Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Jun 30
I was very excited to hear that Angelspit had a new album coming out this year. Not so much because I’d been really impressed by the band in the past, but simply because 2008 looks to be a really lackluster year for releases - so any addition to that list is very welcome. Don’t get [...]
Jun 29
Yes, it’s a funny title. It wasn’t intentional, but I’ll go with it. The short version: should an album have to be absolutely jaw dropping to earn a score of 10/10, or just excellent throughout - but maybe not as good as my absolute favorite albums? And did I give Nightwish’s Dark Passion Play too [...]
Jun 4
I guess I’m kind of obligated (blogligated?) to write about music stuff, even when I’ve got nothing good to say about it. Yes, contrary to the way my previous posts would seem, I don’t like every scrap of music I listen to, I’m just infinitely more apt to write about the ones that I actually [...]
Feb 20
Oh, nevermind that would be Within The Realm of A Dying Sun, so I was close. And I wasn’t trying to be creative - that was actually the first thing that popped into my mind when I wrote that title. Given the positive response last time, I thought I’d look into what people actually wanted, [...]
Dec 19
Taken from a post in my last.fm group People With An Absurdly Large Music Collection (join!), here’s my favorite albums of 2007, followed by some of the more important new musical discoveries from this year that aren’t actually new (this is a fairly concise list of them, I’d already been writing the first section for [...]
Sep 23
Even though this has already been reviewed a million times (regardless of the fact that it hasn’t even been released yet ), I thought I should contribute my thought on the new Nightwish album.