Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain: 7
clipping. - Dead Channel Sky: 8
Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis – Act III_ The Father of Make Believe: 8
Doves - Constellations for the Lonely: 7.5
Dylan, Bob - The 50th Anniversary Collection - 1974 Live AUD Recordings: 9
Fay, Bill - Time of the Last Persecution: 8
Ginsberg, Allen With Still Life - Allen Ginsberg With Still Life: 7
Johansen, David - David Johansen: 8
Little Richard - The Georgia Peach: 10
lots of hands - into a pretty room: 8
Mars Volta - Lucro sucio; los ojos del vacío: 6.5
Michael Cera Palin - We Could Be Brave: 7.5
Orchid - Skull Sessions: 7.5
Panopticon - Kentucky: 7
Smith, Patti - Horses: 9
Thoughts on Bowling - tripping over the foul line: 7
venturing - Ghostholding: 6.5
WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain: 9 Funeral
3.31.2025
3.14.2025
February/March 2025 and Changes
Years. Thousands of albums. Time for change, or at least time to try change. Albums will now get a score and sometimes a RIYL.
2nd Grade - Scheduled Explosions: 6.5 Shins, Pup
As Friends Rust - Lightless: 6 Hot Water Music, Against Me!
Bane - It All Comes Down To This (25th Anniversary Edition): 9.5
Ben Kweller - Sha Sha (deluxe edition): 9.5
Bondo - Harmonica: 8.5 Slint, City of Caterpillar
Cauterize - So Far From Real: 6.5 Saves the Day, Get Up Kids
Chalamet, Timothée - A Complete Unknown_ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: 9 Bob Dylan, Joan Baez
Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess: 7.5 Fleetwood Mac, Kate Bush
Charli xcx - BRAT: 7 Lady Gaga, SOPHIE
Coheed and Cambria - Claudio Covers: 6 Chonny and Clyde, Prize Fighter Inferno
Contention - Artillery From Heaven: 7 Most Precious Blood, Indecision
Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal: 8 Little Simz, Noname
Dungen - Otis: 6 Yesterday's New Quintet, Boards of Canada
Free Throw - Those Days Are Gone: 8 The Hotelier, Modern Baseball
Fucked Up - Another Day: 7 Fucked Up
Fucked Up - Someday: 7.5 Fucked Up, Militarie Gun
Funeral Diner - The Underdark: 8 City of Caterpillar, deathcrash
Harrison Gordon - The Yuppies are Winning: 7.5 Japandroids, Free Throw
Hey, ily! - Hey, I Loathe You!: 6.5 Origami Angel, Glass Beach
Hiss Tracts - Shortwave Nights: 8 Azusa Plane, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Human error - Human Error: 7.5 Ratatat
Baez, Joan - Any Day Now: 9.5 Bob Dylan
Lifeless Dark - Forces of Nature's Transformation: 9
Lobsterfight - My Coat Hanger Is A Necklace: 7.5 Cap'n Jazz, Captain Jazz
Mk.gee - Two Star & the Dream Police: 6.5 Bon Iver, Phil Collins
Mount Eerie - Night Palace: 8 Decemberists, Mountain Goats
Neutral Milk Hotel - Live at Lounge Ax, Chicago, IL: 10 Neutral Milk Hotel
Papa M - Ballads of Harry Houdini: 7.5 M, Aerial M
Pine - Lead Blocks for Feet: 8.5 Texas is the Reason
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Do You Still Love Me_: 6.5 Wovenhand, Unwound
Polaris - Beaumont Street Studio Recordings: 8 Slint, Curtains-era Piebald
Polaris - Demo: 7
Polaris - Belated: 7.5
Polaris - Live At The 13th Note, Glasgow (11.26.2000): 7
Polaris - Polaris: 7
Robinson, Porter - SMILE! _D: 7.5 Feeling Not Found, 1000 gecs
Spellling - The Turning Wheel: 6.5
Talking Heads - Talking Heads- 77 (Super Deluxe Edition): 10
Various - The Elephant 6 Recording Co: 10
Various - fourwaysplit: 8
Vektor - Outer Isolation: 7
Vektor - Black Future: 7.5 Mars Volta
Vektor - Terminal Redux: 6.5
Guthrie, Woody - The Asch Recordings, Volume 1_ This Land Is Your Land: 9
Young Jesus - Rejected Ambient Works: 6.5
As Friends Rust - Lightless: 6 Hot Water Music, Against Me!
