When you can’t find it on Google.

A few album ratings – Part 7

********** 10
James Brown – Love Power Peace, Live at the Olympia, Paris 1971 (June 1992, soul)

********* 9
Motor City Drum Ensemble – DJ-Kicks (July 2011, house, soul)

********* 9
Young Galaxy – Ultramarine (April 2013, dream pop)

********* 9
Stars of the Lid – And Their Refinement of the Decline (April 2007, ambient)

********* 9
Guns n’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction (July 1987, hard rock)

********* 9
Lil Hardin Armstrong – Chicago: The Living Legends (1961, jazz vocal)

******** 8
Haim – Days Are Gone (September 2013, indie pop)

******** 8
Mazzy Star – Seasons of Your Day (September 2013, neo-psychedelia)

******** 8
Mayer Hawthorne – Where Does This Door Go (July 2013, blue eyed soul)

******** 8
Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa – Seesaw (May 2013, blues rock)

******** 8
Bombino – Nomad (April 2013, Tishoumaren, blues rock)

******** 8
Jim James – Regions of Light and Sound of God (February 2013, neo-psychedelia)

******** 8
J.D. McPherson – Signs & Signifiers (October 2010, rockabilly)

******** 8
Balmorhea – All Is Wild, All Is Silent (March 2009, post-rock, modern classical)

******** 8
Tracy Thorn – Out of the Woods (March 2007, synthpop)

******** 8
Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I May See (September 1993, neo-psychedelia)

******* 7
Gary Clark Jr. – Blak and Blu (October 2012, blues rock)

******* 7
Sun Glitters – Cosmic Oceans (April 2011, chillwave)

Part 1 (March 11, 2011)
Part 2 (July 26, 2011)
Part 3 (January 11, 2012)
Part 4 (June 11, 2012)
Part 5 (September 12, 2012)
Part 6 (March 1, 2013)

Curated from my Rate Your Music profile.

In the past six months, I’ve mainly been scrobbling music through MOG and iTunes on my phone. Below is a fairly accurate list of my top artists in that time period (in parenthesis: number of times I’ve listened to tracks by that artist).

************ (242) Daft Punk
********* (156) Young Galaxy
******** (139) Charles Bradley
******** (135) Stars of the Lid
******** (134) Nine Inch Nails
***** (106) Led Zeppelin
**** (80) Cliff Martinez
**** (75) Major Lazer
**** (74) Queens of the Stone Age
**** (70) Janelle Monáe
*** (66) Tegan and Sara
*** (63) Tycho

20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s In Utero. Heart-Shaped Box:


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