The Daily Spin, December 3
The Royal Concept | Goldrushed
Welcome back to the Daily Spin, the series in which I review 365 albums during 2023.
Each album will be given a rating on a scale from 0 to 10. You can look at the entire set here. Additionally, you can check out a list of my favorite songs from each album right here.
Album: Goldrushed (2013)
Artist: The Royal Concept
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If this album were a hair cleaner, I think it would have the juice to potentially shine as a high eight or even a low nine.
I’ll put it this way - I listened to this album nearly four times through while working on other stuff without even realizing that it was my fourth trip through until I was like “oh wait, I’ve heard this a few times now”. Few albums manage that level of comfortable listenability, and it’s arguably even more impressive given that this is FIFA-style rock music, electronica dashed through guitar-laden anthems, almost poppy in style but never enough to garner much but fringe radio play.
It’s to their detriment, though - a lot of this just becomes noise after a while, and though the best tracks - ‘In The End’ would unironically be among the top tracks in my listening history if it were on Spotify prior to 2021 - really stand out, too much of tends to slide back into nothingness, the sort of music that leaves you wondering… well, what the point of it was. The energy is good enough to stave this feeling off for most of the record, but after a while it becomes a looming problem too large to ignore.
Rating: 8.2/10
Best Tracks: In The End; D-D-Dance; World On Fire
Worst Tracks: Cabin Down Below