enters the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at #25

courtesy of Spotify



from Ohio
5th album
it's rap crap

single

enters the Billboard Hot 100 Songs chart at #37

I like it
why are some Youtube clips called Visualizers
what does that mean?
looks like a video to me

Spotify listen yesterday (only remembered to post today)

from Perth, Australia
local supergroup made from members other Perth bands including Birds Of Tokyo
fourth album, i own the second one, 2009's "sound awake"
alt-rock/alt-metal/prog-metal/rock
basically a bunch of genres without actually mastering any of them
love the cover art, not liking the music though

i do not like this album

lead off single

YouTube listen

i only picked this because i thought the cover art looked interesting

Japanese/Aussie artist
Trip-Hop/Ambient Electronica/Alt-R+B stuff (whatever that is??)


lots of distortion ominous sounds on the opening track similar to those in the latest IT movies which was intriguing
then then we got the Trip-Hop/electronica crap with Shoegaze dreamy vocals
twenty tracks long but thankfully only 40 minutes, but 40 minutes i'll never get back LOL

i do not like this album

lead off single which has those ominous distortion sounds:  

enters the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at #1

courtesy of Spotify



from Texas
5th album
it's rap crap

16 tracks hit the Songs chart
highest at #14

This was released this past Friday, and I pray that it is all that James wants it to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KEBL3zgUj4

God bless you and him always!!!

Holly (a fan of him since 2008)

enters the Billboard Hot 100 Songs chart at #97

I don't like it

enters the Billboard Hot 100 Songs chart at #92

I don't like it

enters the Billboard Hot 100 Songs chart at #89

I don't like it

BIG BIG TRAIN ~ Woodcut


I will keep listening to their new releases which are technically great and I like the concept that they chose which is basically an artist losing himself inside a woodcut – the world he had created within, but despite all the musical prowess, I’m just not vibing much with this one. This is their second album with Alberto Bravin on lead vocals and he has a good rock voice, without doubt - I just can’t seem to feel it. Or maybe it’s just that he sounds generic – I dunno what it is. I find the secondary voice of Rikard Sjoblom much more interesting. In any event, I expect there will be plenty of takers - perhaps I am just grumpy and have unrealistic expectations!

This band fits the prog rock description, harking very much back to the 70’s, although the longest track on the 66 minute long album is a mere seven minutes and sixteen seconds in duration!  I’m kinda sorry that I not going to pursue it any further, but oh well – it is what it is. I most like the instrumental interlude “Hawthorn White” … could have done with some more of this ...