albumJane DoeConverge4.5★the breakup record that screams. Jacob sounds like he's tearing something out of himself and the closer is eleven minutes of catharsis.Jun 18
albumIn the Aeroplane Over the SeaNeutral Milk Hotel4.5★took me a few tries honestly. the fidelity is rough and mangum sounds like he's about to cry the whole time, then one day it clicks and you're wrecked.Jun 18
songSilver Rocket (2012 Remastered Version)Sonic Youth5.0★the noise breakdown in the middle is the whole band's thesis in thirty seconds. then it snaps back into the song like nothing happened.Jun 18
albumSoundtracks for the BlindSwans4.5★two and a half hours that feels like being slowly buried, and somehow it's beautiful. not a starting point, but if you're in, it's the deep end.Jun 18
albumHeaven or Las VegasCocteau Twins4.5★you can't make out a single word and it doesn't matter, fraser's voice is just another synth up there. gorgeous front to back.Jun 18
albumDaydream NationSonic Youth5.0★Teen Age Riot opening the whole thing is a statement of intent. the tuning's falling apart and it rules, a double album that earns every minute.Jun 17
albumLovelessMy Bloody Valentine5.0★still don't think anyone's caught up to it. you stop trying to hear the guitars as guitars and just let the whole thing wash over you.Jun 17
albumHounds of LoveKate Bush4.5★side one is the singles, side two is why it's a masterpiece. a drowning concept suite that has no business working this well.Jun 17
albumSpirit of EdenTalk Talk4.5★they had a hit machine and threw it in the bin to make this. half the album is silence. nothing else off a major label in '88 sounds remotely like it.Jun 16
albumWhite PonyDeftones4.5★the one where they worked out the quiet is as heavy as the loud. Passenger with maynard is still the peak for me.Jun 16
albumSpiderlandSlint5.0★puts me on edge every time and i've heard it a hundred times. that quiet-loud thing everyone copied later, nobody did it this cold.Jun 16
albumMarquee MoonTelevision4.5★the title track is ten minutes and i always want more. two guitars actually talking to each other instead of just stacking riffs.Jun 16
albumAnts From Up ThereBlack Country, New Road4.5★Basketball Shoes is the best closer of the decade so far and i'll take that to the grave. knowing isaac left right after makes it land even harder.Jun 15
albumUntrueBurial5.0★those pitched-up vocals sound like getting a text from a ghost. defined a whole decade of uk music and still lonelier than anything that copied it.Jun 14
