PortastaticBest Portastatic Albums Ranked
7.6
Avg Score
9
Opinions
7
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 9 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Portastatic's catalog across 7 albums from 9 opinions, with an overall average of 7.6/10. The top-rated Portastatic album is The Summer of the Shark (2003) with a 7.9/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Be Still Please and Bright Ideas. The discography on Wavelength spans 2001 to 2008.
De Mel, De Melão - EP
“Bless globalization. On Portastatic's delicious new EP, Superchunk's Mac McCaughan takes cues from Brazil's tropicalia new wave of the late '60s, who at the time were taking cues from the acid and pop movements of America and England. And now, thirty years later, college kids can interpret the lyrics with help of online translation engines as they sit in an Internet café munching on cashew satay s”
The Summer of the Shark
“Providing the proper context for a baggage-heavy project like Portastatic is tricky, especially without launching into some kind of perverse, indie rock version of *The $10,000 Pyramid*, twitching in a plastic seat and frantically hollering buzzwords: Superchunk frontman! Co-owner of Merge Records! Tropicalia! Chapel Hill! Canadian film soundtrack! Yo La Tengo! But the peripheral associations that”
Be Still Please
“On his latest release, Merge and Superchunk man Mac McCaughan returns to his indie rock roots and explores the orchestral and bossa nova sounds of his soundtrack and previous Portastatic work.”
Autumn Was a Lark
“Frontman side projects are notoriously disastrous, but Superchunk's Mac McCaughan is clever enough to consistently pull off Portastatic, his ever-self-modifying alter ego. The guise has long provided him an outlet for his more experimental urges, offering shifting band lineups, quirky narrative devices, and an undemocratic opportunity for him to orchestrate loads of unpredicted blips. McCaughan's”
Some Small History
“This 44-track collection from Mac McCaughan (Superchunk, Merge Records) gathers Portastatic B-sides, rarities, demos, and unreleased tunes from the last 18 years as it jumps styles, instruments, recording techniques and eras with almost each successive track.”
Looking for Leonard
“Things haven't been the same since that line from *Pulp Fiction* was sequenced into the beginning of the surf number that opens the ubiquitous soundtrack. It wasn't the first to prominently feature movie dialogue and relatively obscure music, but it was the first of its kind to be hugely popular. From then on, it became clear that you didn't need a John Williams composition or Whitney Houston's sq”
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