Curse of the Music Diary (2025)

15.6.

I don't care what kind of metalcore, svencore or noise rock they call this shit, but it bangs no cap. This is the kind of intense and raw new stuff I'm actually looking for: something creative to surprise me.

15.6.

This album was marketed as a return to from, but I disagree. The first half is very weak and the overall style more acoustic than the old classics. I think the longer it goes the better it gets, and the last song is actually brilliant. I doubt this was by accident.

15.6.

Pretty good synthpop. Thumbs up from me.

15.6.

Nice try, Geordie boy. You took these several music genres and just edited them together, not just influences or ideas, but whole genres. That's very lazy, not creative. But it was a nice try, so I'll give you that much.

15.8.

Killer art pop and neo psychedelia. There should be more albums like this. There's plenty of plastic sound, but not too much. The bass sounds deliciously organic.

15.6.

This synth-hiphop didn't do anything for me.

15.6.

This is some great synth-based hiphop. I surprisingly enjoyed it very much. The use of rhythm was very creative and stood out.

15.6.

I have no memory of this album at all. Then it must be very dull.

15.6.

Minimalist Japanese pop. I like it.

14.6.

Metalcore mixed with nu metal. This is just what I want from modern metal: use the damn rhythm and whatever new tools you got to create something else than the usual shit.

14.6.

Nice Mexican folk music. That lady can sing, my god.

14.6.

You can't tell me I didn't give a fair try or get outside my comfort zone. This is great on paper, since there's a lot of influences and different genres creatively mixed here. But then again, I would much rather have something I can just pick up and enjoy instead of needing to read some special description or philosophy to find any enjoyment out of music. Like maybe you just like something and then find out later it's somehow special or smart.

In many ways this album has a lot of things I really hate in modern music, like the overuse of autotune, too much reliance on boom bass, lyrics you can't understand and shit. I know many people can't enjoy grindcore or other extreme metal genres, so I guess this is the same for me. This sounds too lifeless and plastic for my ears, I need more organic human elements.

14.6.

Fuck I hate these hipster metal bands that just play the usual blast beats and scream, but then they try to act cool with these standout cover arts and some minor tweaks here and there. It's mostly just the same shit again, no creativity. You guys just can't seem to be able to step out of this stupid box.

14.6.

Well it's brand new bass-heavy conscious hiphop album. Sorry, I didn't like it but at least I gave it a try.

14.6.

I don't know about you, but I was eagerly waiting for this album to end, so I cold finally move to something else entirely.

14.6.

Again, more baroque. This is brilliant, best of the both worlds.

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13.6.

This kind of music is where Jarrett shines: baroque piano music.

13.6.

Standard jazz, very old school.

13.6.

Out of all of them, this is the best. Jarrett peaked in the 70's. At times you think you're listening to some Chopin piece, but it's actually just Jarret improvising something out of his mind. That's insane.

12.6.

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8.6.

Oh boy, after I'm done with these I'm going to have to grab a good cold beer. It's going to take some time until I'm there.

8.6.

This is a very cool collection of live recordings. And by that I mean that it's not necessarily one song per track, but whole concerts, and the duration of this beast is roughly 4 hours. And there will be more collections like this in the listening for the next few days. This is Sparta!

7.6.

I think this is their best, or among the best very least. There's not enough technical thrash metal in this world. This stuff is the only really interesting thing in the whole subgenre, everything else is mostly just generic and boring.

7.6.

There are cool ideas here, like all the technicality that Germans tend to do so well, but the overall quality isn't quite there.

7.6.

It's the usual, plus I had some nice live recordings from the late 80's that sounded good. Now I'm done with Gambale. Oh, boy.

7.6.

This is some unofficial Russian release or something like that, so don't expect this to blow your socks.

7.6.

I used to love this thing, but it just sounds meh to me now.

7.6.

Pretty meh.

7.6.

Phew, I feel like I won't be listening to Patitucci ever again. This is it, I'm done.

7.6.

One more, baby, one more!

7.6.

This is where Gambale started slipping. I don't know if he just tried to progress from his usual style and go new places.

7.6.

This duo is still cool.

7.6.

The Chopin jazz trio is back, and it's... something.

6.6.

Gambale with more latino style. For some reason I really enjoyed this one a lot. The songs feel very long, though.

6.6.

Boring and almost very funny jazz from you know who.

6.6.

At one time it was very fashionable to record these kinds of collaboration albums with two world class guitarists jamming it out. Can't blame them, because these sound so cool.

6.6.

Just another Patitucci. Nothing that special. Hang on there, we're almost done with this guy.

6.6.

A very typical Gambale in a sense that there are plenty of brilliance here, like that one part where he throws in some cool reggae influences, and then there are parts where he is holding back too much.

6.6.

Another one of these, and I still like them. Great fusion with attitude, but it wasn't as tight as before.

5.6.

This is essentially the same as the previous one, but I think now there's a little more variety thanks to all the great guest musicians.

5.6.

This is very cool smooth old school jazz with some nice latino flavour. In a way I really like this.

5.6.

I think where this album falls short is the fact that Frank is playing with a local band instead of his usual pals. It just sounds less good here.

5.6.

Ah, more of this goodness. I approve this trio.

5.6.

Stock jazz album.

4.6.

Here's another Gambale. Pretty good album. His blues-driven guitar tone sounds particularly great here. It's like he cut the speed and instead went for more pinch harmonics, bends and such.