They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

Strano

Noise-rock in the typical camp of 'just because you can doesn't mean you should'. Credit where credit's due: I appreciate that the album has a strong vision and is trying something new. The lack of focus ends up wrapping around into making an album where each track feels very unique. Plus the atmosphere is cool in a lot of places. It's an interesting sonic experiment and I'm usually a big fan of anything esoteric that's really taking the roads less travelled but this didn't hit. fav tracks: Hold Hands and It Will Happen Anyway

The first song didn't convince me at all, so was the second one... and so on. Didn't enjoy this one a bit. It ranges from bad to annoying. The names of the songs are somewhat funny

Let's be honest: this is noise, but it's good noise. There's definitely musicality in it, and I can respect that a lot. The titles for the songs are quite nice. Will I listen to it again? I don't think so. But I cannot in all honesty say I didn't enjoy myself at least a little bit. "Flow My Tears The Spider Said" is pretty solid. 2.5 stars, rounding up.

Sorry, another album I couldn't really enjoy. Immersed in something very uncomfortable, waiting for a few waves of something nice that never arrived.

Det va helt ok, men det va nok albumtittelen æ likte best, kanskje.

Always fun to read positive reviews of generally disliked albums that are just like “I guess SOME people can’t appreciate music that SUCKS” Interesting to hear a lot of these songs go from unlistenable to okay as the instrumentation coheres but there are diminishing returns.

Kind of a mess I like the energy, probably not the best thing to listen to first thing in the morning while trying to work

★★½

I love Liars, but I would recommend listening to "Drum's Not Dead" as an essential album over this. It is an interesting example of a complete left-turn for a band that was a part of the early 2000s NY-rock revival, but I think they went on to do better, more impactful things. You can start to hear the ideas that they would explore on Drum's Not Dead, most notably on "We Fenced Other Gardens...", but the album is more chaotic and disjointed. Still, I like the band and revisit this album every now and then.

Weird music but not the good kind.

Tää oli aika skeida levy. Aikamoista kakofoniaa. En jaksanut kuunnella kuin puolet ja oli pakko lopettaa...

Dark grimey stuff emphasizing dissonance and discord, deconstructing the synthy indie dance punk music of the era by running it through an industrial shredder and attempting to recompose the remainder.

Really not my jam.

Wow. This was dreadful. Was this a witchcraft-themed performance or a ritual on some deserted island? Whatever it’s aiming for, it completely misses the mark. It's a mess.

Unique and different does not always mean that it's good. This is absolute garbage and I learned nothing from this experience. Over 100 albums into this, and I pray that I don't have anything worse than this one. Dear God, no.

This was a really interesting experimental album. I love a lot of the lo-fi production on it, the atmosphere and the odd percussion they employed throughout. I don't know how often I'll come back to this, as I feel I need to be in a certain headspace for it, but I certainly enjoyed it. 3/5

Random noise generator. 1/5

Not my kind of music at all — so the review score is very subjective.

It's unfortunate that this was the album chosen for Liars. their Spotify bio says every album is different/ they're constantly reinventing themselves. Unfortunately, I'll never know what they're capable of because I had to sit through this dumb abstract painting of an album.

Do not listen to this album as background music whilst you're trying to do some spreadsheeting.

I really enjoyed the experimental noise rock sound coupled with the loose concept album surrounding witchcraft and witch trials. A bit of fun and the soundscape was amazing through a headset! Best: Steam Rose from the Lifeless Cloak Worst: Flow My Tears, the Spider Said

Just noise

Horrible. Nothing redeeming about this album.

Worst thing I have ever heard

I'm not giving it a 1. And I understand those who think any rating above a 1 is being unrealistically generous. This is a weird album with tracks that are white noise-adjacent. It's kinda pretentious and smarmy. Still, I can somewhat respect it. Like it sucks to listen to, but interestingly?? Y'know, like it doesn't sound good, but it's intentional. So, respect.

I like how experimental obscure music finds its way into this list. It was an interesting listen but i would prefer something more ... idk, coherent and shaped than this. still, it was fun to listen

No notes for this one other than… what the fuck was that? I'm going to draw a line under it and assume I'm not edgy enough to get it.

