TinariwenBest Tinariwen Albums Ranked
8.2
Avg Score
17
Opinions
7
Albums
6
Reviewers
Summary from 17 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Tinariwen's catalog across 7 albums from 17 opinions, with an overall average of 8.2/10. The top-rated Tinariwen album is Elwan (2017) with a 8.4/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Aman Iman: Water Is Life and Amatssou. The discography on Wavelength spans 2007 to 2023. Matadjem Yinmixan ranks as the highest-rated Tinariwen song on Wavelength with a 8.1/10 average.
Elwan
“Tinariwen's Elwan is bigger than the blues”
Elwan
“On their latest set, Mali’s Tinariwen ensemble mix Western African styles, feverish group workouts, and world-weary lyrics, collaborating with Kurt Vile and Mark Lanegan in the process.”
Emmaar (Deluxe Edition)
“Malian musicians Tinariwen's new Emmaar showcases their ever-swirling guitars while also displaying an increasingly refined approach to album-making.”
Aman Iman: Water Is Life
“Formed in a Libyan refugee camp in the early 1980s, the guitar-centered Tinariwen collective can be heard as hypnotic and politically charged desert blues.”
Amatssou
“On Amatssou, pioneers of what has been dubbed ‘desert blues’ (though the term does little justice to the complex and diverse music of the Sahara) Tinariwen have written the soundtrack for a world that still cannot shed its colonial biases towards ‘world music’. Driven by the political turmoil in Mali, Amatssou stands as a testament to the struggles of the Berber tribe against the Salafists. With ”
Elwan
“Though Tinariwen's moniker translates to "deserts" in the Tamasheq tongue native to the band's members, there is nothing barren, arid or inhospitable about their music. Rather, the Malian troop's songs boast flowery, blooming vocals, drums that patter like fresh falling rain and guitar riffs that deeply unspool like roots in rich, soft soil. Many of the songs on Tinariwen's new album, Elwan, als”
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