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Last Active 12-28-17 3:22 pm
Joined 03-06-13
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| Kayo Dot Ranked
Spent most of 2018 listening to Kayo Dot, Kate Bush and Gazpacho instead of actual new music. Tell me if my ranking of Kayo Dot is garbage | | 9 |  | Kayo Dot
Gamma Knife
Never really got into this album, the vocals are too far back in the mix and nothing really stuck with me. Feels like a draft of Hubardo that was never fully realized
Best song: Ocellated God
Worst song: Lethe | | 8 |  | Kayo Dot
Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
This is the record I've listened to the least in the list; feels like a follow up to Choirs of the Eye but without the same emotional resonance. I do need to give it more spins, admittedly
Best song: ___On Limpid Form
Worst song: Amaranth the Peddler | | 7 |  | Kayo Dot
Stained Glass
Really like the use of xylophones (or glockenspiels?) in this one
Best song: Stained Glass
Worst song: uh.... Stained Glass? | | 6 |  | Kayo Dot
Coyote
Sp00py record
Best song: Calonyction GIrl
Worst song: Abyss Hinge 1: Sleeping Birds Sighing in Roscolux | | 5 |  | Kayo Dot
Blue Lambency Downward
Perhaps one of the 'lighter' KD records? I really like the use of woodwinds on this one
Best song: The Awkward Wind Wheel
Worst song: The Sow Submits | | 4 |  | Kayo Dot
Plastic House on Base of Sky
To heck with the haters, I really like this new psychedelic / electronic arrangement
Best song: Amalia's Theme
Worst song: Magnetism | | 3 |  | Kayo Dot
Choirs of the Eye
I know it's objectively considered their best, but I never really was taken by Toby's fragile / gentle vocals in this record. Brilliant record though, and The Manifold Curiosity is one of the best songs I've ever heard, but there's something about the two records above this that I love more.
Best song: The Manifold Curiosity
Worst song: Wayfarer | | 2 |  | Kayo Dot
Coffins on Io
Love the moody and spacey atmosphere - and probably my favourite clean Toby vocals
Best song: The Mortality of Doves
Worst song: The Assassination of Adam | | 1 |  | Kayo Dot
Hubardo
Absolutely bonkers record - it's got everything: black metal, jazz fusion, goth rock, chamber music. It's like Choirs of the Eye but even more ambitious
Best song: The Wait of the World
Worst song: Floodgate | |
AnimalsAsSummit
12.21.18 | happy to see phobos at at least 4. my favorite kayo dot album. | NOTINTHEFACE
12.21.18 | I will say that 8 was the hardest KD for me to "understand". Give it time, and I think you'll find it's in the Choirs/maudlin range of brilliance. | Evreaia
12.21.18 | Not agreeing at all, mostly because 8 is one of there best.
3 > 8 > 1 > 7 > 5 > 2 > 9 > 6 > 4 | AnimalsAsSummit
12.21.18 | 8 is definitely up there | osmark86
12.21.18 | Plastic House on Base of Sky and Coffins On IO are both fantastic albums. gotta check the other ones. | Deez
12.21.18 | There isnt a 'worse song' On most of these you fool | Deez
12.21.18 | 3.1.2.8.5.6.7.9.4 | insomniac15
12.21.18 | Curious to hear what direction will the band head into with the new album. | BlazinBlitzer
12.21.18 | "Worst song: Wayfarer"
"Marathon" would like to have a word. | JohnnyoftheWell
12.21.18 | Marathon is sublime, get out of here. Wayfarer is the most predictable song on the album and doesn't hold up as well as the others over time.
8 belongs in the top 3 | TalonsOfFire
12.21.18 | Wayfarer is in the top 5 best Kayo Dot songs, one of the most beautiful things I've heard. Y'all crazy. Marathon is also excellent, well the second half at least.
Choirs is my favorite, then Dowsing, Hubardo, PHoBoS, and Coffins are interchangeable for next best haha. Coyote is definitely their worst, but still good. | Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.21.18 | This is a pretty unexpected ranking tbh, I don't agree but I appreciate | Artuma
12.21.18 | can't say i agree with most of this at all. hubardo being 1 while gamma is the last sticks out as extremely odd | JJKeys
12.21.18 | @insomniac - apparently Toby has said the new album is a cross between Hubardo with PHoBoS synths
@deezer - none of these songs are 'bad', but relatively weak compared to the rest of the album; I prefer Floodgate to anything off of Gamma Knife, say | Doibhin69
12.21.18 | 3 is 1 imo | JJKeys
12.21.18 | That's most people's opinion jej | luci
12.21.18 | Worst song: Wayfarer
delete your account | JJKeys
12.21.18 | No u | JJKeys
05.03.19 | fuCK IT - I got Plastic House on Base of Sky on vinyl and it's fast becoming #2 now | AnimalsAsSummit
05.03.19 | ^right dude, nobody understood that shit when it dropped but if you jam it w/ good equipment its a mindblowing sonic experience. for me, it is their best release. I only hope their next album can come close to it in some way. | TalonsOfFire
05.04.19 | Yea Plastic House is very underrated. I'm really curious what their follow-up will sound like, from the live video footage it reminded me of Hubardo but with more synths |
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