The Wheel


Reviews taken verbatim from my Instagram stories, where I review albums based off of a single listen every morning! Originally, I didn’t write reviews for the albums I listened to, so the first months are awaiting scoring. A bolded album indicates one that has a full write-up.

May ’25
  • How I Do – Res
  • Just Tryin’ ta Live – Devin The Dude
  • Burning from the Inside – Bauhaus
  • Busse Woods – Acid King
March ’25
  • Princesses Nubiennes – Les Nubians
  • Census Designated – Jane Remover
  • Sound Ancestors – Madlib
  • Foxtrot – Genesis
February ’25
  • Dance, No One’s Watching – Ezra Collective
  • Doolittle – Pixies
  • Kaleidoscope Phonetics – Science of Sound
  • Live At The Filmore West – King Curtis
  • Mista Don’t Play: Everythangs Workin – Project Pat
  • Polar AC – Freddie Hubbard
  • Donuts – J Dilla
  • He’s Coming – Roy Ayers Ubiquity
  • untitled unmastered. – Kendrick Lamar
January ’25
  • Voodoo – D’Angelo
  • Saxophone Colossus – Sonny Rollins
  • All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors – All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors
  • Plastic Beach – Gorillaz
  • Club Classics Vol. One – Soul II Soul
  • Avalon – Roxy Music
  • Luv(sic) Hexology – nujabes
  • Amoroso – João Gilberto
  • Tropeau bleu – Cortex
  • GREY Area – Little Simz
March ’24 (12-31)
  • Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco
  • The Stooges – The Stooges
  • Toto IV – Toto
  • Ego Death – The Internet
  • Evil Empire – Rage Against the Machine
  • Ants From Up There – Black Country, New Road
  • The Low End Theory – A Tribe Called Quest
  • The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance
  • Fragile – Yes
  • Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not – Arctic Monkeys
  • The New Abnormal – The Strokes
  • Leftoverture – Kansas
  • In Rainbows – Radiohead

Awaiting Review:

October ’23
  • It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back – Public Enemy
  • Are You Experienced – Jimi Hendrix
  • Presence – Led Zeppelin
  • Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
  • Paranoid – Black Sabbath
  • Thriller – Michael Jackson
November ’23
  • Metallica – Metallica
  • That’s The Way of The World – Earth Wind & Fire
  • Dry – PJ Harvey
  • Nevermind – Nirvana
  • Cowboy Bebop – SEATBELTS
  • Moving Pictures – Rush
  • OK Computer – Radiohead
  • Double Nickels on the Dime – Minutemen
  • Led Zeppelin III – Led Zeppelin
  • Dr. Feelgood – Mötley Crüe
  • Me Against the World – 2Pac
  • The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – David Bowie
  • Regatta De Blanc – The Police
  • Surrealistic Pillow – Jefferson Airplane
  • Spectres – Blue Öyster Cult
  • The Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
  • Head Hunters – Herbie Hancock
  • Sleep’s Holy Mountain – Sleep
December ’23
  • Van Halen – Van Halen
  • Appetite For Destruction – Guns n’ Roses
  • Innervisions – Stevie Wonder
  • Ready to Die – Notorious B.I.G.
  • Debut – Björk
  • Master of Puppets – Metallica
  • Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
  • Little Queen – Heart
  • The Pretenders – The Pretenders
  • London Calling – The Clash
January ’24
  • Kid A – Radiohead
  • Abbey Road – The Beatles
  • Heavy Weather – Weather Report
  • Time Out – Dave Brubeck Quartet
  • Catch a Fire – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  • Brilliant Corners – Thelonious Monk
  • Ghost in The Machine – The Police
  • Baduizm – Erykah Baduh
  • Illmatic – Nas
  • Candy-O – The Cars
  • To Pimp A Butterfly – Kendrick Lamar
  • Rise Robots Rise – Rise Robots Rise
  • Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
February ’24
  • Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine
  • Something Else – Cannonball Adderley
  • Ace of Spades – Motörhead
  • Back in Black – AC/DC
  • I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You – Aretha Franklin
  • The Blueprint – Jay-Z
  • Stanktonia – Outkast
  • In Utero – Nirvana
  • Madvillainy – Madvillain
  • Zenyatta Mondatta – The Police
  • Straight Outta Compton – N.W.A.
  • Ride The Lightning – Metallica
  • Toxicity – System of A Down
  • Talking Book – Stevie Wonder
March ’24 (1-11)
  • Dirt – Alice in Chains
  • Paul’s Boutique – Beastie Boys
  • The College Dropout – Kanye West
  • The Money Store – Death Grips
  • Electric Ladyland – Jimi Hendrix
  • Love Deluxe – Sade
  • It Was Written – Nas