I love that skinshedding album - the one where the band tosses off the sound that put them on the map and shows what they've really got. My absolute favorite is when a boring band morphs into something just strange enough to be interesting: Vitalogy, Zooropa, Surrender, Beautiful Garbage, etc. The fact that said album's usually super unpopular by comparison is just a hipster boner-tickling bonus.
So when I saw a lot of those on this list of underrated albums, I got excited and checked out tons of stuff off it (plus some of the early consensus bests that set up the underrating). Those reviews incoming, starting now.
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Inauspicious start: anything good here is slapped apart on every single 2 and 4, gigantic Albini-gone-wrong snares blasting to 11 in the mix, reminding you twice a bar how dead simple this is. The choruses are blunt and drawled, the guitars are standard, and a little goodcleanfun bass isn't enough to save this bog standard barbanding 2.5/5
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