3.9

Unlike (apparently) the majority of users here, I don't hate this. A Williamburg hipster band moves into the woods to record a noise rock (which is not nearly as noisy as you'd expect) album about German witch trials. Yeah, ok, it's kind of pretentious and clearly not made with the intent of going platinum. But try not to take it too seriously. It's quirky and weird and pretty fun. As another reviewer said, it helps to imagine a campy coven of witches dancing to this, like Halloween decorations come to life. Look, this is never going to be a favorite on the generator, but it deserves a bit more love than it's gotten so far. It's unlikely to be one that I'd return to often, but I enjoyed the refreshing weirdness of the concept.

Just because someone has to actually come up with 1001 albums does not mean that just any album should be added

this was pointless noise to me

Thought it was pretentious shit at first. 40 mins later I still found it pretentious, but less shit. It grows on you.

What the actual F

Nope.

Really interesting and varied sounds. I was never bored

Liars are one of them bands where I obsess over one record then don’t dive deeper for a while. The Apple Drop was probably my favourite record from 2021, and I do prefer that ‘era’ of Liars to this, but this is still really good. Like a arty 00s post punk/new wave indie version of Swans. That was a mouthful. A bit noisey, chaotic, dark. There is a lot of noise, but I think it adds to it in a way, especially as it goes on. Love em or hate em, their (or his, I think) career is as varied as they come. This is totally different to The Apple Drop, which was totally different to Mess, and again to Drums Not Dead. All while still being Liars. I think that takes some doing! Strong 4.5 for me

Sort of a lo fi noise rock klaxons, reminded me of that band black eyes more than anything. The foundations of some of these songs are quite good, I'm a fan in general of messy sounding post-rocky stuff. They didn't really build the songs up in any way though, like they'd decided that sounding weird and unsettling was enough. So not bad, but definitely not good. 2.5 but more a 2.

Achieved their aim of making an album nauseating to listen to. Really didn't know what was going on - both ominous and kind of dull at the same time. Not at all for me.

Hadn't heard of these and had no idea what to expect. Three cover made me think it might be punk, twas not! We've had another "noise rock" on the list I think. Dracula mountain. I much preferred that. This was a bit much for me, although there was parts I thought were ok, just not enough of them. I think 2.5. is not as bad as a lot of these reviewers suggest but I couldn't really get on board with it

De la musique bien... spéciale ? Mais bonne ! J’avais déjà écouté (et très beaucoup apprécié) un autre de leurs albums (Sisterworld, plus récent que celui-ci) et, malgré que c’est un peu plus expérimental, c’est une écoute très satisfaisante.

The album grew into itself as it went along, but in the end, not my cup of tea.

3 - surprisingly enjoyed this

eins bis zwei

Eksperimentell drit.. nei takk

20 seconds in and I knew it was going to be shit.. I stopped listening after a few songs cause they’re just all equally shit. Somehow manages to be super noisy and annoying but also without any drive or passion behind the music.

did not listen

Not for me mate, no puedo pasar dlel tercer tema

Idk that I'll ever listen to it again, but I appreciate that it exists. I love the weirdness and the witchcraft themes.

Listens: 2 Standout Tracks: Flow My Tears The Spider Said I recognized this album... I had seen it on the bottom 20 global stats page :( I kind of wish the Global Stats page (specifically the Bottom 20) didn't exist, or a bottom 20 album was somehow only revealed after you've listened to it. It both consciously and probably unconsciously biases people's reviews of albums. I have now listened to 4 of the current bottom 20. Two of them I rated higher than the average, and one of them lower. This album wasn't a 1. There are definitely other albums I have hated much more than this album, but there's not many redeeming qualities here. Make no mistake, this album was bad. It deserves to be on lowly rated. I don't know if it should be on the list. Perhaps if I read the blurb in the 1001 Albums book the author might explain the why or what the cultural significance is. I know that I can think of better albums and artists that aren't here that could replace this. When I was listening, all I could think of (besides please make it stop) was Brick from Anchorman screaming LOUD NOISES! There's a lot of dissonance going on, only maybe one or two songs had anything resembling a rhythm or cohesive musical structure. There's barely anything that you could really, truly consider singing. It was more like moaning, grunting, huffing, barking, chanting, etc. On the plus side, it was consistent: across the tracks, conceptually and also consistently bad, so that's something, I guess. I also enjoy long album and track names. Very Modest Mouse-esque.

