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Nick Mason

Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports

1981

Jazz-Rock

I threw this on without realizing that Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports is a Carla Bley album in disguise. I'm happy it played out that way. Bley is in poppy mode -- whatever that may mean for her -- and that means Fictitious Sports is livelier, wilder and weirder than any Pink Floyd album since the days before Dark Side. It's also funnier, which makes its sharp turns and excesses seem giddy.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Squarepusher

Feed Me Weird Things

June 3, 1996

Drill'n'bass

Squarepusher's debut album is far from his most consistent (not that that's a useful term with this artist), but it does contain some of his absolute best material, as well as perhaps the widest range of emotions on any of his releases. "Tundra" is so devastatingly powerful that I can only listen to it when absolutely necessary, otherwise its impact would be dulled. The fact that this track can exist on the same album as the utterly goofy (but also amazing) "Smedley's Melody" shows how little use Squarepusher has for logic.

- Paul Simpson