Hot damn. Now maybe I can actually publish a review again. Thanks for your patience. Enjoy! https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Ridley2014/top-200-albums-of-the-2010s/
Top 200 Albums of the 2010s
TWI – 2020 update
Very brief, for any who might be following. Well resuming publishing on here is at the top of my NYR list (at least the part of it that doesn't relate to efficiency in receiving income), but before that there will be a (sadly unannotated) 2019 list, followed by a (annotated) decade list that, long story … Continue reading TWI – 2020 update
The Caretaker – Everywhere at the End of Time
September 22, 2016-March 14, 2019 / History Always Favours the Winners 10 You are an unbelievably complex, living, breathing, and sentient piece of biological achievement. To simply frown takes an incredible amount of muscle use, and every step you take costs even more. Every day in your brain countless neutrons are firing and keeping you … Continue reading The Caretaker – Everywhere at the End of Time
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
March 1969 / MGM 10 This is a topic I may or may not actually go into more detail on in another review, but The Velvet Underground really were the most important band of the 60s. The Beatles popularized the new medium of rock music, and were obviously one of the most crazy-popular artists of … Continue reading The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
April 5, 2019 / Sub Pop 9.5 The entire world will be underwater someday, maybe. It seems to already be in the world of Natalie Mering, whose fourth album under the Weyes Blood Moniker, Titanic Rising, seems to rest underneath countless waves of shimmering, reflecting something, maybe we're hearing it emanating right from under the … Continue reading Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
100 gecs – 1000 gecs
May 31, 2019 / Dog Show 8.0 As an autistic guy, it's admittedly not often that I find something like this, an album, book, movie, whatever, that I can't find myself able to really cohesively describe. In the case of an album, the part in question that eludes me is not just how the album … Continue reading 100 gecs – 1000 gecs
Vanishing Twin – Age of Immunology
June 15, 2019 / Fire 7.6 I already did some sobbing about the late Trish Keenan and all that Broadcast-related stuff back in my review of Haha Sound, but the truth is I really would like to see the spirit of delightfully-quirky psychedelic pop continue on. Hold on, what's this? This is psychedelic AND quirky! … Continue reading Vanishing Twin – Age of Immunology
Nilüfer Yanya – Miss Universe
March 22, 2019 / ATO 9.0 In Your Head, the first actual song on Miss Universe, is one that is written in a very peculiar way. On the outside it doesn't sound very out of the ordinary, and for the most part it's just very well-crafted and dependable indie pop, but in my mind at … Continue reading Nilüfer Yanya – Miss Universe
Avey Tare – Cows on Hourglass Pond
March 22, 2019 / Domino 9.1 My very first review from 2014 or something was for Oh, Inverted World by The Shins, but my next first review from early 2016 (before I had joined RYM and just over three months before my final first review, which is at the bottom of this site) was for … Continue reading Avey Tare – Cows on Hourglass Pond
Ween – The Mollusk
June 24, 1997 / Elektra 10 (March 20, 2019) It's genius! Bravo! Bravo, I say! When I saw The Spongebob Squarepants Movie all those times all those years ago an album like The Mollusk was something I would never have even imagined existed, never mind was contributing its greatest song to the movie soundtrack, one that played on many … Continue reading Ween – The Mollusk
Totally Worth It 