Melt-BananaBest Melt-Banana Albums Ranked

Fetch

fantano

9.0

“After a short studio album hiatus, Japan's Melt-Banana is back with their most exciting, dynamic, joyous, and detailed album to date. I actually think it's their best!”

Scratch or Stitch

pitchfork

8.2

“As the subway pulls into Shibuya on the Yamanote Line in Tokyo, nothing can prepare you for the sensory onslaught that awaits. Leaving the station via the Hachiko exit reveals a piercing overload of blinking neon, tennis court-sized media screens, and a relentless and chaotic surge of humanity through the streets that spiral dizzyingly off into the horizon. As a city gripped by paroxysms of furiou”

Fetch

pitchfork

7.8

“After a six-year break from making studio albums, Melt-Banana's new collection finds the group at their grinding, dissonant mid-90s prime. fetch is a bleeding-edge reiteration of the Japanese noise rock band's fractured and manicured chaos.”

Cell-Scape

pitchfork

7.5

“Going on five studio records, Melt Banana are at a crossroads. Over the past decade (yes, the band is older than your cousin in the 3rd grade), they've managed to practically redefine hardcore punk while never really breaking free from their own self-created sound universe. The staggering consistency displayed in their run of releases is unmatched, even among their more intense countrymen Boredoms”

Teeny Shiny

pitchfork

7.1

“"Drum-n-bass is just fast techno. Flip a switch, twiddle a knob, 33 to 45, instant D&B.;" Tell this to a junglist, and he'll bite a chunk out of your arm. Or, tell a punk that he's just listening to sped-up garage rock, or a hardcore devotee that his music is just even faster punk, and you'll be met with a similar response. It's both temptingly simple and degrading to these genres to suggest that”

3+5

fantano

6.0

“A disappointingly average return from M-B.”