FreakwaterBest Freakwater Albums Ranked
7.5
Avg Score
6
Opinions
4
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 6 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Freakwater's catalog across 4 albums from 6 opinions, with an overall average of 7.5/10. The top-rated Freakwater album is Scheherazade (2016) with a 7.9/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Old Paint and Thinking of You. The discography on Wavelength spans 1995 to 2016.
Old Paint
“Originally formed as a cover band/side-project by longtime friends (and Louisville punk scene veterans) Catherine Ann Irwin and Janet Beveridge Bean, Freakwater was renowned for its strict adherence to bare-bones Appalachian musical forms. Their first couple of releases helped jumpstart the alt-country movement in the early 90s, boasting little more than the cheaply recorded acoustic guitars and v”
Scheherazade
“Janet Beveridge Bean and Catherine Irwin have been recording and performing as Freakwater for nearly 30 years. They were some of the first musicians to explicitly marry the bluegrass aesthetic with the punk rock ethos. Their songs embrace the American working class aesthetic with no smirk of irony, but without the blind worship of the recent convert, either. They're the brainy, down-to-earth great”
Scheherazade
“The darkly austere alt-country group Freakwater has kept their simple, gothic sound consistent through the years, but on their eighth album they overhaul it almost completely. It's their most cinematic album yet, with the music functioning almost as a soundtrack to their short, violent songs.”
Thinking of You
“Veteran Thrill Jockey duo get help from current or former members of Califone and Eleventh Dream Day on their latest LP.”
End Time
“By all rights, when a critical assessment of this musical decade is made, the influence of country on its more popular cousin, rock, will have to be reckoned with. Sure, country- rock rambled about long before the '90s first messed its pants, and certainly the Eagles enjoyed more fame and amassed a greater fortune than any of their '90s counterparts. However, the vigor and sincerity with which th”
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