John Carroll KirbyBest John Carroll Kirby Albums Ranked
5.7
Avg Score
5
Opinions
4
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 5 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated John Carroll Kirby's catalog across 4 albums from 5 opinions, with an overall average of 5.7/10. The top-rated John Carroll Kirby album is Blowout (2023) with a 7.1/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Septet and My Garden. The discography on Wavelength spans 2020 to 2023.
Blowout
“The latest album from this L.A. session player to the stars reveals him to be a fascinatingly expressive keyboardist who doesn’t take himself too seriously.”
My Garden
“The Los Angeles pianist, a collaborator of Solange and Frank Ocean, sinks back into spare soul-jazz and meditative new age, occupying a middle ground between deep and easy listening.”
My Garden
“John Carroll Kirby is one of those L.A. studio background lurkers whose contributions to mega-hyped albums sneak by unnoticed amid all the hullabaloo generated by the star attraction. When he’s not earning composition and production credits on records by the likes of Solange, Frank Ocean and The Avalanches, however, Kirby makes his own albums of curious little instrumental vignettes, all gently sl”
Septet
““Muzak” hasn’t always been a derogatory term. Indeed, when it first emerged in 1950s America, the background music then created in bulk by the Muzak Holdings Company represented all that was hopeful and utopian about post-war life in the USA, with jaunty brass, decadent strings and tinkling marimba magically everpresent, rounding off the edges of a life of guiltless consumerism, be that at the mal”
My Garden
“Collaborative guru John Carroll Kirby doesn't quite match his past on solo outing My Garden”
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