Wednesday, March 4, 2009

February Album Review Update Roundup... and Missed Outs

Green means A2 and above.
Blue means changed grading from original.
Italics is a fail.

3 Feb

The Fray - The Fray - C6
Melinda Doolittle - Coming Back to You - B4
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Lonely Road - D7

4 Feb

Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - #4 - B3

9 Feb

Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You - C5

10 Feb

The Lonely Island - Incredibad - E8

16 Feb

Morrissey - Years of Refusal - C5

17 Feb

Thursday - Common Existence - C5
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - The Century of Self - B3
Asobi Seksu - Hush - C5
Mountains - Choral - B3
Dark Was the Night - B3
M. Ward - Hold Time - B4
N.A.S.A. - Spirit of Apollo - C5
Robyn Hitchcock - Goodnight Oslo - B4
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - A2

23 Feb

Jesse Rose - What Do You Do If You Don't? - C5

24 Feb

Clem Snide - Hungry Bird - B4
Joe Bonamassa - The Ballad of John Henry - B4
Prodigy - Invaders Must Die - C5
Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand - B4
J.J. Cale - Roll On - B3
Wendy & Lisa - White Flags of Winter Chimneys - B4
God Forbid - Earthsblood - D7
Laura Gibson - Beasts of Seasons - B4
Green River Ordinance - Out of My Hands - E8
Shemekia Copeland - Never Going Back - B3
Darwin Chamber - Monkey Business - B4
Tiga - Mind Dimension - EP - C5
Dorian Concept - When Planets Explode - A2
The Bran Flakes - I Have Hands - B4
Lamb of God - Wrath - C6

What I've Missed Out?

3 Feb

Benjy Ferree - Come Back to the Five and Dime, Bobby Dee Bobby Dee
"Everyone sounds like a bastard in here. Bastardized singer, bastardized bass, bastardized guitar, bastardized drums, everything's so bastard-like, bastard bastard bastard."
A2

11 Feb

His Orchestra - Field Guide to the Wilds
"Simple cheese pop, on the runaway pianos and poppy synths here and there - want pop? Pop's coming."
A2

22 Feb

Shadow Dancer - Golden Traxe
"How about a slightly more paranoid and technoid SebastiAn? Keeps it at a very hardcore place, wouldn't be surprised if poser gangsters were playing this kind of shit at the sides when I walk by. But hell they sure have good taste."
B3