How do you rate music? I mean, actually express a rating for music? I have a post brewing on this topic, I think I’ve written about it previously, but the whole “five star” rating thing just doesn’t work for me. Right now I’m adopting a modified Robert Christgau rating system, but expect that to mutate over the course of writing and publishing more ratings.
Today I have two releases that earned a two-star rating, or as Christgau would put it, “likable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well enjoy.” Continue reading “A little metal, a little post-rock: King Woman and Vasudeva”