Día

Shout out to Mr Dimery. He doesn't care about what you, or I, or common opinion thinks. If he likes an album, he will put it in. ​So, I have the luxury of reviewing an album that was added only yesterday. My review will, by default, briefly appear closer to your eyes before descending down the rankings—which is a fitting analogy for this album. ​So why has he picked it to be added to the 2026 edition? Do the kids love it? No, barely 2 million streams for the lead single. Do critics love it? No. This is an album that appeared in a few publications’ mid-year best album lists before mostly descending down the rankings into irrelevance by the time of publication of the more important end-of-year lists. Is it challenging? Not really. Is it unique? Not really. Socially relevant? Also no. It's an album that, without Mr Dimery's intervention, would have disappeared, covered under the mountains of other releases that define the streaming-pile album environment of modern music services. ​This is an album that is fine (although a lot of you will hate it). It's beat-driven, well structured, with angular vocals filtered through a foreign vocal charm that adds mystique, but it is generally unremarkable. It heavily recalls The Knife (a better candidate for this list) and relies on a hard-leaning electro sound that I'm sure will sound great in a modern playlist alongside artists like Slayyyter or Heartworms (not a misspelling of Hookworms, which has just been deleted)—two better albums ( not hookworms another odd pick that was pleasant but unremarkable). ​Fair play, Mr Dimery, it's a pick you like, and it takes courage not to bow to internet publications and their consensus lists, but to stick to your own opinion. ​It's a 3 for me. ​Being the first review published, I get to play a game and make a prediction for what you lot will score it. I'll go for 2.7.

After the first song I thought "this is what LCD Sound system might sound like were James Murphy a bisexual millenial." By the last song I'd realised that "this is actually what Björk would sound like were she a bisexual zoomer."

An album that came out last year listed here as influential? Whoever compiled this list has confused ‘influential’ with ‘ i liked it’.

Día From all accounts this appears to be quite an obscure addition, without a huge volume of critical response or streaming/sales. I’m not surprised I’ve not heard of it, as I’m quite out of touch, but it definitely feels very much like something they’d play on 6 Music, and overall I really liked it. The duo of Abrir Monte and Broken kick things off brilliantly, the former’s moody atmospherics giving way to the excellent Synthpop of the latter. Idols is great too, I like how ‘I took a blow to the face’ sounds like ‘I took a bloke to the face’. It loses its way a little for me with IDK, it sort of meanders around between synths, feeling a bit like a Super Hans style the longer the note, the more dread, and QQQQ feels less inspired and a little more generic than the majority of the songs on the album. I Want to be Better is good though, with a more Latin rhythm and some synths that recall Sledgehammer. Onwards is great, with more of a 90s feel to it with the synth bass and ravey whistles and more mondegreens, this time wanting ‘to see Ed Byrne’. I like how it transitions into the clunky sounds of And, before the excellent Upwards (Shave you, shave myself), again with a great 90s, ravey feel. And Combat has a pleasant dreaminess to meander things to a close at a pleasantly concise 33 minutes. A couple of dips in the middle notwithstanding I thought this was great, and I’ll be keen to come back to it. 🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴 Playlist submission: Upwards

If I were to tell my old 80's metal kid self that this was going in the rotation with the Iron Maiden and the Motorhead I'd want to kick my own ass. But here we are. I've always had a thing for musicians who write their own music, and the analog instruments really top it off. Probably the 2nd best album in the revised book. Dimery you sly bastard. Way to sneak in a little underground electronica.

Man I have like 50 leftovers from my 2025 album wishlist, I don't got time for this shit Edit: I did, in fact, have time for this shit. Let's get this out of the way: Fever Ray & Björk. Those are the artists I hear the most strongly in this 2025 release. Without going too far into the Ela Minus rabbit hole, I think it's interesting that she released her debut in the midst of the pandemic, both because that seems way too recent (well... 6 years ago), but I think it contextualizes the kind of introverted dance music here. As "BM" writes for the 1001 Albums book: "If it's three o'clock in the morning and you're too tired to dance but too cool to sleep, here's the album for you." I didn't take that advice; I tried listening on the commute to work but couldn't get past the first couple tracks. On the commute FROM work, free of additional distractions, it became more enjoyable. I can see that liminality working against it for some listeners, where people wanting electropop jams and those craving exploratory synth ambience could both be disappointed. Definitely the strangest so far of the new albums, but idk- it scratched an itch. A low 4 HL: "Broken", "Onwards", "Upwards", "QQQQ", "Combat" October 22, 2026

Adding an album from a year ago is like putting a 1-year old on the “America’s Most Influential People” list because they are showing so much potential. On top of that, they took a 5-year old off the list and now he’s crying, so nobody’s happy. No criticism to the one who runs this site, or for the artist who is just trying her best to raise this 1 year old child. Only for Mr Dimery who is making this project unserious.

