Important Note: As some of these albums definitely do not deserve the rating of Love or even Hate, I'm going to go back on my word and introduce the Meh category, which will be shown in white. If some kind mod could please retitle the thread to "Love, Hate or Meh?" that would be very much appreciated.
In the light of this, I will, when I have time, go back and reclassify any albums I've done where they got a Love rating and I feel they really didn't deserve it, but I didn't Hate them enough to rate them that way. I feel this is going to be more representative and won't force me to choose between the two extremes, thus coming up with an unrealistic impression of the albums.
Title: High Land, Hard Rain
Artiste: Aztec Camera
Genre: Alt Pop
Familiarity: A few singles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_L...#Track_listing
Track 1(Love) I know this as it was one of their singles. Like this but not as much as some of the other material of theirs I've heard. Uptempo, cheerful, nothing wrong with it.
Track 2(Love) This one sounds familiar, kind of a Prefab Sprout feel to it. Like the guitar; always liked Roddy Frame's voice. Hear elements of Squeeze in here too. The title of the album is in the chorus here.
Track 3 Nice breezy little tune, if a little empty
Track 4 First ballad; nice acoustic guitar line. Yeah but a bit flat.
Track 5(Love) Hmm. Nice, but I'm sort of not feeling it so far. Bit bored. It'c coming across as quite bland. Guitar just there near the end is very nice, I will admit, and the backing vocals are good. In fact, this one is quite good.
Track 6 Yeah it's okay; bright and breezy but again ultimately forgettable
Track 7(Hate) Don't much like this one at all.
Track 8 It's okay but it's not making any real impression on me.
Track 9 About the only good thing about this is the harmonica and the organ near the end. I'm still pretty bored.
Track 10(Love) Nice little folky acoustic tune
End result: I honestly expected this to be a lot better than it was, but all I can say is that there were a few good tracks, little I really hated but nothing I could put my finger on and say it was great. Generally speaking I was unimpressed and quite bored pretty much throughout the whole thing.
So, Love, Hate or Meh? This will be the first
Meh.
Chances of a full review: 0/10