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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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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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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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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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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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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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
2017 | Neo-Soul | Listen
| Fading Photographs, Sunburnt & Mildewed |
Choice Cut ... 'A Toes (Shelf Inside Your Head)'
For Fans Of ... poppy fields, familial permanence, kaleidoscopic twining
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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