Well I don't want to offend any of Starostin's big fans, but I honestly cannot stand him. I like him even less than Christgau. Lengthy, emotionally driven rants with almost no effort whatsoever to have a fresh unbiased look at the album. Also, a lot of his reviews are way too influenced by what other critics say about the album, and less about how the album sounds. He's someone that can take about 100 words worth of material and spread it over several pages. Factor in the wacked out rating scale with absurd evaluations on "listenability", "resonance", and "adequacy" and you get a site that's basically unreadable to me. He should have stuck with posting reader comments.