Strand of OaksBest Strand of Oaks Albums Ranked
7.4
Avg Score
8
Opinions
6
Albums
4
Reviewers
Summary from 8 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Strand of Oaks's catalog across 6 albums from 8 opinions, with an overall average of 7.4/10. The top-rated Strand of Oaks album is HEAL (2014) with a 7.7/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Pope Killdragon and Eraserland. The discography on Wavelength spans 2010 to 2019.
Pope Killdragon
“Confessional singer-songwriter abandons the personal tragedies that inspired his debut in favor of an astoundingly original twist on the loner-folk template.”
HEAL
“Timothy Showalter's fourth album as Strand of Oaks and first for Dead Oceans is an album as memoir: stark and at times emotionally harrowing as it recounts with bracing candor the artist’s struggles with friends, family, and most of all himself.”
Eraserland
“Fusing post-punk touchstones with his heartland-rock heroes, a reinvigorated Timothy Showalter comes back to the light.”
Hard Love
“The latest Strand of Oaks album has a sunnier outlook and a hedonistic streak, evoking Creation Records bands like Primal Scream and Oasis. But it never really adds up to a bold statement.”
Hard Love
“Strand of Oaks didn’t mean to create an album that feels like a compilation, but it doesn’t stop ‘Hard Love’ sounding like a different band is playing each track. Singer Tim Showalter clearly has stories he wants to tell, but with a kaleidoscope approach where the heavy, grunge reverb of ‘Everything’ and The Gaslight Anthem spirit of ‘Radio Kids’ anchor the first half of the album, the Coldplay in”
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