What's a Listening Log? Well, the idea is quite simple. It's a monthly segment that consolidates all the mini-reviews Dozens Of Donuts has given on RateYourMusic over the past month (excluding separate, full-length reviews), split between the Past and Present. A straightforward grading scale has been put in place, ranging from A+ to F-, with C acting as the baseline average. There is no set amount of reviews per month, just however many I get around to reviewing. Enjoy!
March's Full-Length Reviews
Dirty Beaches - Badlands
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
ACO - irony
King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader
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Mainstream
1987 | Pop Rock | Listen
| Compromising Integrity With Sights Set On Stardom |
Choice Cut ... 'Mr. Malcontent'
For Fans Of ... promising optics, sophisticated romance, tempered anthems
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Waiting For The Sirens' Call
2005 | Alternative Rock | Listen
| Contractually Obligated To Produce |
Choice Cut ... 'Waiting For The Sirens' Call'
For Fans Of ... endurance dance sessions, radio Rock, out-of-touch lyrics
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Lesser Matters
2003 | Dream Pop | Listen
| Reminiscing Over A Summer Fling Crush |
Choice Cut ... 'Against The Tide'
For Fans Of ... saccharine wanderlust, memorable melodies, a Strokes / Sweet Trip merger
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Thank You
2019 | Electro-Industrial | Listen
| Pummeling Oneself With Knives & Hammers |
Choice Cut ... 'DEATH / BAD GIRL'
For Fans Of ... sloppy seconds, harsh distortion, melody under duress
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Scenes From The South Island
1995 | Ambient | Listen
| Carried By Wind, A Lone Tumbleweed Drifts |
Choice Cut ... 'Winding It Out In The High Country'
For Fans Of ... locale-based Ambient, shifty acoustics, dehydrated treks
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Phylyps Trak
1993 | Minimal Techno | Listen
| Backbreaking Labor Opposite A Busy Rave |
Choice Cut ... 'Phylyps Trak'
For Fans Of ... industrial streets, factories working overtime, oppressive worker-bees
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Ett Fall Och En Lösning
1997 | Indie Rock | Listen
| Enriching & Refining 90's Moxie |
Choice Cut ... 'Rock'n'roll Tar Död På Mig!'
For Fans Of ... proper schizoids, head-bopping rhythms, a solid Pere Ubu cover
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And She Closed Her Eyes
1994 | Singer/Songwriter | Listen
| A Little Star Observes From A Reticent Alcove |
Choice Cut ... 'Little Star'
For Fans Of ... pure souls, wilting romantics, acoustic library tales
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Paradise Cinema
2020 | Tribal Ambient | Listen
| Drummer Boy Exploring The Uninhabited |
Choice Cut ... 'Liberté'
For Fans Of ... fourth world cinematics, percussion layering, background tropicalia
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Kytytsi
1999 | Avant-Folk | Listen
| European Peasants Kibitzing Over Magic Realism |
Choice Cut ... 'Ostrożni'
For Fans Of ... hardened medieval Folk, inaccessible discordance, grating rustic idealism
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Love & Affection For Stupid Little Bitches
2019 | Electro-Industrial | Listen
| Gripping To Melody As Society Crumbles |
Choice Cut ... 'MINDCRUSHED'
For Fans Of ... coping mechanisms, playful bombast, productive teamwork
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Song Cycle
1967 | Baroque Pop | Listen
| People Watching On The Ol' Village Green |
Choice Cut ... 'Palm Desert'
For Fans Of ... fever dreams, centennial celebrations, left field precursors
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On Acid
2012 | Tech House | Listen
| Enduring Through Winter's Blight |
Choice Cut ... 'Felicity'
For Fans Of ... sterile beats, smooth surfaces, chronic dub storms
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World Music
2013 | Ambient | Listen
| Background For A Particularly Excitable Mind |
Choice Cut ... 'Non2'
For Fans Of ... low-key afternoons, childlike imaginations, casually-foreign loops
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Quadrant Dub
1994 | Dub Techno | Listen
| Shoulder Struts At 4 A.M. |
Choice Cut ... 'Quadrant Dub II'
For Fans Of ... sweaty nights, emotionless LSD trips, stairs to the stars
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Pulling Our Weight
2003 | Noise Pop | Listen
| Melancholy With The Sun Beaming Down |
Choice Cut ... 'I Don't Need Love, I've Got My Band'
For Fans Of ... weighted melodies, falling in love, falling out of love
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Music Complete
2015 | Alternative Dance | Listen
| One Final Spree, Unable To Be Set Free |
Choice Cut ... 'Nothing But A Fool'
For Fans Of ... bloated music, insistent rhythms, Electro-based New Order
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Hinterland
2013 | Tech House | Listen
| Desperate To Awaken Dormant Beasts |
Choice Cut ... 'Stems'
For Fans Of ... lethargic Tech House, unimaginative producers, snow-covered landscapes
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