETALI have to agree with the reviewer discovolante. This album is great. A solid 4.o. There are at least 4 great songs on here (Mitsigune, Gimme chocolate and some others whose names are a mystery to me because they are in Japanese), but it's all good stuff. The musicianship is awesome and the overall sound is incredibly refreshing. The architect of this music has found a space between radio friendly shit-pop and INSANELY AWESOME BRUTAL METAL >:D and created something unique. Great stuff. Damon Albarn Everyday RobotsMachine Head Unto The LocustThis album is phucking outstanding. Tracks 2,3 and 4 are all brilliant and the rest is just great or very good except for track one which is basically shit. The album is brutal and delicious. The bees knees (or in this case the locusts knees!!!!!) XD XD XD Marissa Nadler July'July' is a great example of an album that hovers somewhere between good and great. I genuinely couldn't decide where in the spectrum it fell until I had listened to it several times. The opening piece 'Drive' and 'Was it a dream' are both excellent (easily the two best songs on the album) and '1923', 'We are coming back' and 'Dead city Emily' are all very good indeed. Unfortunately a lot of the album never attempts to be anything more than 'sweet sounding female folk artist by numbers' and the album as a whole has quite a samey sound.The songs arrangements, recording and production is impressive. In an age when 100% of everything on the radio sounds like it was arranged and recorded by a computer it is refreshing to listen to recordings of music played by real human beings on real instruments. Parts of this album are merely very nice and easily forgettable but at it's best it is quite simply beautiful. 3.5 greatAnimals As Leaders The Joy of MotionReally cool. A Proggy, colorful, diverse album. Definitely worth listening to. 2.5 averageChevelle La GárgolaThere are a couple of decent songs on this album but most is just clich?d filler. The production is boring and by the numbers. Muffled vocals, stand out lead guitar, choppy rhythm, fat bass. The album has nothing in the way of originality. I didn't listen to the last two songs because I was too bored with the album. Yes there are some nice riffs and decent musicianship and 'take out the gunman' is quite good but in the end it sounded like badly watered down tool to me.2.0 poorSufjan Stevens The Age of AdzI must strongly disagree with the reviewer. 'The age of adz' is mediocre at best. In a more generous and forgiving world she could conceivably be considered borderline average but as you all know this world is cruel and impatient, and consequently I cannot allow myself to rate this album at higher than 2.0. I agree that this is somewhat harsh, but I feel Stevens output with 'The age of adz' merits such disdain. The first song is the only genuinely listenable piece in this work, the rest is mostly just lazily written songs that reek with the stench of B-sidedness. Stevens attempts to compensate for the lack of song quality with super wacky arrangements, strange song structures and over production. The result is a mess of an album which is both interesting and boring at once (but mostly just boring). 1.0 awfulFranz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right ActionI had to give this album the lowest rating possible. Nothing else can express my sheer anger at the cowardly passivity of Franz Ferdinand in creating this lazy ass piece of junk. The catchiness of two songs on this album don't even begin to compensate for the hastily thrown together filler, B side standard garbage that makes up everything else (even the two 'decent' songs I am referring to bored the hell out of me after a while). Franz Ferdinand have proven with 'Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action' that they no longer believe in themselves a band capable of making good music. They (like many before them) have 'retired' from making good music and will now only throw out an album every few years as an excuse to tour and make some money.
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