Why the heck does Silent Shout not yet have a Metascore? I think it's the best thing to come out yet this year, and I think it's been reviews at enough places.

Also, after listening to it again yesterday, Nathan Fake's album, Drowning In A Sea of Love, is my second favorite album this year. It's a bit more obscure, but I know that several people around here love it and I hope it gets listed on Metacritic before the year's over.

I should also mention Centro-matic's Fort Recovery, which is also pretty amazing, though I'm not sure if it got great reviews or not.

Anybody else know of any 2006 albums that should be on Metacritic but aren't?

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Why the heck does Silent Shout not yet have a Metascore? I think it's the best thing to come out yet this year, and I think it's been reviews at enough places.

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Anybody else know of any 2006 albums that should be on Metacritic but aren't?

I assume that METACRITIC is waiting for the United States release of Silent Shout, which I think is this month, to assign it a score.

But there doesn't seem to be any consistency on this point. Art Brut's Bang! Bang! Rock 'N Roll received a Metascore last year, long before it's United States release. Now that it has been released here, the album is again listed among METACRITIC's New Music Releases.

I'd like to see a metascore for:

Matt Costa - Songs We Sing
Dirty On Purpose - Hallelujah Sirens
Irving - Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers
Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island
The Lashes - Get It
The Lovely Feathers - Hind Hind Legs
Persephone's Bees - Notes From The Underworld
She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge
The Sword - Age of Winters
Trespassers William - Having

And other stuff, too.

Anathallo - Floating World
Ahleuchatistas - What You Will
Dysrhythmia - Barriers and Passages

Reviews on these, and other records listed in this thread, may not be able to be found right now or at all, so... que sera sera.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Why the heck does Silent Shout not yet have a Metascore? I think it's the best thing to come out yet this year, and I think it's been reviews at enough places.

Also, after listening to it again yesterday, Nathan Fake's album, Drowning In A Sea of Love, is my second favorite album this year. It's a bit more obscure, but I know that several people around here love it and I hope it gets listed on Metacritic before the year's over.

I should also mention Centro-matic's Fort Recovery, which is also pretty amazing, though I'm not sure if it got great reviews or not.

Anybody else know of any 2006 albums that should be on Metacritic but aren't?

My suggestion would have been Centro-Matic's Fort Recovery but you took it right out of my mouth. I find it odd that there is no mention of this album/band here at Metacritic. Fort Recovery is my fave album of the year. I think most people here would be surprised by Fort Recovery. It's an album that would appeal to a broad range of listening ears.

Pitchforkmedia gave it an 8.1 and as I've said before Patterson Hood of the Drive By Truckers calls Fort Recovery the best album of this decade.A Will Johnson (singer for Centro-Matic) interview from Cokemachineglow

Here is what Patterson Hood said about Fort Recovery;

Centro-matic's music comes on like a sound from a distant dream, something new, yet unmistakably familiar. Clear images adding up to something a little vague, but in such a comforting way. Once as a child, I watched part one of some two-part children's adventure (NBC's Wonderful World of Disney circa 1972, no doubt) and that night dreamt the next week's conclusion verbatim. No one ever believed me and I still don't blame them, not sure I believe it myself, but I know it happened. That's what Centro-matic is like to me. Their music is somehow like something I heard in my head as a child, yet I know I didn't. I find myself singing along with their songs the first time I hear them. They're the best live band in America and know how to make great records. Bunches of them (they're prolific as hell) yet some how they keep getting better. All of this while playing an exhausting 150 shows a year.

At any rate, Fort Recovery is my favorite Centro-matic album. My favorite album by my favorite band. That's a beautiful thing that I hope to never outgrow. One of life's pleasures that I look forward to passing on to my kids. When I was in fifth grade my favorite band was Pink Floyd and my favorite album was Dark Side of the Moon, at fifteen it was Bruce Springsteen and Darkness on the Edge of Town. At one point The Replacements Tim held that position. Big Star's Radio City hovers around there somewhere and lord knows I love plenty of Neil Young and Bob Dylan records. If I could go back in time, The Stooges Fun House and Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti would all make some mystical list.

Centro-matic is my favorite band that is still vital and intact. All four of them together for ten years now. Their brand new album is their best yet. My un-mastered CD copy is my favorite album of 2006 and honestly my favorite new album of the past five years. I have listened to it several times a day for three weeks straight and like those great masterpieces of old I still find new things to love at every listen.

