#3673 Flowers Must Die - Kompost

3/5 just 6 more months till I can quit this project. none of this made an impression on me, all its swirling and yowling and warbles and surges and rages just mix to grey, or maybe I've gone colorblind

#3672 Anthony Phillips - The Geese and The Ghost

3/5 pleasant enough for the prog fan. But hemmed in, riding classical coattails without enough of a voice to carry things to the next level. A departure from the soon-expanding Genesis feels inevitable in retrospect

#3671 Beck - Hyperspace

2.5/5 I still don't know what the fuck is going on with Beck. I can't fathom that someone would make this because it was their vision, but I can't figure out who the fuck it's selling out to. Saw Lightning's kinda fun, but the rest is limp, barely there, empty of intention

#3670 Kurt Vile - Bottle It In

3.5/5 even by Kurt Vile standards, this's a slow one. As committed to letting the songs unfold as anyone -- is laziness the weakness or the point? Not much of it lands but maybe its not supposed to, you gotta admire a coast this long

#3669 Jacco Gardner - Somnium

3/5 pretty, catchy even, but with a squeaky-clean, voiceless lack of stakes that lands somewhere between exotica and library music

#3668 Gaz Coombes - World's Strongest Man

4/5 slow to start, with that kind of solo artist overstudied stiltedness, at first. Indebted to Albarn and Yorke in increasingly good ways. Invested in making an album that smolders, starts to burn on the second side, climaxes just before the end. Committed to making an album that plays as an album and isn't that refreshing

#3667 The Midnight Hour - The Midnight Hour

3/5 a way with a groove, but the vocals don't slot in, transplanted from another session.  vtfdrds4 b=gASD KLKGVZXK
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