2005 came the release of ‘All That I Am’, a collaboration of popular artists featuring on almost every track of Santana’s new album. With the well-praised release of Santana ft. Rob Thomas ‘Smooth’ in 1999/2000, maybe Carlos Santana thought that he could sustain this collaborative success in his latest album.

Throughout the years, you may have recognised Santana shredding it up on songs like ‘All the Love in the Universe’ or just cooking some spicy luscious latin ballads like ‘Black Magic Woman’, and think, “Damn, Santana’s a pretty rad dude”.

Well, not anymore. The colloboration effort success didn’t sustain, and the new album flatout stinks. Carlos Santana is one of those lads you’d think is ‘all about the music, man’. He gives off that native latin vibe … plus, he’s old and mexican.
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Imagine the shittest music you’ve ever heard. Now extend that it into a 20 minute song.

Once you’ve done that, you’re about 10% along the way to comprehending how bad ‘Sunn O)))’, a band popular in the doom/drone metal scene and their latest album ‘Black One’ is (the band is referred to as simply ’sunn’, the stupid sun symbol written in characters isn’t read).

I honestly don’t know where to start - The whole album is just a prolonged drone of distortion and random feedback noises. Every song sounds the same - literally. If watching fucking grass grow had a soundtrack, THIS would be it.
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Timbaland. Unless you live under a rock, his name is everywhere in mainstream music, often pre-eminent to the actual artist he produced.

To be honest, I was pretty impressed with his work on Justin Timberlake’s Futuresexx/Lovesounds, so I made the mistake of assuming his own album, “(Timbaland presents) Shock Value” would be of similair calibur.

I deserve to be shot in the nostrils.

Straight of the bat, we’re presented with the douchey gangster ‘Oh, Timbaland’. Continue Reading »