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Siamese Dream – Smashing Pumpkins
Incredibly ‘edged’-out (for lack of a better term) guitars, a mix between the wall of sound vocals vs. the sort of Robert Plant esque higher pitch vocals for Billy Corgan and really solid rock percussion makes up the bulk of the Smashing Pumpkins sonic profile, a band that also doesn’t really make fit the bill Continue reading
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Nonagon Infinity – King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
King Gizzard has continued to prove to be one of, if not the most versatile band currently putting out music. Contrasting this to their most recent (and soon to be reviewed) album, you would think that they were created by totally different bands. This album is atmospheric, psychedelic rock, and it’s really fucking good. Their Continue reading
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Mordechai – Khruangbin
Khruangbin’s 2020 release Mordechai continues to extend their funky, smooth, jazzy, laid back, chill sound, adding some more Latin American sounds – including even an all-Spanish song in “Pelota”. Like the other Khruangbin record I reviewed here, there really isn’t too much to say. I do think that The Universe Smiles Upon You is a Continue reading
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Kid A – Radiohead
Kid A is a very electronic, synth based album that is much more melancholic than a lot of Radiohead’s other music – which is quite the feat given how often Radiohead’s music does dip into the melancholic – alongside the trope that if you are listening to Radiohead a lot, something must be wrong (all Continue reading
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Floating Coffin – Thee Oh Sees (or Osees)
Another crack at Spotify’s psych rock mix was the 2013 release Floating Coffin from band I had never heard of, Thee Oh Sees. No beating around the bush here – this one was a bit uninspiring for me. There were certainly some good psych (and just general alternative rock) songs on this, however I often Continue reading
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Morbid Stuff – Pup
Thank you Mark for this one – Pup is a Toronto band (Canadians!) that is best described as pop-punk – they certainly have the pop punk lead singer voice nailed down perfectly, albeit with a bit of an indie rock lead singer voice flavor (well said, I know.) I am not sure why Spotify discriminates Continue reading
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Mr Morale and the Big Steppers – Kendrick Lamar
Believe it or not (I don’t care), I only gave this album one shot before pulling songs from it and concluding that while it would be 90% of rappers best album, it’s Kendrick’s worst. I don’t think that actually changed with this listen, but it certainly made it a lot closer than I thought. Tangentially Continue reading
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High Visceral Pt. 1 – Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Another recommendation from the ol’ Spotify algorithm, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, an Australian outfit, produce exactly the kind of music that you would expect. There isn’t a need to mince words here – this is some good psych rock music. I wouldn’t call it sonically groundbreaking by any means – but the riffs are cool, the Continue reading
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Metaphorical Music – Nujabes
Metaphorical Music is another very smooth and jazzy hip-hop & instrumental release from the Japanese DJ. This one compares to Modal Soul, which I recently reviewed, fairly 1:1; they both are very mellowed, about half instrumental tracks and half 90s/00s hip-hop songs. I do prefer the sonic profile on Modal Soul to this one – Continue reading
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Tawk Tomahawk – Haitus Kaiyote
Haitus Kaiyote has frequented my blog, and is a band that I’ve listened to in reverse chronological order. Tawk Tomahawk, their 2013 debut, sets the sonic tone for a lot of their future releases – neo-soul via rhodes, lots of interesting and unique grooves, and often out of the box vocal structuring. This album does Continue reading
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