No. Just no. I made it through 3 songs and that was enough. Fuck this noise, the band that made it, and anyone who likes it. I swear, I'm over 10 days running of absolute garbage on this list since my last halfway decent album. 1001 Albums...maybe 25 or so that are worth listening to. I think this whole project is a big fucking joke to see how much of our time they can waste.

I kinda liked the bit with the birds but the half an hour of moaning before put me off a bit.

Choosing this album over Drum's Not Dead is the equivalent to choosing With the Beatles and leaving out Revolver.

Unlistenable

Dur

6.5/10 Interesting. At times even enjoyable. Highlights: Flow My Tears the Spider Said Broken Witch Hold Hands and It Will Happen Anyway

wish the album drowned... a mess, all over the place

Vähän luisui sormien välistä tämä levy. Häiritseviä repiviä soundeja ainakin oli! 2/5

Vähän epäonnistuneempaa kokeilua.

Nah. This is bad. This ain’t good fam. I get the meaning and it’s important but the music isn’t good… it isn’t pushing the message home.

An album that I can only imagine was written to summon a demon. The lyrics were wild - however the melodies not an entire miss. Not sure I understood the concept of the album - except they liked witches and magic. Oh and that they want to be a horse

How do I say I don’t like this and not sound like ‘that’ guy…I guess ultimately I just found it a little boring? I’ve heard sound collages before. I’m not sure what this brought to the table that was new.

Is this some sort of sick joke?

cool experimental

This was very haunted. Utterly odd, and also utterly compelling. I don't know how often I would choose to listen again, but this is the kind of thing musicians should be doing. Going to a creepy cabin in the woods and making music like this.

It hurt my ears.

What in the actual fuck :|

More noise than rock

Pretty unique. Definitely enjoyed this.

It's creative but not artistic.

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned is definitely an album that's different from the pack but not in a good way at all. Everything about this album feels like it was written by a 14 year old who just learned about creepypastas (which is technically true seeing as a lot of this album was inspired by the legends of The Brocken) The main issue is that all of these songs lack any real structure and just feel like the band just throwing everything they can at the wall to be weird and hardly any of it working. Even some of the better songs on this album just go on for far longer than they need to with silence or ambient noises that add nothing. It might not be as abrasive as some of the other terrible albums but it is still in that club of terrible albums. Best Song: Flow My Tears The Spider Said Worst Song: Broken Witch

someone said NIN but goofy and now I can't un hear it.

Enjoyed this one, it was jagged and messy and contemplative and weird.

Strange

This is weird as heck

Yeesh… I’m always expecting the worst when these noise rock records show up and the listening experience is almost always the same. I guess the only merit I can give this album is the fact that it follows the theme of witchcraft all throughout. You don’t see that concept brought to life in music too often. But sonically, it just wasn’t that interesting to listen to. I think a 2 is more than fair with all of that being said.

Not bad...

Actually interesting music, unexpected from this site.

You remember those old DirecTV ads where they talk about how some people like drinking spoiled milk, camping in poison ivy, getting a paper cut or having their arm trapped in a vending machine? Yeah, listening to "They Were Wrong, So We Drowned" is like all of those things. It's brutally awful. If you like sitting in gum or being rammed by a shopping cart, well, maybe you disagree

Labiau potyris, nei kažkas, ką klausytumeisi dėl malonumo. Tuo metu tikriausiai labai įdomu buvo.

the sound of wasted time

We know that a list is never an absolute truth and is meant more as an illustrative, dogmatic exercise, but this project often goes far beyond any reasonable limits… for example, highlighting this kind of trash at the expense of so much great music out there. It’s absolutely unbelievable how every single second of this album must have been relevant to a mere handful of people. Lamentable. I still have a year left to finish this, this one must be around number 600, and that really discourages me… this kind of garbage only makes us waste our time.

