Reviews/opinions of Albums I have listened to in under 200 words (due to lack of time, and listening to far too much new music). You can find me on Last.fm as SWFSWF (as of 01/04/2012)
Year: 2012 Genre: Pop/Rock Style: Alt. Rock/Indie Rock/Lo-Fi SF Stand out Track: Fall In Album's Spotify URL: Cloud Nothings – Attack On Memory Pants Rating: 50%(% of album tracks that are simply making up the numbers)
Review/Opinion
The first track is not too lively, or very good. However, the album does improve from that point on, but not by much. Our Plans is not a bad track. I'll probably delete the album from my Spotify folders.
Year: 2012 Genre: Rap Style: British Rap SF Stand out Track: Elephant in the Living Room Album's Spotify URL: Speech Debelle – Freedom Of Speech Pants Rating: 58%(% of album tracks that are simply making up the numbers)
Review/Opinion
Speech Debelle was awarded the Mercury prize in 2009 for her first album "Speech Therapy", an album that I listened to many times, and still dig out now and again, as it is refreshingly unique, the unique part is she is a British Rapper who can rap, and has a vocabulary.
I am very disappointed in this album, mainly because I had such high expectations for it. There is no spark, no big tracks, a few tracks where the chorus is half decent, but pretty much a bit of rapping over some noise.
Rating: 3/5 It's OK - I'll listen again. Year: 2011 Genre: Rap Style: Alternative Rap SF Stand out Track: One Time Album's Spotify URL: The Roots – Undun Pants Rating: 46%(% of album tracks that are simply making up the numbers)
Review/Opinion
I was a late comer to the Roots, I mean really late, as in "How I Got Over", I really liked the majority of that album to begin with, but before long, a few of the songs began to grate on me, so far with "Undun" this has not been the case.
Undun starts off with a ridiculous Intro, so I have excluded this from the pants rating. Moving on from that it is all pretty positive, it helps that they can all Rap, which is not always the case in a group/clan.
Some good tracks, and some decent ones, One Time is a good track, the chorus of Lighthouse runs it very close for my track of the album, Tip the scale another that stood out.. There is not a bad track, just seems to blend together well, never going to blow you away though. The album fizzles out with 4 odd instrumentals, take those out the pants rating would actually only be 22%.
