Summary from 16 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Ought's catalog across 3 albums from 16 opinions, with an overall average of 7.7/10. The top-rated Ought album is Sun Coming Down (2015) with a 8.2/10 average from 5 ratings, followed by More Than Any Other Day and Room Inside the World. The discography on Wavelength spans 2014 to 2018. Habit ranks as the highest-rated Ought song on Wavelength with a 8.1/10 average.
Room Inside the World
“Almost exactly halfway through Ought’s third album – four and a half songs into the nine-track running order – a 70-piece choir rises imperceptibly from the depths of a song that’s propulsive and appealing but nonetheless earthbound, and begins a yearning back and forth with Tim Darcy’s own brooding baritone that takes it into the stratosphere. On the one hand, it’s a marvellous surprise: despite”
More Than Any Other Day
“Montreal-based art-punk band Ought’s debut is an endearing and electrifying album that treats panic attacks and adrenalized ecstasy as two sides of the same pounding heart. It’s an anxious, distressed record to be sure, but it presents itself as such simply to show you how that nervous energy can be put to constructive use.”
Sun Coming Down
“Ought's neurotic, jittery approach to art rock and post-punk really impressed me on their latest album. Still room for improvement, but very impressive.”
Sun Coming Down
“Between Kim Thayil's Sabbath-style hypnoriffs and Chris Cornell's keening, Robert Plant-like tenor, Soundgarden are generally written off by alternative fans as just a smarter-than-average metal band. After all, how much was there to "Rusty Cage" or "Outshined" beyond dark, sludgy and tricky Zeppélinesque time changes? Quite a bit, actually. But it's been easy to miss the subtler aspects of Soundg”
Sun Coming Down
“Ought’s 2014 debut, More Than Any Other Day, was an album of slowly unfurled epiphanies. Affirming moments are a little harder to come by on the more chaotic and caustic Sun Coming Down, but the album’s relentless drive and uncompromising attitude constitute their own special kind of thrill. If More Than Any Other Day was about the hard-fought, triumphant ascent, Sun Coming Down is the giddy, daredevil “wheeeeee!” down the other side of the peak.”
Sun Coming Down
“Ought ramble and twitch with greater freedom and intensity on new album Sun Coming Down”
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