Noisy loud discordant triumph

This pissed me off

Nah

Seeing that this album has so many low ratings is honestly upsetting. It’s definitely not something everyone will vibe with, and I totally get that, but given how much I love stuff like early Sonic Youth and Model/Actriz, this album just CLICKS for me. It’s noisy, rhythmic, controlled chaos, and that’s what makes me love it.

Very crazy listen for a few reasons... sonically it's wild, but the influence is crazy. Sounds very, very similar to Animal Collective's "Sung Tongs" (also 2004) and turns out they're both from the same NYC music scene. This album is a direct predecessor for Radiohead's "The King of Limbs" - - the first 2 tracks "Bloom" and "Morning Mr. Magpie" are direct copies of certain parts or beats from Liars. There aren't many things that Radiohead sounds like but this is definitely one of them (Radiohead is waaaay better but they did rip this off).

Too noisy. I couldn't make it.

Most of the songs have some annoying three note phrase repeated for forever, but it also feels like it's trying to be artsy and experimental. Whatever it was going for, it failed

Ok

Hated it at first but grew on me. Not terrible. Actually kinda cool. 2.75

I've seen this lot live. It's not great, willfully abrasive throughout and I was glad it finished.

Sick

Surprised I'm ambivalent on this one, because noise rock stuff tends to be up my alley. Most of the songs just feel repetitive in a way that loses my interest, but I will say starting at Hold Hands and It Will Happen Anyway, things get interesting. They Took 14 For the Rest of Our Lives had an uneasy repetitiveness that was cool. Good album. Will probably listen again sometime.

Ahah va niquer ta mère

It’s a rare day when I’ve never even heard of the artist that the algorithm has delivered to me, but today is one of those. Liars, it turns out are a noise rock band and one that to my ears take influence from the. Lever Underground with a long, repetitive , weird jamminess to a lot of their songs, only it’s sped up and gives it all a tribal feel. I’m not quite sure why this is on the list. It was averagely received at the time and its critical reappraisal has also been average. In fact the only notable thing about it seems to be that it’s on this list. I thought it was ok but more of a curiosity than something I’d return to.

с ума можно сойти пока прослушаешь это

# Album Name: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned # Artist: Liars # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Fuck me dead. Like really. This was absolutely dog shit. I imagine they play this stuff at torture camps. Dreadful. # Top Tunes: # Would I listen to it again? Only if my mother in law was in the same room.

Really enjoyed this in all its weird glory. Will listen again

This album is more of noise than rock, to begin with. It's not that I don't like noise at all, some albums of that genre are interesting but... It's not my thing (at all). As for this album, it's repetitive and uninteresting most of the time. There are only two songs that are, at least, decent. It's not that they are actually great but at least there's something there. And one of them is the last song. As for the rest... I don't care.

Not for me

This album is a photo negative of something I would expect Modest Mouse to put out. Weird but not in a good or interesting way.

Glitchy, noisy, early 2000s alternative.

They have their own sound, which is impressive, but the creepiness becomes repetitive after a while.

I hated this until I didn’t. By the end maybe a little bit into it. But overall “noise rock” is an apt description and not for me.

This is a tough one, because it's not an accessible thing - very much not. But I am the kind of music enjoyer that loves experimental stuff like this, plus I've been listening to quite a lot of older Swans recently aaand today I just happily happened to be in a mood pretty much perfect for this experimental, apparently fiasco that is They Were Wrong, So We Drowned... As I am writing this review, Liars' sophmore album has a gorgeous average of 2,11/5 rating on 1001 Albums. And I am not surprised. It's not a thing for everyone, it can exhaust, it can bore, it can make an instant "what the fuck" pop up in your brain but I actually really enjoyed it. Not to the point of saving this album for later and coming back to it, but I did enjoy it a lot, and I am glad this list also has records like this. But to be fair, I am kinda surprised the creators decided to put Liars here but there is no Swans album in offcial list, while their albums - of a very similar genre and feel - were way more influential and feel like something that should really be listened to. Well, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned will stay with me as a pleasant, crazy memory for now, and I feel generous enough today to give it an unpopular rating of 4/5 stars. Thank you.