“I’m 14 and this is deep” the album. There’s a lot of promise in this artist but oh boy did this not work for me

I enjoyed this. But it's inclusion further confounds my understanding of what this list is.

Stephen Berman in Pitchfork pithily described this as "Fever Ray of Light", and I just can't shake that epigram. This is a good example of how it is possible to make a pretty schmick pop album without professional studios or major label budgets these days. This sounds indistinguishable from many much bigger pop albums. It's a smart, stylish and literate and well produced. It is a little bit _too_ perfect for my tastes, and I wish people would resist the urge to drown the vocals in quite so much digital processing, but I guess that is the fashion these days. So, good job, Ms Minus. But how this rates as a 'must hear album'... there are a thousand albums out there they you could handily substitute for this album. I did like 'UPWARDS' - that was a catchy track. 2.5 stars, rounding up.

No idea what HDD buried in an Uzbekistani copper mine Dimery extracted this album from, but it ain't bad. It is kinda funny how he goes for these bizarro dimension picks that sound like fake versions of very obvious picks though. Like, this over The Knife/Fever Ray? Or if we're sticking to 2025, this over Magdalena Bay? Starts off vaguely sounding like Björk, then sounds a lot like Björk. Might genuinely be better than Björk's latest album, to be completely honest. Again, not bad, I enjoyed it, just a weird pick. Not an egregious one like the Rolling Stones one though. Three outta five.

Wow, what a first song! I was under the impression that Ela Minus was a straightforward electropop/synthpop artist, yet this album starts with an over five minutes long droning ambient piece with some tricky IDM bits towards the end. I loved it and was blown away, then as it ends it transitions into the next song which IS a straightforward electropop song reusing the same beat, but it's so wonderful! Unfortunately.... The rest of the album really doesn't live up to the first song, and from song 3 onwards it's all downhill. Well thats a bit harsh, it does move away a little from the more standard electropop elements after a while and the IDM hints are brought a bit more to the forefront, as well as other interesting elements like tech house and even some industrial. And then... It ends. 33 minutes, was way too short, Ela Minus has some interesting ideas but you gotta flesh them out a bit more. Right I was really starting to get into the album it was over. Still, like Mon Rovia, I'll be interested to see what she does next. Was it a good addition to the list: No Top 3 songs: Abrir Monte, Broken, I Want To Be Better

Was not as bad as it started out being. I was distracted most of the time at work and did not give it fair shake. However, if it could not keep my attention, it could not have been that special.

Día is the second album by Colombian artist Ela Minus. It is a decent electronic album created using only analog synthesizers. The problem is that there is nothing special about the album, everything has been done before and better. To be one the list it should have something that makes it essential and there is nothing on it that justifies that label. Even on Metacritic it's not in the top 200 of the year.

Barely passable as a music album. More akin to a music score for Stranger Things. Too much studio gadgetry and not enough oomph.

Ничем не примечательный альбом непонятно как оказавшийся в этом списке. Он конечно не вызывает раздражения и отторжения, но быть одним из 1001 альбомов… смело и очень спорно

Blind album and artist. What? 2.

It was all okay. I think I would have loved it if it had come out in the late '90s or early '00s. It would have been groundbreaking and amazing, but as it is it feels sort of behind the curve sort of. If I'd heard it then I'd be like oh is she the New Bjork? But now Rosalia is quite clearly the new bjork and pushing boundaries and this is more repeating things that I have heard in the past which is less exciting

Fine. Indistinguishable from any other electronic music.

It was OK

Feels a little bit like the editors are trying to compensate for how sparse the electronic music gets after the list bombards you with 90s techno, because most of these new additions are in that general space. Interesting that this one seems to have been pretty obscure, though.

