Virginia WingBest Virginia Wing Albums Ranked
8.3
Avg Score
9
Opinions
3
Albums
4
Reviewers
Summary from 9 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Virginia Wing's catalog across 3 albums from 9 opinions, with an overall average of 8.3/10. The top-rated Virginia Wing album is Ecstatic Arrow (2018) with a 8.4/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Forward Constant Motion and private LIFE. The discography on Wavelength spans 2016 to 2021.
private LIFE
“It isn’t immediately obvious that private LIFE, Virginia Wing’s fourth album, is their most engaging album to date. Anyone might think it’s ‘just’ Ecstatic Arrow Mk. 2 – and neither artist nor listener would be to blame, given how the Manchester group’s 2018 release represents such a strident leap forward that it would be inadvisable to do anything too off-piste for the follow-up. The two LPs are”
Ecstatic Arrow
“When metronomic deadpan doesn’t work as a vocal style, a record can be prone to sounding more like your operating system than a carefully considered piece of art. “Alexa, can you turn off your background noise?” for example. “I’m sorry, even I don’t understand this,” and so on and so forth. For each part that ‘Ecstatic Arrow’ is self-possessed and monotonous, it also runs with the energy and free”
Forward Constant Motion
“For a band used to operating in such slow, smoky and dreamy sonic textures, Virginia Wing are currently accelerating at techno pace. Since their 2013 debut EP they have metamorphosed from a Broadcast-indebted dream pop band to a sprawling, unpredictable and deeply exploratory electronic two-piece, trading London as a base for Manchester in the process. A fast paced musical evolution combined with”
Ecstatic Arrow
“On their third album of avant-garde synth pop, Alice Merida Richards and Sam Pillay eschew protest language and the depressing status quo to conjure a vision of feminist utopia.”
private LIFE
“Expanding from a duo to a trio, complete with saxophone, the Manchester group embraces newfound production gloss without sacrificing its indie-pop roots.”
Forward Constant Motion
“Virginia Wing's Forward Constant Motion is an adventurous, mischievous, proper psych record”
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