Calvin JohnsonBest Calvin Johnson Albums Ranked
7.1
Avg Score
4
Opinions
3
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 4 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Calvin Johnson's catalog across 3 albums from 4 opinions, with an overall average of 7.1/10. The top-rated Calvin Johnson album is A Wonderful Beast (2018) with a 7.4/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by What Was Me and Gallows Wine. The discography on Wavelength spans 2002 to 2023.
A Wonderful Beast
“With help from the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney and erstwhile pop star Michelle Branch, the DIY icon finds new ways to tease out light and dark, allure and anxiety with his key-ignoring baritone.”
A Wonderful Beast
“The idea that rock and roll being dead means nothing to Calvin Johnson – ‘A Wonderful Beast’ is an exploration of sound that brazenly fuses myriad facets of rock’s history. Working closely with producer Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) and chief engineer Marc Whitmore, their aim was to test the resilience of such time-honoured materials as the electric guitar, modular synthesizer and trap drum kit,”
What Was Me
“When you first hear this album, you'll be transported into the Martin Sheen role in *Apocalypse Calvin*, surrounded by affable brass and a CIA spook at a meeting so classified it doesn't even exist. A young Harrison Ford will be playing this album's a capella paean to dispassionate mobility, "Nothing to Hold Us Here," on a reel-to-reel, sweating and dreaming of making out with Kate Capshaw years l”
Gallows Wine
“Following the blues influences of his last solo album, the K Records founder’s new record offers a restless pastiche of primitive rock’n’roll, rockabilly, cowpoke ditties, and living-room dub.”
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