Aphoristic Album Reviews

Obsessively chronicling one person’s exploration of popular music

Welcome to Aphoristic Album Reviews, where I discuss highlights from the last sixty years of popular music. I write album reviews, highlight my favourite albumsblog regularly, and make lists.

Recent blog posts

Music Quiz: Three Dog Night songs

I often try to steer away from single-artist quizzes. But...

Simon & Garfunkel Albums: Ranked from Worst to Best

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel started their recording career as Tom...

Nuggets II: I Wish I Was Five by Scrugg

The success of Rhino’s 1998 Nuggets boxset justified a follow-up...

Recent blog posts

Music Quiz: Three Dog Night songs

I often try to steer away from single-artist quizzes. But...

Simon & Garfunkel Albums: Ranked from Worst to Best

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel started their recording career as Tom...

Nuggets II: I Wish I Was Five by Scrugg

The success of Rhino’s 1998 Nuggets boxset justified a follow-up...

Teddy Lester’s Quotes

I have an irrational love for John Finnemore’s Teddy Lester...

Music Quiz: Third in Line

Can you identify 20 artists by their third album? https://www.sporcle.com/games/pdigoe/born-to-sporcle...

Recent review pages

Midnight Oil Album Reviews

Rob Hirst and Jim Moginie formed Farm in Sydney in...

The Last Dinner Party Album Reviews

The Last Dinner Party were the breakout UK stars of...

Hayley Williams Album Reviews

Hayley Williams is best known as the lead vocalist of...

Recent review pages

Midnight Oil Album Reviews

Rob Hirst and Jim Moginie formed Farm in Sydney in...

The Last Dinner Party Album Reviews

The Last Dinner Party were the breakout UK stars of...

Hayley Williams Album Reviews

Hayley Williams is best known as the lead vocalist of...

Wolf Alice Album Reviews

Wolf Alice started in 2010 as an acoustic duo when...

The Go-Go’s Album Reviews

The Go-Go’s emerged from the late 1970s L.A. punk scene...

Able Tasmans Album Reviews

Graeme Humphreys started his musical career in the Whangārei band...

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Read about the discographies of musical acts from the 1960s to the present day. Browse this site's review archives or enjoy these random selections:

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Gob Nation Album Reviews (The Tubs, Joanna Gruesome,  Ex-Vöid et al)

Gob Nation are a South London-based group of musicians who...

Contact

I don’t usually write reviews on request – you might...

Angel Olsen Album Reviews

Singer-songwriter Angel Olsen hails from St. Louis Missouri, where she...

Vanessa Carlton Album Reviews

Vanessa Carlton is best known for the 2002 hit ‘A...

Jeff Buckley Album Reviews

It’s not an overstatement that Jeff Buckley was one of the...
Jeff Buckley Grace

Squid Album Reviews

A crop of young, critically acclaimed post-punk bands emerged in...

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Ten Guitars by Engelbert Humperdinck: Great B-Sides

Arnold Dorsey struggled to break into the music industry until...

10 Best Laura Nyro Songs

Despite writing hit songs in the late 1960s and her...

Billy Joel Albums: Ranked from Worst to Best

I spent my teenage years enamoured by the pop tunes...

11 Best ABBA Songs

Swedish quartet ABBA were massively popular from the mid-1970s to...

10 Best Dire Straits Songs

Dire Straits emerged at the height of punk in the...

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