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Old 11-05-2017, 08:43 PM   #861 (permalink)
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All right then, time to check out some of the albums you've rated for January but which are

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Old 11-05-2017, 08:46 PM   #862 (permalink)
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Old 11-06-2017, 06:23 AM   #863 (permalink)
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Old 11-06-2017, 09:56 AM   #864 (permalink)
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Time for some statistics:

Out of a total of 114 albums reviewed:

Albums I considered excellent: 32 (An increase of 1 on last month)
Albums I considered good: 47 (An increase of 15 on last month)
Albums I considered meh: 19 (An increase of 5 on last month)
Albums I considered bad: 10 (No change)
Albums I considered terrible: 5 (A decrease of 6 on last month)

Albums I did not complete

Ones on which I used the "Oh Hell No!" clause: 0
Ones on which I used the "Three Strikes" clause: 0
Ones on which I used the "Bailout" clause: 18 (Double on last month, but not really a proper reflection of my use of such, as I only introduced this clause about halfway through January)

My Top Twenty for February

1.Tim Bowness – Lost in the Ghost Light
2. Blackfield – Blackfield V
3. Katie Noonan and Karin Schaupp – Songs of the Latin Skies

4. Aaron Watson – Vaquero
5. Daniel Herskedal – The Roc
6. Oleta Adams – Third Set
7. Massive Ego – Beautiful Suicide
8. Old 97's – Graveyard Whistling
9. Swifty McVay – Grey Blood
10. Ithilien – Shaping the Soul
11. Eisley – I'm Only Dreaming
12. Kari Jobe – The Garden
13. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – Zombies on Broadway
14. Ex Deo – The Immortal Wars
15. Little Big Town – The Breaker
16. Steel Panther – Lower the Bar
17. Black Star Riders – Heavy Fire
18. Stormzy – Gang Signs and Prayer
19. Iron Reagan – Crossover Ministry
20. Uppermost – Origins

Honourable mentions:

Oddisee – The Iceberg
The Mute Gods – Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth
Elbow – Little Fictions
Sampha – Process
Kyuhyun – One Voice
Big Sean – I Decided.
John Mayer – The Search for Everything, Wave Two
Jonwayne – Rap Album Two
Jidenna – The Cheif


My Bottom Twenty for January

1. Sun Kil Moon – Common as Light and Love are Red Valleys of Blood
2. Quelle Chris – Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often
3. Michael Bolton – Songs of Cinema

4. Ru Paul – The Essential
5. Kevin Garrett – False Hope
6. Ocean Grove – The Rhapsody Tapes
7. Lower Than Atlantis – Safe in Sound
8. Two-9 – FRVR
9. G4 – G4 Love Songs
10. Aaron Carter – Love
11. Brett Young – Brett Young
12. Una Healy – The Waiting Game
13. Hippo Campus – Landmark
14. Prince Royce – Five
15. Dams of the West – Youngish American
16. Sanctuary – Inception
17. Jens Lenkman – Life Will See You Now
18. Suicide Silence – Suicide Silence
19. Nav – Nav
20. The Feelies – In Between

Dishonourable Mentions:

Roc Marciano – Rosebudd's Revenge
Dirty Projectors – Dirty Projectors
Crystal Fairy – Crystal Fairy
Nikki Lane – Highway Queen
Jovi – 16 Wives
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Old 11-06-2017, 10:44 AM   #865 (permalink)
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All right then, time to check out some of the albums you've rated for February but which are


Album title: Fantasizing About Being Black
Artist: Otis Taylor
Suggested by: Frownland
Genre: Blues
Nationality: American
Release date: February 17
Position in Discography: Fifteenth
Fear Factor: Low
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Somewhat
Average RYM Score: 3.40
Cool and smooth to kick off with, great bass rhythm, very – well, there's just no other word for it – cool. Second track is a little more upbeat, little more frantic, and the banjo on “Banjo Bam Bam” is, again, cool and different. I like the introduction of wild electric guitar on “Hand On Your Stomach”. Stupid thing to say, I do know this, but it almost sounds like it could be the blues equivalent of a drone track. Okay I'll move on. Trumpet (cornet?) in the next track is great, really upbeat and happy, makes you want to move your feet, and I don't mean towards the exit, while the harmonica, one of my favourite “backup instruments”, adds a great feel to “D to E Blues”. A great album to kick back to and not worry too much about dissecting. After all, this is the blues, ya dig?

Check out more from this artist? Yup
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yup


Expectation Index: 0
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Old 11-06-2017, 11:33 AM   #866 (permalink)
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Album title: Unfold
Artist: The Necks
Suggested by: Frownland
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz
Nationality: Australian
Release date: February 10
Position in Discography: Nineteenth
Fear Factor: High
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No
Average RYM Score: 3.39
Whether this is supposed to disarm me or not, or just lull me into a false sense of security, there's a lovely piano and organ intro to the first track that is quite spacey, none (so far) of the frenetic, seemingly chaotic music that tends to characterise my poor understanding certainly of AGJ. Only four tracks, in fairness, but none of them under fifteen minutes, with the longest hitting twenty-one, so much to get through. Second one is more driven by what sounds like a church organ (some sort of organ anyway) with definitely a more jazzy tone than the opener. It's good stuff but 15-20 minutes of basically the same stuff is a little hard to take. It gets a bit boring at times. Good background music I guess. But I'm now halfway into the third track and I don't feel I can take another twenty minutes plus of this. Just too boring really.


Check out more from this artist? Probably not
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Again, probably not

Expectation Index: 3
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Old 11-06-2017, 11:49 AM   #867 (permalink)
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Old 11-06-2017, 12:07 PM   #868 (permalink)
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Old 11-06-2017, 12:09 PM   #869 (permalink)
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Album title: Targ
Artist: Bargou 08
Suggested by: Frownland
Genre: Electronic/World/Folk/Country
Nationality: German
Release date: February 17
Position in Discography: Debut
Fear Factor: High
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No
Average RYM Score: 3.39
It says this guy/band is German, but this sounds more like African chants than anything else, not that I'd know. Ah no, this is ****ing boring. Maybe I'm just not cut out for World Music, if this is what it is, but it sounds like that scene in Empire Strikes Back (or maybe it's Return of the Jedi, I don't know) where the Ewoks are all dancing around. I hate that ****. I'm outta here.


Check out more from this artist? No way
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Not sure yet; I certainly didn't like this anyway

Expectation Index: 0
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Old 11-06-2017, 12:15 PM   #870 (permalink)
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Ah no, this is ****ing boring.
What a shame. Those grooves are more infectious than spitting into an open wound.

And the group is from Tunisia, not sure where the German stuff came from.

Was wondering how you'd feel about that Necks album since it's pretty different from free jazz conventions. At least you know a little more about the less wild side of avant-garde jazz.
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