Bane - It All Comes Down To This (25th Anniversary Edition): 9.5
Ben Kweller - Sha Sha (deluxe edition): 9.5
Bondo - Harmonica: 8.5 Slint, City of Caterpillar
Cauterize - So Far From Real: 6.5 Saves the Day, Get Up Kids
Chalamet, Timothée - A Complete Unknown_ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: 9 Bob Dylan, Joan Baez
Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess: 7.5 Fleetwood Mac, Kate Bush
Charli xcx - BRAT: 7 Lady Gaga, SOPHIE
Coheed and Cambria - Claudio Covers: 6 Chonny and Clyde, Prize Fighter Inferno
Contention - Artillery From Heaven: 7 Most Precious Blood, Indecision
Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal: 8 Little Simz, Noname
Dungen - Otis: 6 Yesterday's New Quintet, Boards of Canada
Free Throw - Those Days Are Gone: 8 The Hotelier, Modern Baseball
Fucked Up - Another Day: 7 Fucked Up
Fucked Up - Someday: 7.5 Fucked Up, Militarie Gun
Funeral Diner - The Underdark: 8 City of Caterpillar, deathcrash
Harrison Gordon - The Yuppies are Winning: 7.5 Japandroids, Free Throw
Hey, ily! - Hey, I Loathe You!: 6.5 Origami Angel, Glass Beach
Hiss Tracts - Shortwave Nights: 8 Azusa Plane, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Human error - Human Error: 7.5 Ratatat
Baez, Joan - Any Day Now: 9.5 Bob Dylan
Lifeless Dark - Forces of Nature's Transformation: 9
Lobsterfight - My Coat Hanger Is A Necklace: 7.5 Cap'n Jazz, Captain Jazz
Mk.gee - Two Star & the Dream Police: 6.5 Bon Iver, Phil Collins
Mount Eerie - Night Palace: 8 Decemberists, Mountain Goats
Neutral Milk Hotel - Live at Lounge Ax, Chicago, IL: 10 Neutral Milk Hotel
Papa M - Ballads of Harry Houdini: 7.5 M, Aerial M
Pine - Lead Blocks for Feet: 8.5 Texas is the Reason
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Do You Still Love Me_: 6.5 Wovenhand, Unwound
Polaris - Beaumont Street Studio Recordings: 8 Slint, Curtains-era Piebald
Polaris - Demo: 7
Polaris - Belated: 7.5
Polaris - Live At The 13th Note, Glasgow (11.26.2000): 7
Polaris - Polaris: 7
Robinson, Porter - SMILE! _D: 7.5 Feeling Not Found, 1000 gecs
Spellling - The Turning Wheel: 6.5
Talking Heads - Talking Heads- 77 (Super Deluxe Edition): 10
Various - The Elephant 6 Recording Co: 10
Various - fourwaysplit: 8
Vektor - Outer Isolation: 7
Vektor - Black Future: 7.5 Mars Volta
Vektor - Terminal Redux: 6.5
Guthrie, Woody - The Asch Recordings, Volume 1_ This Land Is Your Land: 9
Young Jesus - Rejected Ambient Works: 6.5
1.24.2025
December 2024/January 2025
Allman Brothers Band - Atlanta International Pop Festival (2 Disc): A simpler time
Being Dead - Eels: Total throwback to a simpler time of garage pop
Ben Quad - Ephemera: Is screamo the next big thing? Sign me up!
Bon Iver - Sable,: I think EPs are where he needs to be
Chat Pile - Cool World: Not quite as dread-inducing, but still full of dread
Coldplay - Moon Music: Reliably comforting
Cooke, Sam - Portrait of a Legend 1951–1964: Perfection
Duran Duran - Rio: So solid I am embarrassed I avoided it
Dylan, Bob and The Band - The 1974 Live Recordings (27 Discs): Just great
Dym - Ray's Front Teeth': Love what they are going for even if it does not fully deliver
Erai - Erai: Powerfully engaging
Erai - Before We Were Wise and Unhappy: Ahead of its time and belongs on tours with Fiddlehead
Erai - Only Future: Definite growth of their sound. Wish we had another chapter.
Fiery Furnaces - Stuck In My Head: Perfect
Follow for Now - Follow For Now: 90s time capsule
From Indian Lakes - Absent Sounds: Gorgeous
Go-Go's - Return To The Valley Of The Go-Go's (2 Disc): Much more here than I ever knew
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”: A definite sadness to this one
Green Day - American Idiot (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (4 Discs): I am not fond of adding live tracks to fill out a deluxe edition
Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol: Unrealistic expectations for most, but solid entry and good enough farewell
Karate - Make It Fit: I would believe this was a new Piebald album
Khruangbin - Mordechai Remixes: Soothing and relaxing after a long day
King, Carole - Tapestry: An album that plays like a collection of greatest hits
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping: So much more than I thought!
Machine Girl - MG Ultra: Not pushing things forward
Mamas & the Papas - Greatest Hits: A few really good songs, but the rest does not hold up
Nonpareils - Scented Pictures: More challenging, but more rewarding
Nonpareils - Rhetoric & Terror: More dream than nightmare
Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found: Somewhere City was perfect. Gami Gang had its moments. Feeling Not Found slots in between.
