Death – Viet Cong – At eleven minutes on length you’d think this awesome rock drone push and punish finishing “The End” would slacken somewhere but it never relents and its unyielding, ugly power changes a good album to a great one – A
Gun Fightin Man – Ryan Bingham – Does Ryan think that dropping the “g” gives him legitimacy. It doesn’t and this is croaky crappola – C
Fade – Sleater-Kinney – This is a relatively lousy ending to the album – C+
Odds Of Even – Marilyn Manson – Did you make it this far? Your reward was this turgid slug – C-
Everything’s Coming Up Roses – The Night Terrors of 1927 – Sondheim and the Replacements have nothing to worry about – C
Spring – Lupe Fiasco – Lovely but slight – B
Spectacular Rival – George Ezra – Just dreadful, did he forget how to write a song? – D+
Twin Skeletons (Hotel In NYC) – Fall Out Boy – They left the worse for last, FOB by the numbers – C-
A Beginner’s Song – The Decemberist – Yuck sincerity – C