Er... Mr.Dimery? Ever heard of The Knife, or its sister project Fever Ray? They've been releasing stuff for more than twenty years now. Surely that must ring a bell for a music critic that's as professional and knowledgeable as you are... Oops no, I stand corrected... You have ignored them all this time. For chrissake. 🤦🏼 As another reviewer stated here, there's nothing inherently wrong in this experimental pop album using techno-inspired patterns to send its songs and interludes into a kaleidoscope of neon lights oozing with a chiaroscuro aura -- one indeed decidedly close to The Knife's artistry. Ela Minus's vocal delivery feels a bit stilted at times, but her light Columbian drawl for her English lyrics (when she is not singing in Spanish on a couple of songs or song bridges) can turn that sort of shortcoming into an asset, and so bring interesting flavors to the recipe, at least. In a sense, the weird-sounding vocals tie the project to Karin Dreijer again. There is that same "European", arty feel in Minus's music, is there not? The songs and more-than-competent compositions are rarely as striking as to make you want to return to them, though. "Broken", "Idols" and "Upwards" stand out. The rest is clearly a notch under, if not two or three. Worse, the introductive instrumental track -- basically a blandly decorated waiting room for "Broken" --goes on forever for no discernible reason. And as I suggested before, this is not as if Ela Minus was breaking new ground for what follows that initial instrumental either. Final verdict: this is not the worst of the 13 additions to the 2026 edition of the *1001 Albums* book so far, but it's still one of the most incomprehensible ones (not to say stupid). I know that the Rolling Stones' Hackneyed Diamond LP -- or whatever that shlocky makeover simulacrum disgrace of an album is really called -- is coming up soon, so I will save some negative energy to lambast that one instead of roasting Ela Minus -- who is just doing her thing without having a lot of marketing power behind her, contrary to the aging Stones... Frankly, I am not even sure this inclusion is doing a huge favor to the artist given what she does. If she ends up axed in the 2030 edition of the book, as I predict she will be, it will sort of look like a stain on her pop career -- whereas if she had been left alone, she would have had the time to grow free of pressure as an artist. Let's be clear: so far, only *Brat* (whose own marketing power is here associated with stuff that's *culturally relevant*) -- to which I could possibly add *Songs From A Lost World*, *Blue Rev* and *Hit Me Hard And Soft* -- are making a shred of sense in the 2026 additions. I also really like *All Born Screaming*, but there are at least three better St. Vincent albums to select instead of that one (yes she was ignored as well all this time). And so far, there has been *zero* truly cutting edge choices in those 13 changes to the original list. The 2026 additions are a catastrophe, broadly speaking. But who's surprised? Are you hearing that sound? It's my eyes rolling back so hard, they are rattling against the edges of my skull. And Mr. Dimery should be blamed for this. 3/5 for the purposes of this list dedicated to essential albums. 8/10 for more general purposes (5 for the musicianship and production values + 3 for the artistry) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 + 1 (addition to the 2026 edition of the book) Albums from the original list I *might* select for mine later on: 288 + 3 (additions to the 2026 edition of the book) Albums from the original list I won't select for mine: 336 + 4 (*including this one addition to the 2026 edition of the book*) ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 124 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 142 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 319

Wow i kinda hated this

Día is a curious pick for the new edition of the book. It’s not a high-flyer, and it didn’t really stand out when it came out. It is an album I’d recommend seeing live. A lot of these songs really come to life (pun intended) on stage, and they’re much more intense and compelling than the studio versions. When I saw her, QQQQ and Onwards flowed into one another in a different version, and it was so much better than on the record. I love the deep bass of Onwards. Perhaps the curators of the book saw her live too. On record, it sounds a bit like Björk singing Röyksopp songs, and that takes away from my enjoyment. I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more if she had sung it in her native Spanish. IDK and Onwards are my highlights. It’s a 3.5 star album for me, but this is the 1001 albums you need to hear before you die, and this just isn’t one of them.

Decent blend of things

This is my first "unheard new book (2026) album". Electro-pop/dance pop.... Super new though (2025 album release). I mean, it's fine, but can't really speak to its staying power... Favourite songs: Broken, Onwards, QQQQ, Idols Least favourite songs: And 3/5

Хотел бы я взглянуть на ехидное ебало чела который добавлял этот альбом в топ, вот чем же он сука руководствовался, без этого ведь альбома список не полный, это лучшее из 2025, отличный представитель

Didn't need another example of generic electronica just because it's new.