Pinhead Gunpowder - Unt: Sounds like they had fun
Pointer Sisters - The Best of Pointer Sisters: Nice to have collection that shows a broader success than conventional wisdom would indicate
Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can_ The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings: More likely to revisit
Ronettes - The Best of The Ronettes: Essential collection
Shangri‐Las - Myrmidons of Melodrama: Gorgeous selection that feels as fresh today as it would have in the 60s
Slint - Tweez (tweethan mix): Dramatic improvement on already good release
Smile - Cutouts: Too soon
SOPHIE - SOPHIE: Better than nothing
Stars.Wept - The.Stars.Wept: Solid release lost to time
Sunset Rubdown - Always Happy To Explode: Connect more with this than any of the others from what I can remember
Supremes - Gold: Supremely good
Thomas, Fred - Everything is Pretty Much Entirely Fucked: Melancholy at best
Thomas, Fred - Sink Like a Symphony: Starting to warm up
Thomas, Fred - Changer: Some strong singles
Thomas, Fred - Window in the Rhythm: Big sad dad energy
Touché Amoré - Spiral in a Straight Line: Love the more melodic direction
Town Liar - Lies- Eight Through Thirteen: Keep the short EPs coming
Voidz - Like All Before You: Always worth a listen
Wild Pink - Dulling The Horns: Completely fine, but they never seem to grab me
X-Parrot - Volume 4: When you have it in you and it just needs to get out
Xiu Xiu - 13_ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips: Good at being full of dread
Yon Loader - Yon Loader: Flying under the radar because it does the basics so well
Being Dead - Eels: Total throwback to a simpler time of garage pop
Ben Quad - Ephemera: Is screamo the next big thing? Sign me up!
Bon Iver - Sable,: I think EPs are where he needs to be
Chat Pile - Cool World: Not quite as dread-inducing, but still full of dread
Coldplay - Moon Music: Reliably comforting
Cooke, Sam - Portrait of a Legend 1951–1964: Perfection
Duran Duran - Rio: So solid I am embarrassed I avoided it
Dylan, Bob and The Band - The 1974 Live Recordings (27 Discs): Just great
Dym - Ray's Front Teeth': Love what they are going for even if it does not fully deliver
Erai - Erai: Powerfully engaging
Erai - Before We Were Wise and Unhappy: Ahead of its time and belongs on tours with Fiddlehead
Erai - Only Future: Definite growth of their sound. Wish we had another chapter.
Fiery Furnaces - Stuck In My Head: Perfect
Follow for Now - Follow For Now: 90s time capsule
From Indian Lakes - Absent Sounds: Gorgeous
Go-Go's - Return To The Valley Of The Go-Go's (2 Disc): Much more here than I ever knew
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”: A definite sadness to this one
Green Day - American Idiot (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (4 Discs): I am not fond of adding live tracks to fill out a deluxe edition
Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol: Unrealistic expectations for most, but solid entry and good enough farewell
Karate - Make It Fit: I would believe this was a new Piebald album
Khruangbin - Mordechai Remixes: Soothing and relaxing after a long day
King, Carole - Tapestry: An album that plays like a collection of greatest hits
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping: So much more than I thought!
Machine Girl - MG Ultra: Not pushing things forward
Mamas & the Papas - Greatest Hits: A few really good songs, but the rest does not hold up
Nonpareils - Scented Pictures: More challenging, but more rewarding
Nonpareils - Rhetoric & Terror: More dream than nightmare
Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found: Somewhere City was perfect. Gami Gang had its moments. Feeling Not Found slots in between.
Pinhead Gunpowder - Unt: Sounds like they had fun
Pointer Sisters - The Best of Pointer Sisters: Nice to have collection that shows a broader success than conventional wisdom would indicate
Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can_ The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings: More likely to revisit
Ronettes - The Best of The Ronettes: Essential collection
Shangri‐Las - Myrmidons of Melodrama: Gorgeous selection that feels as fresh today as it would have in the 60s
Slint - Tweez (tweethan mix): Dramatic improvement on already good release
Smile - Cutouts: Too soon
SOPHIE - SOPHIE: Better than nothing
Stars.Wept - The.Stars.Wept: Solid release lost to time
Sunset Rubdown - Always Happy To Explode: Connect more with this than any of the others from what I can remember
Supremes - Gold: Supremely good
Thomas, Fred - Everything is Pretty Much Entirely Fucked: Melancholy at best
Thomas, Fred - Sink Like a Symphony: Starting to warm up
Thomas, Fred - Changer: Some strong singles
Thomas, Fred - Window in the Rhythm: Big sad dad energy
Touché Amoré - Spiral in a Straight Line: Love the more melodic direction
Town Liar - Lies- Eight Through Thirteen: Keep the short EPs coming
Voidz - Like All Before You: Always worth a listen
Wild Pink - Dulling The Horns: Completely fine, but they never seem to grab me
X-Parrot - Volume 4: When you have it in you and it just needs to get out
Xiu Xiu - 13_ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips: Good at being full of dread
Yon Loader - Yon Loader: Flying under the radar because it does the basics so well
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