Dodo's Album Reviews

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing the latest Radiohead album at the time  of writing this post, A Moon Shaped Pool. This album was released after Thom Yorke's divorce, and the band's producer, Nigel Godrich, losing his father. Thus, the album is somewhat of a mass exodus, where the band let's out all of it's mournful emotions out onto a musical canvas. Let's see how that turned out. We open with Burn The Witch, which revolves around a string arrangement and synth bass. Thom's comes in with the vocals, however they are incredibly reverberated, similiar to a The Weeknd vocal mix. Slowly, the song spirals into a powerful crescendo, as the strings start becoming more and more dissonant. Next we have Daydreaming, which is one of Radiohead's saddest songs ever released. It revolves around a soft piano arpeggio. The whole song features many background effects, similiar to chimes and over reversed effects. The whole song mainly re...

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing the guided tour through the apocalypse, Kid A. Thom Yorke, front man of Radiohead said that Kid A will be the name of the first human clone, and that this album represents the environment in which the clone grows up in. With no singles or music videos, and with one of the most critically acclaimed albums of all time being it's predecessor, many people were expecting more rock 'n' roll from Radiohead, similiar to The Bends and OK Computer , but instead, they got a barren wasteland of sound, bringing in many influences from around the music world. Let's see what they've got... Right off the bat, we are greeted to the cold synth chords and glitchy vocals of Everything In It's Right Place. A muted kick drum and weird, heavily filtered vocals ring in the background. This song is emotionally emotionless. By that I mean, the cold synths combined with Thom's vocals create this beautiful, indescri...

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be reviewing Pink Floyd's final album, The Endless River. This record was released 20 years after The Division Bell, which was considered the band's final release, but no. This album was comprised of scraps and instrumentals from The Division Bell sessions, also featuring only one song with vocals. Let's see how this record sounds then... We open on Things Left Unsaid, a pretty nice ambient opener. I'm starting to see a pattern here, that with every album during this David Gilmour-led era, we open on an ambient song. Anyway, this is pretty nice. It's What We Do sounds like a cheap knock-off of Welcome To The Machine. Ebb And Flow is a short section with not that much to it. Sum is a pretty nice rock song. And Skins, Unsung and Anisina sounds pretty much the same. The Lost Art Of Conversation has some pretty nice strings and pianos. On Noodle Street is actually pretty jazzy. Definetly a highlight of the record. N...

  Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today I will be reviewing the various singles and EPs that Mr. Richard D. James has released under the pseudonym, Aphex Twin. I will be doing this for every other band or singer I will be reviewing, if the said artist has enough. For example, The End of Electronics has only one single, and as such, I cannot make an entire review for only one song. With that being said, this might just be the longest post I have ever made, so strap in folks. This is gonna be a long one. ~~~ Analogue Bubblebath (1991) I know that this wasn't originally released under the Aphex Twin nickname, but I will still be reviewing it. Starting off the album we have the track, Analogue Bubblebath. It has a very clear 85-92 vibe to it, and is surprisingly calm and soothing to listen to. Than a sudden change for more intense melodies, Isoprophlex reminded me of the less beat driven songs on ...I Care Because You Do , squelchy sounding synths and glitchy drums...

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...

Greetings, everyone! How are y'all doing? I hope you're all doing great. Anyways, today we will be talking about the highly experimental Aphex Twin album, "...I Care Because You Do". This album, leaving aside it's cover lol, was quite a handful and left me with a weird taste in my mouth. The music was all over the place and the beats we're messy. Let's get a bit more in depth, shall we? The first song, Acrid Avid Jam Shred, was a pretty nice start to the album, giving off a hip-hop type beat, with a fuzzy synth melody alongside it. It was very noise-rich and had some weird sound effects here and there, but was overall a good song. The Waxen Pith had a very nostalgic vibe for some reason, but at the same, felt very melancholic, like something was coming to a close, like moving out of town, leaving your friends behind, seeing all the places you've been to fade away. I don't know, it just felt very sad and is one of my favourite songs o the album. Wax...

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: ...