Usual rules for these short reviews. If the album is good, OK, if it’s bad, NO.
Any questions? No? Then let's start...
Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club | The goddess returns to earth and baptizes the country club with the sensuality of her vamp breath. Like everything she’s done, it’s perfect for clutching the sheets at night and yearning and thinking that somewhere in California there’s really someone who at night yearns and clutches the sheets thinking about you. - OK
Madlib - Sound Ancestors | You wouldn’t know it because you only listen to Depeche Mode, but Madlib is one of the best musicians in the world —provided you have the open mind to accept sampling as a pure art form. Even when he’s not making beats for street rappers, and like in this case, he prefers to keep his creations to himself, he manages to paint fragrant and elusive watercolors, full of magic, like no one else on the globe. - OK
The Weather Station - Ignorance | "Try these,” said Dr. Tuttle, handing me a bottle of sample pills across the desk. “Infermiterol. If these don't lay you out, I’ll make a complaint directly to the manufacturer in Germany. Take one and let me know how it goes.” - NO
The Black Keys - Delta Kream | The fact that these two made blues something you can seriously get it on to, freeing it from its sad reputation as the quintessential mood killer music, should guarantee them perpetual protection from any negative criticism. And indeed :) - OK
Iosonouncane - IRA | In the first album he copied Animal Collective, in the second Battisti, in this one he copies something he read about on Scaruffi.com and which he promotes in interviews as “cultural background” (i.e., the usual predictable stuff from those who listen to music with a stick up their ass, like Wyatt, Liars, etc.) and clearly produces oblong turds. - NO
Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams | Super pop album, especially if you've never listened to any pop outside of Childish Gambino. If you have managed to listen to at least half of a side of a random bad Fleetwood Mac album… well, you don’t care, since this work gives you more or less everything you need today, except for the money and time you’ve permanently lost in these last two damn years. But it partially manages to fill that empty space, really. - OK
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