Dodo's Album Reviews

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing the penultimate album from Pink Floyd, The Division Bell. This would be the band's last album in 20 years, and last with founding member, Richard Wright. Let's see what this album has to offer. We open the album similiar to it's predecessor, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason , with Cluster One, a very nice, atmospheric opener. We find airy synth chords and reverberated guitar plucks. Next we have What Do You Want From Me. A very dramatic song that sounds like some of the deeper cuts from A Momentary Lapse Of Reason. Loud, echoey, and overall, not Pink Floyd. Coming up, we find Poles Apart, a song that is way too long, and we don't even find anything interesting. Marooned brings us something reminiscent of Us And Them from The Dark Side Of The Moon . Definetly one of their best songs from this era. A Great Day For Freedom is a rather boring song. Not that much to say, I can't find anything special about ...

Greetings everyone! Quick disclaimer, this will be a long post, so grab yourself some tea while you read. Anyway, today I will be reviewing Aphex Twin's second album, Selected Ambient Works Volume II. After the amazing EP that was 85-92 , I had high hopes for this album. With that being said, let's get straight into the review. Right off the bat, Cliffs (I will be referring to the fan names) was a great start to the album, it's main motif being a woman's vocals being repeated constantly over the soothing ambient chords. I could hear the woman say "песня" (pesnya), which means song in Russian. Then suddenly, Radiator was a pretty creepy song, with a repeating melody that sounded like a stock phone alarm for some reason. Even though it had some very eerie chords, it was overall a pretty enjoyable track. But then, after the song had ended, Rhubarb's calm, welcoming chords started playing, giving me a comforting feel and was overall just a super chill, meditat...