Interesting

Oh jee, een recent album, dat zo populair is dat het nog niet eens een eigen pagina op wiki heeft (ook niet in het Spaans, dat heb ik gelijk even gecheckt). Ik zet mezelf alvast schrap. Het is een soort dancepop, dat me ergens aan doet denken, maar ik kan niet benoemen wat voor bandje of act (ik lees in de comments op youtube "colombiaanse Bjork"). Typisch iets dat in de Bravo op Lowlands had kunnen staan in ieder geval, al staat daar tegenwoordig ook teveel rap en hiphop geloof ik. In mijn tijd (opa vertelt) stonden daar de elektronische acts. Ik vind het weer eens een bijzondere keuze van de snobs. Als je dan iets uit een Spaanstalig land wil toevoegen, wat recent is en megaveel awards in de wacht heeft gesleept, en volgens mij ook nog heel snobwaardig, dan hadden ze voor Lux van Rosalia moeten kiezen. Niet dat ikzelf die muziek beter vind, want dat is me veel te theatraal ook. De snobs hebben sowieso weer eens lopen slapen, zoals altijd. Qua waardering van dit album: het is niet per se slecht, maar het is niet mijn muziek. En ik vraag me toch sterk af of dit niet een album gaat zijn, dat er over een paar edities weer uit gaat. Ik kan het uiteraard fout hebben, maar ik geef dit nu 2 sterretjes. Te mager en oninteressant allemaal.

A turn-off. Not very good.

Was prepared to hate this, but I ... don't. I doubt I'll listen to it again soon, but at least this is interesting (in the most positive sense) and fresh, unlike many other Pop or Electronica releases in recent years. Another review mentioned similarities with Björk, and I think that reviewer was spot-on. The weirdness is there, and singing styles are also somewhat similar. I applaud Ela Minus for releasing an album like this, and the editors for including it in the latest edition of The Book. 3/5

#496 It came out just last year and you must hear it before you die, apparently, until of course, the next edition of the book is published when this likely gets canned for something else. Anyway, the album itself is kind of interesting, quite well put together, although it’s all a bit clinical and cold for my tastes but nonetheless, interesting. I just don’t think it’s that remarkable unfortunately. Heard before? ❌ Would I revisit? ❌ Listen before you die? ❌ Fave track(s): UPWARDS Rating: 5/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

mod sound, but nothing setting it apart from the rest of the pack

The longer I listened the less I liked this album.

Oh how i love an album that takes over 3 minutes to do anything more than drone. I really dont understand why this album is on the list. There are far better albums in the genre like Nia Archives or Shygirl.

I was unconvinced that an album released only last year could possibly be worthy of inclusion; having now heard it, I was right. While this is short and sweet (10 songs in little over 30mins), it was just mindless noise. All of it sounded the same, to the point it could have all been the same track for all the nuance to it. Just not at all for me, I’m afraid.

Oh! An album from the new version of the book! Equal parts exciting and baffling because how can you really decide an album is going to have an influential legacy, when its been out for less than 2 years?* This album features one of my personal 'most hated' features: a song at the beginning that does nothing much at all for well over a minute. Just get on with it! When track 1 finally did get going it was like being in a rainforest but with space lazer pew pew noises going on in the background. I started liking it a lot more when the vocals started on track 2. "I'd love to shave you, but you've got to shave yourself" is quite the lyric. I actually didn't mind this. Didn't love it, didn't (mostly) hate it. So It's getting a 2.5 that's turning into a: 3/5 *STILL NO THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, DIMERY?! FOR SHAME!

My first of the "new" batch I think. And, yeah, it's pretty good. Somehow I feel like, due to my age, I'm past having the hunger to understand every single new hot thing so really have no way to compare to anything else that's been released in this timeframe. Pleased this has been brought to my attention. Worthy of inclusion on the list / will it remain on the list? Far far far too early to tell.

This is great. I like the mix of dance music and singing with all of the synthesizer and weird recording shenanigans. There's some playfulness and oddness to the songs that makes me want to make comparisons to Bjork or Roisin Murphy even though Ela's style is completely distinct. 4/5

This one was good. Less chilly The Knife. I had a good time with this and would revisit it. 4/5

Didn't really enjoy this one, I don't think I'll be coming back for a second listen.

I didn’t like this at all, struggled to listen to any track

Quite liked this...

Didn't hate it. Not usually my bag, but this was a pretty good listen.

Not particularly remarkable about the album itself, but I'll raise my rating a bit just to praise the fact that it's an official list album that is not from the US or the UK. It deserves to be noted after all.

A good blend of synth pop

First impression was mediocre, but I think it deserves more listens. I was going to give up and give it a 2, but then I heard the very last song (COMBAT) and decided I needed to go back and listen again. QQQQ is also great. Overall, worth spending some time with this and listening to it on a good sound system that can capture the subtelties. (I started listeining to it in my car, which is really not the place to seriously listen to any music. COMBAT broke through even with this handicap. So I then listened to it on my home stereo and really appreciated it. Started listening to other songs and realized that this album needs a good stereo to really shine - more so than most music).

