Above: John Lee Hooker wondering where all these guys with beards came from

WAS SUPER DOWN:

John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat – Hooker ‘n Heat (1971)
Leather Rats – No Live ‘Til Leather ‘98 (2021)
Lorde – Solar Power (2021)
Pendant – To All Sides They Will Stretch Out Their Hands (2021) review
The Radio Dept. – Pet Grief (2006)
Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8 (2021)

WAS DOWN:

—-__—___ – The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid (2021)
Baby Dee – Regifted Light (2010)
Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man (1988)
Coil – The Ape of Naples (2005)
Coil – Love’s Secret Domain (1990)
Deafheaven – Infinite Granite (2021)
Jan Jelinek – The Raw and the Cooked (2021)
Little Simz – Gray Area (2019)
Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (2021)
Nathan Salsburg – Psalms (2021)
Shackleton – Departing Like Rivers (2021) review
Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies (1992)

WAS OK:

Nick Zanca – Cacerolazo (2021)

DIDN’T LIKE:

Kacey Musgraves – Star Crossed (2021)