CastanetsBest Castanets Albums Ranked
6.9
Avg Score
5
Opinions
6
Albums
1
Reviewer
Summary from 5 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Castanets's catalog across 6 albums from 5 opinions, with an overall average of 6.9/10. The top-rated Castanets album is Cathedral (2004) with a 8.5/10 average from 1 rating, followed by First Light's Freeze and In the Vines. The discography on Wavelength spans 2004 to 2014.
Cathedral
“Evoking everything from prime Black Heart Procession and Will Oldham to The Decemberists, vintage Luna and Phil Ochs, San Diego-based Castanets' murky, swamp-funeral laments are garnering acclaim from all sides: Sufjan Stevens sang their praises in his Pitchfork interview, while members of Pinback, Rocket from the Crypt, Tristeza, and Black Heart Procession have lent their talents to the band's aching creak and pop. The first of this year's great fall albums.”
First Light's Freeze
“Raymond Raposa picks up where he left off, stringing together disembodied fragments of gothic Americana with brief, freaky interludes.”
Texas Rose, The Thaw and the Beasts
“Raymond Raposa's ramshackle folk and pitch-dark music would sound at home in either a Village coffee shop or a roadhouse.”
In the Vines
“Ray Raposa's gothic Americana remains obsessed with death and departure and inevitability on his latest Asthmatic Kitty release.”
Decimation Blues
“After his Castanets project vanished off the map in 2009, Raymond Raposa brings the experimental folk project back for another go-round. Decimation Blues is a fragmented album that trends toward the same path he's already spent five albums exploring.”
City of Refuge
“For City of Refuge, Castanets' Raymond Raposa decamped, alone, to a tiny desert outpost in Nevada, away from Brooklyn, away from social interaction. The resulting album is appropriately barren and full of spirits. Sufjan Stevens and Jana Hunter guest.”
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