Frog EyesBest Frog Eyes Albums Ranked

The Bloody Hand

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8.6

“Absolutely Kosher presents greatly expanded versions of two albums from Carey Mercer's criminally underrated indie rock band.”

Tears of the Valedictorian

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8.5

“More namechecked than heard, Carey Mercer, Spencer Krug, and the rest of this B.C. band follow a series of small-scale studies with one of their best full-lengths to date.”

Violet Psalms

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8.0

“It’s fitting that Frog Eyes intends for Violet Psalms to be their last album: it sounds like the end of the world. The Canadian band’s eighth LP burns with an apocalyptic intensity that feels final and definitive, like some dire prophecy has come to pass. The group has long worked in a sinister vein, though rarely with such sharp-edged precision. These 10 songs are a study in musical dynamics, wi”

Violet Psalms

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7.7

“On what the band has said is its final album, Frog Eyes sound galvanized by the prospect of bowing out, resulting in their strongest record in years.”

Ego Scriptor

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7.7

“O, the four-track. Simultaneously the most naively underrated and clumsily misused tool in all music (besides maybe the euphonium), it inhabits a special place in every musician's heart. It's where many of us laid our first bedroom opuses to tape, songs unmolested by Audio Units Parametric EQ'ing or other digital affectations. It's also a device that many (wrongly) associate with bad songs: Just b”

The Folded Palm

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7.5

“In a year in which Frog Eyes leader Casey Mercer has already delivered a solo record and his band's acoustic LP, Ego Scriptor, the Canadian foursome have now harnessed the power of their live show and delivered their most anarchic statement to date.”