BarcelonaBest Barcelona Albums Ranked

Zero-One-Infinity (Expanded Edition)

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6.7

“So, as it turns out, there are different degrees of retro. In her 1964 essay, "Notes on Camp," Susan Sontag pretty much laid the floor plan for the culture industry to make profitable factory-issue kitsch. You can hear the jingle of change today as it's spewed out in the form of 1-800-COLLECT commercials, hideous neon Old Navy vests and the shamelessness of constant movies being remade. And then t”

simon BASIC

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6.6

“Part of what made new wave so appealing-- at least, to those of us who were middle schoolers at the time-- was its earnestness. Of course, this is exactly the quality that makes most of it all but unlistenable 15 years later. So many of those bands were just so fucking serious about what they were doing, about their music and themselves. They didn't let up for a second. They just pouted away on 12”

Transhuman Revolution

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6.3

“Darla Records' James Agren had to put down his vegan tofu wrap just to make sure he'd read the email right. Barcelona were breaking up? What a bummer. Not only were they one of the main bands on the pulCec imprint, they'd basically written Darla's website. Nobody else had a sound quite like theirs-- some people had taken to calling it "programmer pop," what with the keyboard melodies and all the r”