Dodo's Album Reviews

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing Bottomless Pit. Not The Bottomless Pit, just Bottomless Pit. We open with Giving Bad People Good Ideas. It starts off with a woman singing the song title. And then... the song literally explodes. The guitars, the drums, the synths, they all clash together, with Ride barely piercing through the mix. Amazing opener. Next we have Hot Head, which opens very glitchy and noisy, only to move into a much slower section, filled with arps and Ride amongst the synths. Then moving back into the glitchy first section. And then once more, back to the slow part. Spikes is one of the grooviest songs on here. The bass on here is amazing, and the drums are some of my favourites. They hit especially hard here. The hook is also one of the catchiest. It would have fit in very nicely on The Money Store. Warping is one of the slowest Death Grips songs I've heard, but the cowbell chorus adds some great energy to the song, making it soun...

 Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, we are reviewing Skee Mask's third album and latest one at the time of writing, Pool. This was a surprise release on Bandcamp, and is also available on YouTube. I've heard talks that we doesn't have any plans of releasing it to larger streaming services, and I completely understand, given Bandcamp is a much better service from a monetary perspective. But anyway, let's get into the review. We open on Nvivo, which starts off with some ambient field recordings and highly reverberated SFX. Then a squelchy acid basslines emerges, alongside a quiet beat and occasional synth washes. Later on, louder hi hats come in as well. A very nice opener. Stone Cold 369 is in a similiar vein as the previous track, only this time a bit more bombastic, whilst not crossing the line of loud, glitchy beats. LFO has an array of swirling synths and not that much in terms of a beat. Nice breath of fresh air. Rdvnedub is a bit repetitive, given the ...

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing the best album of all time according to rateyourmusic.com , OK Computer. Radiohead had a massive step up from their debut to their previous album, and this is no different. But is it the best album of all time? That's up for debate. We open on the heavy, yet warm Airbag. The distortion on, basically everything, tells us this album is gonna be hard. The bells add a nice flavour to the percussion and Thom's vocals build on the warm sound of the song. And of course, the guitars are crunchy and punchy, giving us one of the best openers in all of Radiohead history. As acoustic guitars and easy drumming greet us to the next song, Thom hits some especially high notes. Not much to comment on here, but then, the instrumentals swell up a bit to bring in a groovy guitar melody, as Thom pokes fun at someone. The heavy distortion comes back again, alongside a ringing guitar solo at the three minute. But after that, the inst...

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, we are reviewing the debut mixtape of experimental hip hop group, Death Grips, Exmilitary. First of all, Exmilitary is a Sacramento-based experimental hip hop trio, featuring MC Ride on vocals and lyrics, Zach Hill on drums and Andy Morin on synths and production. They popped onto the underground scene with this very mixtape. So let's hear what it has to offer... We open on Beware, as an interview of Charles Manson plays over a groovy bassline. THEN SUDDENLY... You are bombarded with loud synths and fuzzy guitars, as a man screams at you. MC Ride spits bars like no other man... because he screams them, and not like an emo trap metal Soundcloud song. He gives his all to scare you. The mixing is not good either, thus creating a sound distinct to this group. Next we have one of the most popular songs from Death Grips, Guillotine. With little to no melodies, just a quiet bass and 808 drums. It has Ride's vocals in the forefront, screa...

 Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, we are reviewing the third and last album from Aphrodite's Child, 666. Now despite the very evocative title, it does not have links to Satanism or the spread of the worship of evil. Quite the opposite, it actually contains verses from The Book of Revelation, a.k.a. The Final Book Of The New Testament. Now that I have got that out of the way, this record is the band's most critically acclaimed, and for good reason. Let's talk about why it is. We open on a choir chanting "We found The System". Then we transition into Babylon, an acoustic rock song, with a very groovy feel to it, accompanied by some crowd screaming. A very nice song to be sure. We turn to a calmer demeanor, with Loud, Loud, Loud, featuring a young boy narrating about the day the world will stop. As wind chimes plink, we hear Mr. Demis' gentle voice, as we enter The Four Horsemen, referring to The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse. This song is an abs...

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, we are reviewing the third album in Pink Floyd's Big 4, Animals. This record was fueled by political instability and the displeasure with the goverment that the band had at the time. Tensions between Mr. Roger Waters, lead writer and bassist of the group, and Mr. Richard Wright, piano player of the group, were rising, later leading to Wright getting temporarily fired for a short amount of time. Let's see how this album sounds. We start with Pigs On The Wing Part 1, a short acoustic song, with an overall really warm feel. The previous song lasted just over a minute and a half. The next song, Dogs lasts 17 minutes... yeah. In this album, the band talks about the three classes of society: Pigs, Dogs and Sheep, in this descending order. We start with a nice, slower rock song, talking about a metaphorical Dog, who is growing older and older, getting more and more paranoid, and he grows older, he starts getting darker and darker though...

