Six Organs of AdmittanceBest Six Organs of Admittance Albums Ranked

School of the Flower

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8.3

“Wedding the experimental free-folk of "New Weird America" to the more conventionally song-focused SF freak-folk movement, Six Organs of Admittance mastermind Ben Chasny comes into his own on this, his first-ever studio-recorded LP. Richly textured and three-dimensional, School of the Flower straddles the line between moody ambient madness and vintage sunlit psych-folk.”

Dark Noontide

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8.2

“The 13th Floor Elevators' first album, Love's *Forever Changes*, Pink Floyd's *Piper at the Gates of Dawn*, and other such mind-expanding classics can get the job done on their own. They don't need much outside help in the form of drugs, or anything else for that matter. The way I see it, if an album needs drugs to make it enjoyable or emotionally moving, then-- by definition-- it's lacking someth”

Burning the Threshold

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8.1

“This new LP from psych-folk guitar hero Ben Chasny is his warmest, most accessible release yet. Its supporting cast of avant-rock all-stars includes Damon & Naomi, Ryley Walker, and Circuit Des Yeux.”

Burning the Threshold

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8.0

“Six Organs of Admittance transmit mellow back to Earth”

The Sun Awakens

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8.0

“Ben Chasny's eighth album under the Six Organs tag, expertly recorded by the Fucking Champs' Tim Green, is more subtly layered and focused than its predecessors.”

For Octavio Paz

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8.0

“Six Organs of Admittance has always found peace in patience, even when that peace is meted out only after fingers have been jabbed in eyes or a bag of crazy pills emptied. With *For Octavio Paz*, single chair Organist Ben Chasny lingers on the path to redemption, but it's a quieter route this time out, and where it goes, there's neither electricity nor the need for human voices. The all-acoustic ”