Centro-matic's Fort Recovery is a masterpiece, and I don't use that word often.

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There a lot, but I'd like to see Cadence Weapon reviews and Thee More Shallow's.

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Originally posted by pak:
There a lot, but I'd like to see Cadence Weapon reviews and Thee More Shallow's.

Well, they don't do EP's, so Monkey vs Shark isn't gonna happen.

I was talking more about "More Deep Cuts" which was one my favorite albums of last year, and I had hoped it would've gotten more widespread coverage.

Yeah, I would've loved to see it here too. It was my #1 album from 2005 and one of my favorite albums of the last 5 years. But it's not gonna happen for two reasons: it's too obscure and Metacritic doesn't do albums retroactively, at least not that I'm aware of. Definiteky agree with you though on More Deep Cuts. Incredible album.

If they add movies from the past (Superman, Godfather), why not add CD's that were over-looked from the previous year? The main reason, I think, is the lack of major media picking up on it. Cokemachineglow is the only pretty big publication I can think of off the top of my head that reviewed it. It's a shame, but I guess good ol' word of mouth will have to do for the blokes in Thee More Shallows.

What is METACRITIC's criteria for deciding whether to issue a METASCORE for a given album? For instance, I've heard good things about Scritti Politti's new album,

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White Bread, Black Beer.

I assume it will be released in the United States this year (if not in the immediate future), but I don't even see it on METACRITIC's Upcoming Releases list. I know it isn't a major release, but it is from a (formally) well-known artist, it appears to be a well-regarded album, and it is certainly as prominent as some of the other albums that do appear on the Upcoming Releases list. So how does METACRITIC decide which albums to consider?

I guess you've got to draw the line somewhere. But metacritic doesn't seem to evaluate many compilation albums ex: Old 97s hit by a train. However, they will compile live album reviews ex: Wilco's kicking Television (which is really a compilation album played live)

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Originally posted by rb:
I guess you've got to draw the line somewhere. But metacritic doesn't seem to evaluate many compilation albums ex: Old 97s hit by a train. However, they will compile live album reviews ex: Wilco's kicking Television (which is really a compilation album played live)

I think the logic is that, while compilation records are merely (usually) old versions of past tracks, live records can bring whole new aspects to the performance of older songs. And a reissue of an older album (usually with improved sound and bonus tracks) is also often fair game. But I have been puzzled by Metacritic's inclusion of some reissues on their year-end high score lists(Talking Heads' The Name of this Band is the #4 higest rated of 2004 after 11 reviews) but not others (the 2004 reissue of London Calling has 12 reviews and a PERFECT metascore of 100 but does not rank for 2004 or any year). If you're going to consider the Heads reissue as one of the best releases of 2004, I don't see why the massively expanded Clash record can't be the same.

Personal Preference.

London Calling's expansion was demos and outtakes of songs or portions of songs that ended up on the original release. The Name of This Band Is... tacked on several live versions of songs not originally part of the '82 album.

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Originally posted by m.leland:
London Calling's expansion was demos and outtakes of songs or portions of songs that ended up on the original release. The Name of This Band Is... tacked on several live versions of songs not originally part of the '82 album.

I still don't see the difference. How is adding 30 minutes of previously unreleased live tracks different from adding a whole disc's worth of demos, doodles, and other oddities? Several of the tracks on the Clash bonus disc were, in fact, unreleased. Others were just versions of the tracks on the album, true enough, but what if they were substantially different and/or relevatory?

I'm not trying to shit on the Heads reissue, but I'm curious why it gets a year-end high score and another reissue doesn't.

The Knife's "Silent Shout" just came out in the U.S., finally -- other people have mentioned it here.

Get it on, boys.

Also:

Don Caballero - World Class Listening Problem
The Sword - Age of Winters (has also been mentioned before)
Anathallo - Floating World (I'll keep at this)

Yeah...

Why isn't Silent Shout on here??

It wasn't pulled from the shelves or something, was it?!?

Oh, and I think these should be on Metacritic:

"The Cold Vein" ~ Cannibal Ox
"Endless Summer" ~ Fennesz
"The Glow, pt. 2" ~ The Microphones
"Vocalcity" ~ Luomo
"Fantastic Damage" ~ El-P