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. You know the deal, Queen, The Game, Anthony Fanta-, I mean let's jump straight into it. Play The Game opens on some reversed noises, rising into a soft rock song, with a nice driving piano, but a decent at best sounding guitar. The performance didn't impress me that much. Really was just a decent song. Next we have Dragon Attack, which was a much heavier and hard hitting song compared to the opener. The guitar this time sounded much more aggressive, and the bassline on here was especially nice. We see an upward trajectory for the album. funky bassline. it's my favourite song from queen. bites za dusto. Need Your Loving Tonight, however, sounded very cheesy. The vocal performance on this song is in no way impressing, or at least fun, like on Another One Bites The Dust. You could also replace the guitar on here with a synth, and it would sound the same. The solo towards the end was pretty sweet tho. it's a crazy little thing call...

  Welcome back everyone to my blog. Today, we are reviewing The News Of The World, the 9 o'clock news, here on Queen TV. Tonight's headliner is We Will Rock You . Ladies and gentlemen, it appears that we have already discussed this topic, because everyone at the moment is legally obligated to sing the chorus to this song whenever it comes on. Our second headliner is We Are The Champions. Once again, the entire human population must know this song, otherwise they will be deleted off of this world. Next we have Sheer Heart Attack. Not the album, but the song. We have loud, energetic guitar melodies, with heavy punk influences. The fast drums and Mr. Freddie Mercury's vocals work together to create a bloody good song. We now have a sudden change of tone, with the rather melancholic, mainly vocal and piano driven All Dead, All Dead. We have a nice and simple song here, ladies and gentlemen, not much else to say. Spread Your Wings was, in our humble opinion, an OK track. We did ...

Greetings everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing Pink Floyd's second studio album, A Saucerful of Secrets. Not much else to say, let's just jump into it. Starting off the album, we have Let There Be More Light, which starts off with a really catchy bass melody, of all things. And only after more than a minute, does Pink Floyd bring in a lead guitar. The riff towards the end is just amazing, the distortion and reverb make the guitar sound so heavy and spacey. The drums are especially powerful in this song, and I love how the song gets more and more chaotic as the track ends. Remember A Day was a pretty calm track, with some surprisingly soothing vocals and lovely piano melody. The bass sounds really nice on this track, and so does the guitar, only this time, it's a bit quiter. Set The Control For The Heart of The Sun was an abstract song, with some quiet drums, calm bassline and a piano driven lead, also incorporating SFX. This is another great track. ...

  Welcome back everyone to my blog. Today I will be reviewing The End of Electronics' first album, Union. As I mentioned in my   Voskhod review , I found out about this one-man band because of my affinity with Molchat Doma. I listened to his first album, and have to say... this album is pretty good. Not the best, but still really good. Let's dive deeper into it, shall we?  Kicking off the album is Night. It has a really interesting vibe to it, feeling like it's the beginning of your journey, and look out the window of your vehicle, you see rural areas and small towns. That's the feel thus song gives me. It has an amazing chorus instrumental and is just overall really well made!  Moving on, we have the oddly melancholic Union. Not that there is anything bad with that, but the instrumental gives me a sadder vibe. It really cool, it feels like the journey has taken a break, and you stopped at a gas station. The vocals are really cool in this song, and adds up to another...

Welcome back everyone to my blog. Today, I'll be reviewing Aphex Twin's fourth studio album, The Richard D. James Album. After the rather odd experience that was " ...I Care Because You Do ", I wasn't really expecting anything very enjoyable from this album, but low and behold, I was pleasantly surprised! Let's dive in deeper... Kicking off the album with 4. A strong start with a fast, skiddish beat and some violin-like melodies. Some synth pads scattered about, made for one of the best Aphex Twin songs in his whole discography! Cornish Acid had a harder, but slower beat compared to 4, mixing in some acid-like sounds here and there. Another pretty good track overall. Then comes Peek 824545201, and this song is all over the place, mixing in synths and fast, squelchy beats. Not the best, but still pretty good. Fingerbib was the chill song of this album, like the Alberto Balsalm of this release. I had a similiar motif to 4, mixing in violin melodies with a beat, ...

Welcome everyone to my music blog. Here, I shall be talking about different albums I have listened to. This week's post is about Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin. Now, I had a vague idea of A.T.'s existence for about a year now, but the only songs I knew from him were Windowlicker, Come to Daddy and Alberto Balsalm. However, my interest in him grew once more when I was reading the 8th part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Jojolion, in which there is a pair of enemies called the A.Phex Brothers with their stands, Schottkey Nr.1 and Nr.2, respectively. So I looked up the song Schottkey Nr.1 and found the song, only without Nr.1, but instead with 7th Path, and so I gave it a listen. I really enjoyed and said to myself: "This song really fits the A.Phex Brothers." After that, I started to listen to more of Aphex Twin's music and decided to listen to the album Schottkey was part of, Selected Ambient Works 85-92. When I first read the title, I said to myself: ...