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Album title: Kreise Artist: Johannes Oerding Genre: Pop/Pop Rock Nationality: German Release date: May 5 Position in Discography: Fifth Estimated Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed5.jpg Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Yes Average RYM Score: 2.19 Decent, catchy pop so far anyway; definitely has something. He's got a good voice. I wonder if he was ever in a boyband? No, seems he's always been a solo artist. Good for him. It's funny how personally, I always find the German language very harsh and sharp, but most times, when reviewing albums by German artists, it seems that harshness disappears – or at least is very much ameliorated – by the singing. “So schön” is a very breezy and catchy song, “Freier Fall” is a nice ballad and you have to admire the cleverness in titles such as “Love Me Tinder”, to say nothing of his using English and German pastiches to make song titles. Generally speaking, a decent pop album. Nothing special, but nothing terrible either. Can't honestly say anything stood out or was memorable, language barrier aside. But for an album with fourteen tracks, and in German, I wasn't wishing for it to end, which has to count for something. Check out more from this artist? No Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes Actual Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed6.jpg |
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Album title: Halo Artist: Juana Molina Genre: Folktronica/Art Pop/Experimental Nationality: Argentinian Release date: May 5 Position in Discography: Seventh Estimated Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed5.jpg Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No Average RYM Score: 3.37 Interesting stuff. Very breathy vocal, nice Latin rhythms, much of it is very ethereal. Weird effects on "Cálculos y oráculos", sounds like dogs howling, though I guess it's some sort of slidy synth effect, or something on a guitar; flange, maybe? Odd-sounding anyway. I guess it all has a nice Latin flair and feel, but I'm sort of bored with it and not really taking any of it in. Of course, as I review and listen to albums I'm usually also doing something else, but if an album is good enough it will pull me, even only momentarily, from that task and force me to pay it more attention. This one hasn't done that. Check out more from this artist? No Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes Actual Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed6.jpg |
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Album title: For Crying Out Loud Artist: Kasabian Genre: Electronic Rock/Electronica/Neo-psychedelia/Space Rock Nationality: English Release date: May 5 Position in Discography: Sixth Estimated Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed5.jpg Familiar with this artist? I've heard some of their material Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No Average RYM Score: 2.75 What is the deal with Kasabian? Why are they a successful band? They seem about as generic, to me, as you can get. Well okay, “You're In Love With a Psycho” is pretty cool, very infectious melody. Was it a single? Yes. Yes, it was. Not surprised. “Wasted” is another good song, as is “Are You Looking For Action?”, which has more than a hint of funk/dance about it. As is often the case, I wonder where Wiki gets the genre tags from. Have not heard anything remotely like space rock here at all, and little if any psych, never mind neo-psych. Oh well. A fairly ordinary rock and pop album. Again, not bad but I don't see why people think these guys are so good. They're really not very different from, say, the Killers or Kaiser Chiefs or any other rock band you want to name. And this is a very average album. Check out more from this artist? No Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes Actual Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed7.jpg |
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Album title: 7 Series Artist: Kid Ink Genre: Hip-hop Nationality: American Release date: May 5 Position in Discography: Second Estimated Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed5.jpg Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No Average RYM Score: 1.67 I'm afraid I really don't have anything to say about this. It seems pretty generic hip-hop (as I understand it): I don't hear anything different or anything that stands out. Could be any rapper really. Just a big shrug. Check out more from this artist? No Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes Actual Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed3.jpg |
