Friday, August 6, 2021

Listening Log Past - Volume 83



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! 

July's Full-Length Reviews

Omnipotent Youth Society - Omnipotent Youth Society
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Francis Harris - Minutes Of Sleep
Baiuca - Solpor
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Steely Dan
Can't Buy A Thrill
1972 | Pop Rock | Listen

| Window Shopping On Rodeo Drive |

Choice Cut ... 'Reelin' In The Years'

For Fans Of ... unforgettable hooks, charming main streets, summer lust

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Deerhoof
Reveille
2002 | Noise Pop | Listen

| Letting The Tuneless Go To Town |

Choice Cut ... 'Frenzied Handsome, Hello!'

For Fans Of ... quirky students, endless non-sequiturs, disorienting hullabaloo

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Beach Boys
Smile Sessions
2011 | Baroque Pop | Listen

| Ideas Aplenty, Squandered To Time |

Choice Cut ... 'Heroes & Villains'

For Fans Of ... deconstructed psychedelia, greatness undone, campfire harmonies

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High Llamas
Gideon Gaye
1994 | Chamber Pop | Listen

| Lost In The 90's, Faded In Obsolescence |

Choice Cut ... 'Giddy & Gay'

For Fans Of ... blinding rays of sunshine, Steely Dan, a lethargic trot

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William Doyle
Your Wilderness Revisited
2019 | Progressive Pop | Listen

| Under The Apple Tree, Building Castles In The Air |

Choice Cut ... 'Zionshill'

For Fans Of ... orchestral indulgence, pontificating the ephemeral, breezy grass

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Chad VanGaalen
Soft Airplane
2008 | Indie Folk | Listen

| The Ramifications Of Toad Licking |

Choice Cut ... 'Bare Feet On Wet Griptape'

For Fans Of ... adolescent daydreams, DIY instrumentation, mundane tragedy

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L'Rain
L'Rain
2017 | Neo-Soul | Listen

| Fading Photographs, Sunburnt & Mildewed |


For Fans Of ... poppy fields, familial permanence, kaleidoscopic twining

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Theo Parrish
First Floor
1998 | Deep House | Listen

| Vacant Jazz Clubs, Vinyls Stuck On Loop |

Choice Cut ... 'First Floor Metaphor'

For Fans Of ... night's shadows, empty streets, losing oneself in the rhythm

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Ansome
Hounds Of The Harbour
2019 | Industrial Techno | Listen

| Strangling Demons Till Their Eyes Pop Out  |

Choice Cut ... 'Pedal To The Metal'

For Fans Of ... clubbing seals, concussions, apocalyptic wastelands

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Flotation Toy Warning
Machine That Made Us
2017 | Chamber Pop | Listen

| Journal Scribblings From A High Fantasy Castaway |

Choice Cut ... 'Controlling The Sea'

For Fans Of ... tales at sea, Shakespearean storytelling, elegant theatrics

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Tzusing
東方不敗
2017 | Industrial Techno | Listen

| Breaking Monastery Walls Via Bass Bashes |

Choice Cut ... '日出東方 唯我不敗'

For Fans Of ... foreign interference, eviscerating history, ruthless maraud

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Flipper's Guitar
Camera Talk
1990 | Shibuya-Kei | Listen

| Window Shopping With Hollywood Royalty |

Choice Cut ... 'Big Bad Bingo'

For Fans Of ... adorable suavity, perpetual summer, 10,000 Maniacs

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Toy
Toy
2005 | Folktronica | Listen

| Saturday Morning Cartoons From Another Dimension |

Choice Cut ... 'Golden Fish In Pool'

For Fans Of ... fanciful worlds, Animal Crossing, Fisher-Price instrumentation

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Your Old Droog
It Wasn't Even Close
2019 | East Coast Hip-Hop | Listen

| Bringing Pen & Paper To A Battle Rap |

Choice Cut ... 'Funeral March (The Dirge)'

For Fans Of ... a litany of similes, King Geedorah, chest-out braggadocio

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