Mates of StateBest Mates of State Albums Ranked
6.9
Avg Score
10
Opinions
7
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 10 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Mates of State's catalog across 7 albums from 10 opinions, with an overall average of 6.9/10. The top-rated Mates of State album is Bring It Back (2006) with a 7.9/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by My Solo Project and Team Boo. The discography on Wavelength spans 1999 to 2011.
Bring It Back
“Organ-and-drums duo gingerly lift the moratorium on six-strings and explore a more varied sonic palette, resulting in their best album to date.”
My Solo Project
“So, I was talking to the indie rock fanatics at school recently about good live shows, and I namedropped a few that I knew they'd recognize to bring them into my world of general agreement. Then, to finally win them over, I said, "I've heard that the Mates of State are great live." Bam! I'd dropped a big one on them: an obscure, somewhat local band they'd never heard of, that they were sure to lov”
Team Boo
“In the interest of giving the marriage-band Mates of State a different review for once, the following things will not be discussed: love, the love-gaze, relationships as metaphors for music, music as metaphor for relationships, and so on. This restriction is not to deny that Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel aren't adorable (stomach-crampingly so, actually), or that they don't consciously play off the”
Mountaintops (Bonus Track Version)
“After the misstep of 2008's Re-Arrange Us, the husband-and-wife duo Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner return to form, while offering the first of their records to grapple with the everyday tribulations and banality of spending your entire adult life in a band.”
Re-arrange Us
“Far from the runaway-mine-car frenzy that defined some of their early work, the husband-and-wife duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel opt for slower tempos, multi-instrumental arrangements, and overdubbed harmonies on their fifth full-length.”
Our Constant Concern
“Here's a little known fact: rock critics, like physicists, biologists, and food scientists, are perennially seeking theories to institute order upon the chaotic world around them. Every musical scribe aspires to create something as elegant as Scott Copperwood's historic *The Inevitability of the Concept Album* or Patrick Reilly's famous *Cleavage + Low Neckline = HUGE Country Music Sales* study. T”
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