4. This is a generous 4, but still deserved. A lot of complaints in the reviews so far as to how new this is, but I think it has a place on the list. Excellent to have booming through the house once you get into it.

I thought this was okay for the most part, but sometimes the synth or the vocals had a harsh sound to it. I didn't enjoy that.

This Ambient Techno album feels like drifting through outer space, watching distant planets and unfamiliar constellations pass by while strange signals echo through the darkness. Ela Minus builds a spacious electronic landscape from floating synthesizer layers, deep bass pulses and carefully constructed rhythms. The sounds have a futuristic, almost weightless quality, creating an atmosphere that feels more like a journey through the universe than a conventional dance record. Beneath the expansive production, her vocals add a subtle human presence, occasionally bringing the music back in the space moving on. I enjoy the unusual sonic environment, even when the tracks feel more like a continuous background music than dance music. It is an interesting place to spend some time, with plenty to explore.

Way too electronic for me, but I get the appeal - kind of plastic in a way.

¡Dios mío!

Clearly not relevant or good enough to hold a place on any top list. Rather boring and pointless. 2/5 Won’t listen again

Just a really cool electronic sound bringing to mind Bjork and LCD Soundsystem.

Good album, not sure if it’s one you need to hear before you die. Sounds like semi experiemental dance music, so good but a little repetitive. 3 stars is good

For a recent album I thought it would be better

A surprisingly interesting album. Very creative and unusual. Full of musical and sound ideas. Good singing, her voice a few times reminded me of Björk, which mixes and interferes well with the underlying sound woven structure.

This was a really nice experience. I knew here from a couple of years ago and always like what she did. The record really deserves to be included here.

After the first six mind-numbing minutes, this got really good. I'll definitely revisit this album soon.

I really liked this and have already re-listened and sought out Ela Minus's first record. Recommend reading her Wiki page (its brief) to understand more about the approach and commitment to using analog synthesizers. Clearly a talent, can't wait to hear what she does next.

Boring

Sure. Why not. Nothing wrong with this album. But it being the only album included from the last ten years sort of makes my head spin. I think what’s most confusing in knowing that someone is still updating this list is why Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit are still on it. Wild. Anyway - not a bad listen. Not a great one.

Mostly dreamy/hazy/ethereal synthscapes punctuated by electronica/techno dance beats, with Ela’s somewhat stilted ESL vocals (imagine ABBA on a bad day) layered over the top. Despite that description, I liked it more than I would have thought.

1.4

An interesting album. A pleasant listen with a variety of styles. Some good pop songs. Interesting dance beats and electronica sounds. Never heard of her. I like her.

It's quite difficult to reconcile what this book was aiming to achieve when it first came out in 2004, and what it seems to be trying to achieve with its 2026 edition, if my first three 'new' selections are anything to go by. Where once we had seven Bowie albums and everything a former Beatle or Byrd ever breathed near, ensuring an exhausting level of detail on artists that virtually everyone already has heard of, we are now treated to the depths of niche obscurity with LPs that 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘞𝘪𝘬𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺. Día is a really interesting electronic album that feels every bit of the 70-year gap from the book's earliest entries. I returned to it frequently this week and it really grew on me. If you have the patience for the rippling ambience and building tension of the opening trio, you'll find the rewards in the euphoric beats, bass and bloops of the second-half three-track suite of Onwards, And, Upwards. I also respect the representation of more artists, particularly female, with different backgrounds and influences. I'll admit to being puzzled as to why this was chosen, and still a little frustrated by some of the continued omissions but I can't deny that I enjoyed it and took a dabble in the rest of her catalogue. It's neither the first nor last puzzling inclusion but at least it was fun. Can't really complain about discovering something new, different and enjoyable.

It's fine. 3/5

Glitchy and pulsating, icy cold electronica palette with dark heavy beats and vibey songs full of space. Wears its influences (Bjork especially) heavily. Fun stuff.

Hard to say an album from last year deserves a spot on this list, but I will say this intrigued me more than I was expecting. Just up my alley. 4/5

Bjork does it better but I've heard worse.

This has a Björk vibe. It was fun and fine, but ultimately unnecessary for this list. Another one without an album article on Wikipedia yet, just the artist. The song Upwards caught my ear every listen. This is fine.