I just don’t really hear much in the way of songs or melody on albums like this. The whole thing just leaves me pretty flat.

Noise rock and a challenging listening that pays off for the expanded mind listener.

dat was terug een verrassing... het is geen Sonic Youth of Boredoms, maar het komt in de buurt...

Solid 1, pure noise!

Very interesting. Some cool rhythmic ambience mixed with some wild songs. Don’t think I got it all with one listen. Will have to revisit.

O primeiro disco verdadeiramente experimental que a lista me entregou até então. Outros álbuns flertavam com o experimental, utilizando de um elemento ou outro pouco ortodoxo, mas este disco em específico veste sua esquisitês nas suas mangas. Não é ao todo ruim. Lendo as reviews daqui fica claro a polarização causada pela sua sonoridade nada típica. Parece que ou você odeia ou você ama o que ouve. Eu estou bem no meio da escala. Eu gostei de muitas das idéias e da execução de tais idéias expostas aqui, mas também achei que faltou um pouco de garra. Eu gosto de música experimental, e gosto de ouvir coisas que me surpreendem. Prefiro bem mais do que ouvir um disco que não me faz sentir nada. A instrumentalização é engajante, Wikipedia descreve o disco como tribal e eu consigo entender o porquê. É uma apta descrição do seu som, casando o primitivo com o barulhento. Umas passagens dronísticas aqui e ali, é um disco que te desafia a manter a atenção e não viajar no universo que ele próprio tece e constrói. Mas eu achei o resultado final um tanto quanto morno. Parece que ele não vai pra lugar nenhum com as trilhas que desbrava. Por mim, qualquer direção mais extrema serviria, tanto pro lado melódico quanto pro lado abrasivo. Mas o morno me deixou com tesão por mais. Quem sabe na próxima? 3.5/5

not so bad but wtf

what the hell is this? Not in 100.001

A very cool experimental album. Very innovative and necessary for the ongoing progression of music. But, like John Cage, it is rarely enjoyable. In the spectrum of experimental to enjoyable, this album leans on the experimental too often. I find that early Pink Floyd leans the other way. 2.5/5

Meh

That was bollocks

Bad

Interesting album. Love the clash-iness however given the experimental nature of this, something felt lacking and could have been pushed a bit further. Despite the obvious racket, it still felt a little too tied together and pretty and I wanted more mess. Waited for The Song to make an appearance but it never did. Fave track - there's always room on the broom.

Unpolished nine inch nails / radiohead wasn't awful! But that doesn't mean I liked it!

For me, if music is described as noise, that’s not a good thing.

I saw these guys a lot back in the day. This shit hasn’t really aged all that well. Either that, or my patience has waned in the last 20 years.

Um. Am I about to be interrogated by the Gestapo? If so, I'll tell you anything. Just make it stop.

Why are we here?

I wouldn't say I DISLIKED this, but it's not something I would seek out again. I almost gave up after the first song but glad I stuck it out because I actually started to find it interesting about half way through.

Yeah...I don't get it. Made it through 2 tracks.

i don't dislike this bc it's noise rock, i just think it's pretty boring noise rock

Listening to this in the hotel room I already suspected was haunted really enhanced the experience.

Uhhh… ———————————— My non-musician scoring system. 5 - Love it. Would play anytime, buy, see live… 4 - Good music. 3 - Average playlist. Depends on time and setting. 2 - I can’t listen to any whole song(skipped ahead on all of them). 1 - No.

Why? Why? WHY? This is the musical equivalent of having a flaming bag of dog shit flung on your porch.

Cool concept, but nearly unbearable to listen to. 2 stars.

