Album Recommendations

The best way I can sum up my obsessions as a listener is that, if it was played on 120 Minutes, I like it. I like hooky songwriting, strange noises, big fuzzy basses, gnarly drum tones, interesting voices, and bands that know when to end a song. Beyond that, I will occasionally defend butt rock, mom rock, turn of the millennium pop rock, and various other genres considered uncool. I probably also have untapped interest in warped electronica and really lo-fi, crappy hip-hop music. Ask me again in ten years.

The old five-point scale has been retired in favor of just rating stuff 1-10, which allows me a much more nuanced final rating. Still don't take it that seriously. Most of these come from my own collection, so the grades skew rather high. Your results may vary if you send me stuff to review.

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Total number of reviews to date: 165
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My ten most recent reviews:

Year Album Name Artist Score Reviewed
2025 Money metalynx -1 July 21, 2025
1990 Pocketwatch Foo Fighters 9 July 9, 2025
1997 The Colour and the Shape Foo Fighters 9 July 9, 2025
2019 Live From the Artists Den Soundgarden 6 July 7, 2025
2004 Palookaville Fatboy Slim 8 June 23, 2025
1991 Pocket Full of Kryptonite Spin Doctors 8 June 16, 2025
1998 All the Pain Money Can Buy Fastball 8 June 9, 2025
2005 The Back Room Editors 9 June 2, 2025
2003 Antonymic c.layne 9 May 30, 2025
2014 Maps of Us c.layne 9 May 30, 2025

And ten random ones from the archive:

Year Album Name Artist Score Reviewed
2002 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco 10 September 11, 2024
2005 The Sun Will Come Out to Blind You c.layne 5 May 30, 2025
1998 All the Pain Money Can Buy Fastball 8 June 9, 2025
1999 Shapeshifter Marcy Playground 10 July 8, 2023
1999 One Part Lullaby The Folk Implosion 6 July 18, 2024
2007 Shark Week c.layne 10 December 21, 2018
2015 Better Nature Silversun Pickups 7 May 26, 2025
2001 Useful Music Josh Joplin 8 September 27, 2024
2024 Demos (2001-2002) Autolux 8 January 28, 2025
2023 Music for Kids The Folk Implosion 7 August 2, 2024