The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
Two really important things: 1. This is a good album. Undeniably so. 2. I don’t love this album. History lessons will tell you that America needed to be a superpower […]
Category Archives: Pop
Belle and Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
To call Dear Catastrophe Waitress a “return to form” is silly; it automatically raises one’s expectations that this will somehow match If You’re Feeling Sinister. Let me squash that now – it doesn’t. […]
Beach House – Bloom
1. A little economics lesson is in order, I suppose, since it’s fitting with most artists who are incapable or otherwise unwilling to change their sound. The law of diminishing marginal […]
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
It’s not his best album – I’d give that prize to Honky Chateau, an underrated album if there ever was one – though I’ll call this one his second best. […]
Elton John – Honky Chateau
Sweeping declarations: 1. This is one of the best albums of 1972. 2. This is Elton John’s best album. It’s rather unfortunate that Elton John has built a reputation from […]
The Beach Boys – Surf’s Up
Other critics have nailed Surf’s Up in two words: 1. “Democracy sucks” —George Starostin. 2. “Flawed greatness” —Pitchfork‘s Dominique Leone. George Starostin ranks “Don’t Go Near the Water” as the […]
Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See
The first thing you need to know about this album is that you probably will not be able to move past the first song. Hell, assuming that the shoegaze and […]