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Album title: Everybody Artist: Logic Genre: Conscious Hip-hop Nationality: American Release date: May 5 Position in Discography: Third Estimated Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed5.jpg Familiar with this artist? No but I've heard of him and of this album Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No Average RYM Score: 2.09 Now this is more like it! From the kick off, this has heart, passion, energy. You can feel your feet move, your heart beat, your soul fill up. This is uplifting music and even though the opener pushes seven and a half minutes, there's nothing wasted. If the rest of the album is like this I'll have no problem with it. I love the talk with God at the end. “Confess” is a brilliant track that just rocks along with a superfast rap and a real soul vibe to it. “Killing Spree” is a powerful sermon from the Church of Trap, while “America” features the legendary Chuck D himself, what an honour. “Ink Blot” allows something of a chance to catch the breath, slowing things down for a short relaxed little track, before we're back and firing on all cylinders with “Mos Definitely”, a rapid-fire rap spraying around like an Uzi. Back to Logic's meeting with God on “Waiting Room”, which has no music at all. And no rap. It's literally a spoken conversation between Logic, as Adam, and God. Very impressive. That segues almost directly into “1-800-273-8255”, which tackles the idea of suicide, the title being the phone number of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Love that. They should have this on the hold music for that help line. If there is hold music, which I guess at some point there must be. Superb song, a real highlight. This album just keeps on giving. Excellent stuff. If the opener was long at nearly eight minutes, the closer is very long at over twelve, and features everyone's favourite astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Now what rapper can boast of having both him and the Public Enemy founder guesting on his album? That's pretty special. So is this album. Check out more from this artist? Yes Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes Actual Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed10.jpg |
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Album title: This Old Dog Artist: Mac DeMarco Genre: Lo-Fi/Jangle Pop Nationality: Canadian Release date: May 5 Position in Discography: Third Estimated Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed5.jpg Familiar with this artist? Heard one album Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No Average RYM Score: 3.40 Odd how your memory plays tricks on you, isn't it? I find it hard to remember things and it's also odd how your memory plays tricks on you, isn't it? I know I heard one of this guy's albums in the “Love or Hate?” thread, but I can't remember what I thought of it. Also, I had for some reason formed the idea he was a hip-hop artist. Weird. Anyway I find it a bit boring up to “For the First Time”, but overall there's a very relaxed – perhaps too relaxed – seventies soft rock feel to this, and he does that kind of laconic singing that I'm not very fond of. “One More Love Song” is good too, as is “Moonlight on the River”, but generally I'm just bored with this. Meh. Check out more from this artist? No Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Don't know Actual Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed3.jpg |
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Album title: Bold Artist: Mary Lambert Genre: R&B/Folk/Pop/Spoken Word Nationality: American Release date: May 5 Position in Discography: Third EP; fourth overall Estimated Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed5.jpg Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Some yes Average RYM Score: 3.62 An interesting mix of singer/songwriter folky pop and spoken word; half of “Lay Your Head Down” (which runs for almost eight minutes) consists of her just speaking against a soft piano melody, with the chorus sung by her and then back to the spoken word. On the other side of things, “Hang Out With You” is a simple, happy, uptempo pop song and “Know Your Name” is more a rock/AOR style, with tinges of country in “I'd Be Your Wife”. Impressive stuff, though considering there are only seven tracks I think it was a mistake to include two mixes of one song. Check out more from this artist? Yes Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes Actual Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed8.jpg |
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Album title: Musas Artist: Natalia Lafourcade and Los Macorinos Genre: Folk Nationality: Mexican Release date: May 5 (Cinco de Mayo!) Position in Discography: Seventh Estimated Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed5.jpg Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No Average RYM Score: 3.53 A collaboration between Natalia Lafourcade and the acoustic guitar duo Los Macorinos, which I'm afraid means nothing to me, as I know neither, but it seems to be a big deal. Mostly traditional Mexican songs with a few of her own thrown in, I of course know none of them but the album does achieve what she says she set out to do on it, which is to make it sound very authentically Mexican. I guess if that's your bag then you'll probably enjoy this, but it doesn't do anything for me personally."Qué He Sacado Con Quererte" is nice, some really lovely cello on it, and "Rocío de Todos los Campos" is pleasant too, but isn't “Son Amores (That's Amore)” Italian? I certainly know that song – who doesn't? - but it's the only one I do know. Yeah, it's very pleasant and she's a great singer no doubt, to say nothing of the expertise of the two lads on guitars, but for the most part I was just, again, bored. The only real highlight for me was the instrumental closer. Just not really for me, I'm afraid. Check out more from this artist? No (maybe Los Macorinos) Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes Actual Rating: http://www.trollheart.com/speed6.jpg |
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