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4.5 superb
Animal Collective Feels
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Bjork Homogenic
Bjork Greatest Hits
Cocteau Twins Treasure
Cocteau Twins The Pink Opaque
a fantastic compilation, much more flawless and hard-to-argue-with tracklisting than "Stars and
Topsoil" that recently got a much deserved - and from what I've heard a well executed - remaster.
I really wouldn't change a thing here, things start really solid with the first tracks which
include the rare "Milimillenary" - a very good song - but the real magic starts when "Hitherto"
flows into the classic "Pearly Dewdrops' Drops". both this and another stand-out "Aikea-Guinea"
are to be found here (imo) in their best versions, the latter having a fantastic wall of sound
that the video version lacks. next is easily one of the Twins' best tracks "Lorelei" and the way
"Pepper Tree" 's ticking clock blasts into another CT's top 5 track "Mussette and Drums" is
somehow even better than on "Head Over Heels". in short - easily one of my fave CT releases and
one of the rare cases of a compilation fantastically done.
Kate Bush The Whole Story
Leftfield Leftism
Lycia The Burning Circle and Then Dust
Massive Attack Collected
Portishead Dummy
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead OK Computer
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun
Sigur Ros ( )
Sigur Ros Takk...
Sigur Ros Heima (DVD)
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline
The Cinematic Orchestra Every Day

4.0 excellent
Animal Collective Sung Tongs
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Banco de Gaia Big Men Cry
Beach House Beach House
Beach House Devotion
Beach House Teen Dream
Bjork Vespertine
Bjork Debut
Bjork Drawing Restraint 9
Bjork Live at the Royal Opera House [DVD]
Bjork Vulnicura Live
actually some of the tracks are easily better here than on Vulnicura. the second half of "Family" with its amazing drones is especially ecstatic, and while "Mouth Mantra" has some even better live versions, it's pretty kickass here as well. "Wanderlust", "All Neon Like" or "Come To Me" are all great older reworks as well - as a whole this is imo much more convincing than Biophilia Live.
Burial Burial
Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll
Cocteau Twins Victorialand
Cocteau Twins Milk and Kisses
Cocteau Twins Love's Easy Tears
Flying Lotus Los Angeles
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact
Goldfrapp Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp Tales Of Us
Grimes Visions
High Places High Places
Janelle Monae The Electric Lady
Joanna Newsom Ys
Julianna Barwick Florine
Julianna Barwick The Magic Place
Julianna Barwick Sanguine
Kate Bush Aerial
Lamb What Sound
Little Dragon Machine Dreams
Little Dragon Nabuma Rubberband
Lycia Cold
Lykke Li I Never Learn
M.I.A. Arular
M.I.A. Kala
Massive Attack Mezzanine
Massive Attack 100th Window
Massive Attack Blue Lines
Matmos The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
Matmos The Civil War
mum Summer Make Good
mum Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK
Portishead Third
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead In Rainbows
Robyn Body Talk Pt. 1
Sigur Ros Inni
Telepathe Dance Mother
The Cinematic Orchestra Motion
The Dead Texan The Dead Texan
The Knife Silent Shout
The Orb Orbus Terrarum
The Orb Orblivion
TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain
TV on the Radio Dear Science

3.5 great
Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
Ariana Grande Love Me Harder
Ariana Grande Thank U, Next
Asobi Seksu Hush
Asobi Seksu Fluorescence
Banco de Gaia Last Train To Lhasa
Banco de Gaia Igizeh
Beach House Bloom
Beyonce 4
Beyonce Beyonce
Bjork Post
Bjork Medulla
Bjork Volta
Bjork Vulnicura
Bonobo Black Sands
Burial Untrue
Caribou Swim
CocoRosie La Maison De Mon Reve
CocoRosie Noah's Ark
CocoRosie Grey Oceans
Cocteau Twins Four-Calendar Cafe
Cocteau Twins Echoes in a Shallow Bay
Cocteau Twins BBC Sessions
Daft Punk Random Access Memories
Ellie Goulding Halcyon Days
Florence and the Machine Lungs
Florence and the Machine Ceremonials
Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra.
Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna
Goldfrapp Black Cherry
Goldfrapp Supernature
Goldfrapp Seventh Tree
Goldfrapp Head First
Grimes Art Angels
High Places 03/07 - 09/07
Hikaru Utada Ultra Blue
Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself
Imogen Heap Ellipse
Julianna Barwick Nepenthe
Julianna Barwick Will
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow
Lady Gaga The Fame Monster
Lamb Between Darkness And Wonder
Lana Del Rey Honeymoon
Lorde Pure Heroine
Lorde Melodrama
Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes
M.I.A. Matangi
Madonna Ray of Light
Madonna Confessions on a Dancefloor
Matmos A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
Matmos Supreme Balloon
Matmos The West
mum Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Radiohead The King of Limbs
Robyn Body Talk
Royksopp The Understanding
Royksopp Junior
Sia 1000 Forms Of Fear
Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim
Sigur Ros Kveikur
The Orb Okie Dokie It's The Orb on Kompakt
TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light
White Hinterland Kairos
pretty underrated here, was one of my fave releases that year. Moon Jam or Huron are easy highlights, but it's a pretty solid record through and through .

3.0 good
Adele 21
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind
Animal Collective Centipede Hz
Ariana Grande My Everything
Banco de Gaia You Are Here
Banco de Gaia Farewell Ferengistan
Beach House Zebra EP
Beach House Depression Cherry
Beyonce Lemonade
Bjork Biophilia
Bjork Voltaic
Bjork Biophilia Live
Caribou Our Love
CocoRosie Tales of a Grass Widow
Ellie Goulding Lights
Ellie Goulding Halcyon
High Places High Places vs. Mankind
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid
Kanye West Yeezus
Lady Gaga Born This Way
Lady Gaga Artpop
Lamb 5
Lamb Butterfly Effect
Lana Del Rey Born to Die
Lana Del Rey Born To Die (The Paradise Edition)
Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Madonna American Life
Massive Attack Heligoland
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
Robyn Robyn
Robyn Body Talk Pt. 2
Sigur Ros Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do
Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust
The Cinematic Orchestra Man With A Movie Camera
The Orb Cydonia

2.5 average
Aphex Twin Drukqs
Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman
Ariana Grande Sweetener
Banco de Gaia Apollo
Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars
Bjork Vulnicura Strings
Bonobo The North Borders
Cocteau Twins Stars and Topsoil: A Collection (1982-1990)
I'm kinda anti this release because there are just too many best CT moments missing (Mussette and Drums, Frou Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires, Ivo, Those Eyes That Mouth..) while other tracks hardly rank among their best (Blind Dumb Deaf). in short, while The Pink Opaque was a wonderfully picked and sorted compilation (with still the best versions of some of their classics), this one leaves me pretty divided.
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE
High Places Original Colors
Imogen Heap I Megaphone
Imogen Heap Sparks
Kanye West The Life of Pablo
Lamb Backspace Unwind
Lana Del Rey Lust For Life
Madonna Rebel Heart
mum Smilewound
Rihanna Rated R
Rihanna Loud
Rihanna ANTI
Sia This Is Acting
Sigur Ros Valtari
The Cinematic Orchestra Ma Fleur
The Orb The Dream

2.0 poor
Ellie Goulding Delirium
awful, and I actually liked where she was heading before - Halcyon Days is a surprisingly solid
re-release. Army's a clear higlight, most of the other stuff is delete-worthy. Love Me Like You Do
is generic as hell, too.
Madonna MDNA
Rihanna Talk That Talk
Rihanna Unapologetic
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