Nils FrahmBest Nils Frahm Albums Ranked

Late Night Tales: Nils Frahm

thelineofbestfit

8.5

“An evening with Nils Frahm: boundary-pushing Berliner releases Late Night Tales LP”

Music for the Motion Picture Victoria

thelineofbestfit

8.5

“Nils Frahm's first film score is yet another rich, satisfying triumph”

Empty

loudandquiet

8.0

“No-one in the world of neoclassicism champions the piano as passionately as Nils Frahm. In 2015 the German composer founded Piano Day to honour the instrument, taking place on the 88th day of each year (in reference to the 88 keys on a piano). He was also the mind behind the Klavins 450; the world’s tallest piano at over 14ft, which he built especially to record his album Solo. To celebrate Piano ”

All Encores

loudandquiet

8.0

“In rounding off his Encores trilogy of EPs by releasing them as one full-length package, Nils Frahm invites questions about whether or not they were always designed to fit together, as well as an obvious pressure that he initially seemed to have avoided by opting for short-form releases – All Encores, inevitably, will now be judged against last year’s superb All Melody LP. Frahm’s calling card has”

All Melody

loudandquiet

8.0

“Watch Nils Frahm play and you see an artist totally immersed in his craft – his parade of vintage and custom-made equipment a deft extension of his hands and fingers. But listen to Frahm, and he’s a man unsatisfied with his own unattainable ambition. “The music I hear inside me will never end up on a record,” he says, “It seems I can only play it for myself.” That admission, however, does nothing ”

All Melody

pitchfork

7.8

“Recorded in the storied Funkhaus studio in Germany, All Melody is pianist Nils Frahm’s grandest statement yet, yet it maintains the inquisitive, exploratory spirit of his most playful recordings.”