The Cinematic OrchestraBest The Cinematic Orchestra Albums Ranked
6.6
Avg Score
8
Opinions
8
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 8 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated The Cinematic Orchestra's catalog across 8 albums from 8 opinions, with an overall average of 6.6/10. The top-rated The Cinematic Orchestra album is Every Day (2002) with a 8.6/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Ma Fleur and Motion. The discography on Wavelength spans 1999 to 2022. To Build a Home (feat. Patrick Watson) ranks as the highest-rated The Cinematic Orchestra song on Wavelength with a 6.0/10 average.
Every Day
“*Every Day*, the Cinematic Orchestra's third full-length release, proves that occasionally it's not what you do that really counts, but whom you do it with. By enlisting new recruits to his Orchestra, Jason Swinscoe has sloughed the derivative mannerisms that marred 1999's *Motion* and 2000's *Remixes 1998-2000*-- where those two albums sounded stiff and crippled by the weight of overt influence, ”
Motion
“Exciting times, these! So what if the Messiah didn't turn up on the Eve of the New Millennium? What do we need some sandled beardy-weirdy for, anyway? Less than two full months into 2000, we got Primal Scream's Molotov incendiary device, *Exterminator*, which resurrected the emaciated, once-revolutionary specters of the Stooges and the MC5, and stomped dusted-up beats all over them. Brill! The ro”
Ma Fleur
“J. Swinscoe's downtempo outfit-- which escaped the trappings of its peers by feeling more like expansive, carefully constructed suites than collections of songs-- returns after a five-year drought.”
The Cinematic Orchestra Presents In Motion #1
“This quasi-Cinematic Orchestra release-- in fact a curated seven-song set, of which three are theirs-- was made to score a collection of avant-garde films, and feels strangely incomplete without the inspirational source material.”
Man With a Movie Camera
“Recommending soundtracks is tricky, because I almost feel like I'm not giving the music its fair shake unless I hear it behind the film at the same time. Certainly there are some great scores out there: Nina Rota's work for Fellini, Bernard Herrmann's amazing music for Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick's survey of modern classical music for his own pictures are a few of my favorites. However, generall”
Live At the Royal Albert Hall (Bonus Track Version)
“Ornamented with an army of vocalists and a 24-piece orchestra, this trip-hop outfit has assembled an unyieldingly classy live recording that nonetheless hints at some fundamental problems.”
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