I think the biggest success for me with this album is the actual music. I really like how impactful some of the synths are, and the drumbeats go hard at times. I'm not always big on floaty vocals, but they're decent enough. It's kind of weird, but doing its own thing which I appreciate. There's not really any specific tracks that stand out for me, but as a whole album it's pretty cohesive. Not bad!

внимательно весь день слушала и ничего не помню кроме ки ки ки ки. в общем немного техно и вот этот дисторшн не мои жанры

Yeah, an album barely 2 1/2 years old can't be considered a must listen. 2/5

Pleasantly fun bleep bloops with very generic vocals thrown on top. It was unfortunately pretty forgettable to me.

Nice that they've gone for something a little bit out of the Western mainstream, and it's refreshing to come into an album with zero preconceptions, though on the flip side it makes it harder to gauge whether this made much of a splash culturally or critically. The music sounds promising though! Lots of interesting synth sounds and it flows together well as an album. The vocal delivery is almost Björkian at times, while you could've fooled me that I Want to Be Better was a new Fever Ray track. Surprisingly Nordic-sounding for an artist from Colombia, but I like it. I think Día has shown enough potential in a few listens to receive my favourite score: 3.5 shiny stars.

Gear: Moondrop Variations Artwork: 📸👩‍🦰🔢 Production: 📣🔪🥾 Music: 🎛️🪩📉 Rating: ⏲️(⏲️)/5

I like Ela Minus, but this is a completely unnecessary addition sorry

I liked it! Very FKA Twigs/Björk-esque with a lot of hust ambient instrumentals that give it a soothing sound. Happy about this one! 8/10

Not a bad listen.

Perfectly fine, but why was this added?

​DÍA demonstrates an artist stepping out from behind the gear to let songwriting lead. It retains her signature DIY, analog-only ethos while feeling far more open, hopeful, and melodically confident than her previous work. Clocking in at just under 34 minutes across 10 tracks, it moves briskly without a wasted second.

In like that this was done with analog synthesizers, but it didn’t really go much for me. Some good soundscapes but generally too poppy.

Yeah, I liked the first track and then it all grew a bit glommed-together and uninspiring. A bonus star for the DIY DJ ethos.

Cool electronic fusion tracks

Be Minus.

This is not a Björk copycat. People who think that obviously don't understand Björk. Ela Minus is Electronica, while Björk cannot be pinned to any genre besides, well, Björk. I don't want to belittle Ela Minus; they are not comparable. Back on topic: I liked this album, though no single track stood out to me. I wouldn't add it to my regular playlist, but I wouldn't mind if it popped up time after time.

I wanted to love Día because those analog synth textures and moody, electronic vibes are right up my alley. But honestly? It started off cool and then just felt kind of one-note. It’s got some nice moments and sounds pretty neat, but it mostly just feels like a bunch of half-baked ideas instead of a real, solid album.

the upbeat stuff on here is pretty great, but i was not as much of a fan of the slower stuff. definitely an interesting pick for the list.

This was okay, not awful, not amazing, just okay. It ended just as I was starting to get a little into it. Three stars.

A pretty good electronic album and also cool to see representation from Colombia on the list. I would definitely revisit it, although I don't see much to have really earned a place on the list. My two criticisms are 1) it feels a bit disjointed as an album. The styles are all over the place. I feels less like a complete statement of an album and more like a resume of different styles. And 2) it's too short! But there's a lot of really great moments here and I think Ela Minus has potential to make incredible albums. Definitely one to watch.

One tries to engage and appreciate but finds precious little to connect to – basically nothing in the slippery, glimmery and superficial soundings. So, forgettable, basically, even though it has clear ambition to seriousness, to aesthetic significance. Dimery may need a new job if he finds this anything beyond dull and derivative.

I think this is the first albums here that genuinely sounds new and different. The first track is immense. Not entirely sure about the vocals/lyrics though.

We didn’t deserve to lose fetch the bolt cutters for this.

Prior to this project, I never purposefully sought out electronic music. I can’t wait to go back to that. Nothing against the artists. The genre just does nothing for me.

The personalized theme to the album is commendable, for this dance pop/electronic genre. Should it be on the list? Will it stand the test of time?

Okay, I like it, but only like it. Don't have to hear it before I die. In fact, some of it I don't even like.

There was a lot of creativity on this record, and as far as electronic-leaning music goes, this was better than a lot of what we've listened to. A 3.5, but it gets the lower rating by the sheer weight of how uninspired I am by all this technology-infused art.

Yeah, not bad. Not earth-shattering either. But it was spacey and groovy and funky. It often reminded me of The Knife. I'm glad I heard it.