From the genre tags, the year of release, and the long track titles, I expected to like this a whole lot more. It’s not bad by any means - despite the large aversion that people on the 1001 generator site seem to have to anything remotely experimental. There’s this vague theme of witch trials, which is great as I studied them for my Early Modern History A level. Images of the dark sabbats ‘neath Pendle hill and the infamous scale of Salem come to mind. But the music itself is just OK for the most part. It feels like something that, no matter how different from regular rock it is, has been done before. There’s constant twinges of Mute records label-mates Nick Cave and earlier iterations of Swans, with none of the fresh flair that they brought in the 80s. It’s experimental in the sense that the sounds are dissonant and the vocals / lyrics are strange, but not in the sense that the ‘experiment’ here yielded any results.

What the fuck was this? 54 minutes of bullshit. No wonder they've got a million albums, anyone can toss this nonsense together. Why is this "alternative' and why is this on a list of albums people should listen to? This isn't creative. This isn't music. There are no hooks, no chorus, it's just ambient fucking noise. Glad I got to "Suggest Less" from the music app. Get this shit the fuck out of my ears. Pointless drivel is what this is.

Quirky and noisy, and a welcome relief to hear some innovative music after 92 painful minutes of Van Morrison. Not all of it hits the mark but firing so many glitchy/noisy tunes some of them are going to miss the mark. Would be a buzz to see live.

This album is definitely not for me. I just don't find this style of music to be pleasant at all personally. I won't say it's bad outright because I don't know enough about the genre/message to give an opinion other than I don't like it sound-wise.

Fantastic surprise. Not nearly as off putting or challenging as some of the pearl-clutchers in here would have you believe. Reminds me of a more experimental Radiohead in places, and that’s a good thing.

This felt like an anxiety attack.

I guess I just don't like noise rock

I usually hate this kind of experimental shit. It's just tasteless and really doesn't require that much musical ability. This reminds me a lot of Throbbing Gristle, Kollaps, etc. Industrial music isn't music. But this is a very listenable album from a genre I hate. I didn't mind this at all honestly. I did quite like There's Always Room On The Broom, They Don't Want Your Corn,

Very much up its own ass and not very good or even amusingly bad. A 1 feels harsh but I really can't think of anything of merit to praise this with

Very odd, often grating album. There were some sections of some songs that I did get around, particularly on the second half. I didn’t like the vocals at all. I enjoyed the drums on ‘We Fenced Other Gardens With the Bones of Our Own’ I vibed with ‘Read the Book That Wrote Itself. ‘They Took 14 for the Rest of Our Lives’ had some cool sounding parts, interesting guitar work. For me this album doesn’t quite justify its inclusion in the list.

The worst thing any off-genre album can be is boring. Listening to this I wish I'd rated throbbing gristle and kollaps higher, even if they were an unorthodox and at times uncomfortable listen, at least they were doing something interesting. This was a drudge of an album.

This is like early Sonic Youth is they were somehow even more mid and also 30 years late. The fact that this got slapped with the genre, Noise Rock, is insulting, just cause the band their copying helped to create the genre doesnt mean you get to use it too. 5/10

At the time of writing this is the seventh worst rated album on the website. I don't think that's fair. I don't think this is a great album, but I really don't think this is as bad as some of the forgettable 90s slop I have been subjected to. Whereas a lot of albums seem to have no mission statement or raison d'etre other than to make money, this one wants to create a vibe. The vibe is being sent home in a taxi from a night out by your friends because you are a mess and you're fighting off the urge to vomit while late night top 40 radio plays. It is an interesting experience. I find it hard to write my thoughts about it, outside of what I described two lines ago, I really don't have any particularly strong feelins towards this album. It is certainly evocative and I can appreciate it for being art that gets a reaction out of me, but I don't think I will listen to this again. Highlights: We Fenced Other Gardens with the Bones of Our Own

Ok. So when you decided to make noise rock, did you intend to make it so that it sounded like someone being water boarded. You’d have to be either comatose or suspended in gel filled matrix pod to not realize how much you will HATE this SHIT. This AWFUL collection of songs made for torture is about as ANNOYING as a restaurant filled with screaming children. I’d blame WITCHCRAFT as to why this exists but do we really want to blame witches with this hellscape of music?

