3 Album Reviews: Sparklehorse
Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (1995) – C+ I remember discovering Sparklehorse by word of mouth back in 2009, and I remember falling in love with a few gems within his discography: […]
Category Archives: 2000s
3 Album Reviews: Jay-Z and Nas in the 2000s
Jay-Z – The Blueprint (2001) – A It really was a blueprint. Not just of things to come but rather because within the album’s 64 minutes, The Blueprint covers a […]
3 Album Reviews: Jay-Z in the Early 2000s
The Black Album (2003) – A- I think I speak for all of us when I say that we were entertained, Jay-Z. I mean, how could you not be? The […]
Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
Wherein Jay-Z’s rapping takes a dark turn for the worst. He does fine on opener “What We Talkin’ About”, but I expect significantly more beat-wise from a combined team of […]
3 Album Reviews: Girls and Guitars (Jay Som, Laura Marling, Grouper)
Jay Som – Everybody Works (2017) – B+ Starts off just fine, with “Lipstick Stains” drifting in and out of focus; washes of acoustic guitar and horns providing ballast to […]
3 Album Reviews: The South (Goodie Mob’s best, OutKast’s Worst, UGK)
Goodie Mob – Soul Food (1995) – A- Some of the most paranoid lyrics and beats ever: Big Gipp’s only response to police brutality is silence, Cee Lo convinces himself […]
3 Album Reviews: Mountain Goats and Sufjan Steves (Internal Apocalypse)
Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (2015) – A- When Goths was announced with the all-caps-ed “NO GUITARS,” my first thought was “?!” and my second thought was that John […]
