#singersongwriter
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Sheer Mag - Need to Feel Your Love: 3.5 stars
Upgraded from a neutral. Critical darlings, but just the kind of screechy femme punk I don't collect.
Le Grand Kalle - Volume 1: 7 (B+)
Not bothering too much with this one or seeking in physical, given the definitive compilation released in 2013.
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels: 7 (B+)
Released as a free digital download, barely a half hour long, so basically an EP on steroids. Later re-released on CD, but I'll stick with the freebie and skip physicalizing it, given length, release history, and grade.
Beck - Beercan [CD maxi-single]: liked
Downgraded from a 7 (B+) and de-shelved in 2020. Kept the "Loser" single though.
Saturday, September 23, 2017
Thomas Mapfumo - The Chimurenga Singles 1976-1980: 8 (A-)
Since I have another early singles collection, as well as a best-of, I'm not going to pick this up in physical, especially given that they are prohibitively expensive.
Peter Tosh - Live at the One Love Peace Concert: 3.5 stars
Spotty, but outstanding on certain songs. Tosh's voice is not in its best form. And the sound quality is pretty bad. Plus it's a live one, so not going in the collection. But if you like Tosh, or reggae, you should hear this.
Rolling Blackouts C.F. - The French Press: 9 (A)
Better and way cheaper than the first. Reasonably priced for an EP. I'm grateful to Christgau for bringing these two EPs to wider attention (including mine), but in my opinion he got the grades backwards.
Rolling Blackouts C.F. - Talk Tight: 3.5 stars
Ended up buying it, because it's NZ alternative, Xgau gave it an A, and it's an EP.
Oddisee - The Iceberg [honorable mention]
:-) [Downgraded from 7 (B+). I find his rap voice irritating. Four listens.]
White Lung - Deep Fantasy [honorable mention]
:-) [Lowered from 7 (B+)] [Not quite sure how this made the Rolling Stone list of 40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time. 10 songs in 22 minutes.]
National Badema - Original Kasse Mady
:-| [The big, long track leading this off ("Nama") is also on Les Nuits de Bamako. Otherwise, fairly nondescript.]
Spoon - The First Two Albums: liked
I think Telephono is probably the better of these two, and it's possible that it or A Series of Sneaks is actually a 7 (B+), but the important point, justifying the batch review, is that this sounds like a different, less consequential band, more simple hardcore/punk than whatever they later became. I don't find these albums necessary for a Spoon collection. Four listens each. I also listened to the EPs Soft Effects and Love Ways three times each - "liked" both.
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