31.7.09

My week in Jukebox (w/e 31/07/09)

Gaggle - Crows [5]
Jessica Jarrell - Armageddon [8]
Muse – United States of Eurasia (Collateral Damage) [3]
Matt & Kim - Daylight [3]
Chrisette Michele – Blame It On Me [8]
Gloriana - Wild at Heart [8]
Lily Allen - 22 [6]
It's Not Me, It's You is a frustrating album for its wild extremes of quality, from the divine "The Fear" to the unlistenably dire "Fuck You". As much as that, though, it suffers from too much stuff like "22" - sweet and accomplished pop with some of Allen's better serious lyrics that nonetheless doesn't achieve anything that The Bird and The Bee don't do better.
Kelly Clarkson - Already Gone [4]
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2 comments:

Ian said...

We might have to Have Words about that Matt & Kim song, my friend. You were one of the few without a stick up their ass about Gloriana, though, so...

if said...

Your blurb did make me feel a little bad about being so dismissive in writing about it, but it did lose me very quickly despite coming into it with no expectations either way.