Methyl EthelBest Methyl Ethel Albums Ranked
6.4
Avg Score
9
Opinions
4
Albums
5
Reviewers
Summary from 9 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Methyl Ethel's catalog across 4 albums from 9 opinions, with an overall average of 6.4/10. The top-rated Methyl Ethel album is Everything Is Forgotten (2017) with a 7.0/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Triage and Oh Inhuman Spectacle. The discography on Wavelength spans 2016 to 2022.
Triage
“Methyl Ethel return with their finest work yet”
Everything Is Forgotten
“Barely nine months after the release of his debut album, the prodigious Australian Jake Webb returns, and while last year’s ‘Oh Inhuman Spectacle’ was epic in ambition but patchy in nature, Webb has stepped up a gear with this second record. The melody-soaked, funky bassline and falsetto vocals of opener ‘Drink Wine’ feels like throwing open casement windows and letting in a flood of sunshine, whi”
Triage
“Methyl Ethel are named for one element in particular, a colorless, aromatic organic compound used in industrial solvents. But a whole bunch of elements—all of them, to be exact—find their way onto the successful Aussie band’s third record. Searing electric chords permeate the sparkling solution that is “All The Elements,” one of the best songs on the album, a winding response to a pesky, poking su”
Oh Inhuman Spectacle
“Perth's Methyl Ethel makes dream-pop for insomniacs—shadowy, nocturnal music whose surface shimmer barely conceals the fidgety, restless soul lurking underneath.”
Triage
“When dissecting Methyl Ethel‘s last release, 2017’s ‘Everything Is Forgotten‘, we (perhaps rather unfairly) labelled them just another “psychedelic rock band from Perth” who were struggling to to escape from the shadow of the nation’s exports like Tame Impala. Thankfully, ‘Triage’, the band’s third album is in no danger of fulfilling that prophecy – it’s quite like nothing we’ve heard from them be”
Triage
“This third record from Methyl Ethel is apparently the first that was intended “to be heard”, by which frontman and principal songwriter Jake Webb presumably means that it was intended for a wider audience than just former bandmates and friends within Perth’s music scene (their first two albums chronicled his uneasy relationship with both in some detail). ‘Triage’ is the trio’s most accessible work”
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