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Ian King

Ian King’s album reviews that count toward B-Side Breakdowns: 5 reviews, going back to 2015, each next to the album’s Breakdown.

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What they review

  • Indie & Alternative 60%
  • R&B & Soul 20%
  • Rock 20%

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Their favorites

  1. Godspeed You! Black EmperorAsunder, Sweet and Other Distress 90 PopMatters
  2. Blonde RedheadMelody of Certain Damaged Lemons 85 Under the Radar
  3. IdlesBrutalism 80 PopMatters
  4. Kali UchisSincerely 70 The Line of Best Fit
  5. The Jesus and Mary ChainDamage and Joy 60 PopMatters

Every review

Outlet
Blonde RedheadMelody of Certain Damaged Lemons“Sometimes it’s the little adjustments that make the biggest differences. Twenty years on, it still isn’t easy to pin down a major change in Blonde Redhead on their fifth album,…”Under the Radar via Wikipedia85 8.5/10742020
The Jesus and Mary ChainDamage and Joy“Jim Reid is absolutely right to assert that to make a good record like Damage and Joy “in your 50s, the way we are… is a minor miracle". In another…”PopMatters via Wikipedia60 6/10702017
Kali UchisSincerely“The Canadian creep-folkers continue to raise their crooked bar.”The Line of Best Fit70 7/10792017
IdlesBrutalism“The other day on his BBC Radio 6 program, mainstay DJ Steve Lamacq had Bristol band Idles in the studio, and at the end of the interview, he remarked that”PopMatters via Wikipedia80 8/10862017
Godspeed You! Black EmperorAsunder, Sweet and Other Distress“If Godspeed You! Black Emperor hadn’t come along in the back half of the '90s when they did, some other assemblage of heavy hearted anarcho-romantics would”PopMatters90 9/10852015

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