I hate this god awful shit garbage. It was annoying and gives witchcraft a bad name. I would rather listen to 3 hours of shoegaze rock than this terrible mess. I want my 41 minutes back.

Noise rock ain't my bag, baby. Noise for noise sake isn't worth the pile of shit they recorded this on. My brain just isn't wired to understand how this or anything avant-garde is enjoyable. Also, hate, awful, annoying, and witchcraft

Not really into noise rock, but this isn't bad. I found some entertainment in it, but it's still not really for me.

I can find something to enjoy in almost anything. This sucks completely, however.

Not the kind of thing you’d want to unwind to, but I actually enjoyed this as an art project. Very scary vibes. The sounds really put you on edge. Very industrial. Still, this is mostly obscene from start to finish. ⭐️⭐️

I will find a way to be a little positive. The concept of this album is great, there are some great instrumental risks and choices here but much like blues explosion they fall flat more than they translate to good song ideas. Killer attitude and fuck you about this album that i find appealing. There is not a single song on here that I would ever listen to again for fun. The vocal performance is just so bland and boring over these hit or miss Instrumentals. If you handed this album vocal-less to Isaac Brock this could be a heater. Not feelin this one even though I really wanted to. Album art is sick though.

"Stop daddy, stop. That's not even funny. Why would you listen to that". My review was going to be about a New York socialite party, eating fried chicken off naked hobos, while watching artist paint modern art using midgets as paint brushes. Alas my daughter somes it up better.

Not deserving of the 1001 list

Absolutely not my style. Couldn´t finish this record. A firt one for me.

Noise rock. Meh. It faded into the background. If I want music to sound incidental I will just listen to nature.

I've gotta give them an A for effort. But . . .

I feel like if your opening track reminds me of my morning subway commute (in a bad way), you’re not even trying. I suppose I am of a somewhat conservative mindset when it comes to assessing music - it is art but it is also entertainment. You have to balance these two things to capture a listener.

Never heard of this band/album before, and didn’t know what to expect. Certainly never saw noise rock coming! Every so often in college I would find myself at a friend-of-a-friend’s experimental noise show. It was always in some forgotten room of an industrial building with cement floors, the smell of PBR and BO wafting through the stale air. Some rich kids with greasy hair and threadbare undershirts would fuck around with pedals and amps and synths and there would be cables running everywhere and the sound of fuzzy crumpled paper and dial-up aol static harassing my ear drums at unreasonable volume. I didn’t get it. Why? Where did this come from? Am I supposed to like this? Does everyone else here like this? Is this music? I would ask myself. This album explains SO MUCH, and that experience I now understand to be very of its time. Probably will never listen again, but 3 for the millennial college nostalgia, introducing me to the most listenable example of the genre I’ve ever heard, and serving as an actually not terrible workout playlist at the gym.

This shit was weird as hell. First listen I thought it sucked. Read up on it and listened again. It's a concept and well enough executed. Not my jam but not bad.

This was a pretty quick hell no from me. As soon as I read it was going to be noise rock, it had an uphill battle to convince me to listen to a full album of that genre… As expected, I bailed about song 3. It was grating on me, and eventually I couldn’t take the noise anymore.

9/10/25. Interesting. A couple songs toward the middle and end that paid off. Challenging listen!

Noisy

2.5 We Fenced Other Gardens With the Bones of our Own Hold Hands and it will Happen Anyways

Good time. Not as noisy as I was expecting from "noise" rock :P

experimental and alternative but its listenable, not my taste but interesting nonetheless

Broken Witch - 6/10 Steam Rose From The Lifeless Cloak - 6/10 There’s Always Room On The Broom - 6/10 If Youre a wizard then why do you wear glasses? - 5.5/10 We Fenced Other Gardens With The Bones of Our Own - 7.5/10 They Don’t Wan’t Your Corn, They Want Your Kids - 6.5/10 Read The Book That Wrote Itself - 6/10 Hold Hands And It Will Happen Anyway - 5/10 They took 14 for the rest of our lives - 6/10 Flow my tears the spider said - 6/10 60/100

Not another one. This sentence from the Wikipedia article sums it up. ‘The album takes the form of a very loose concept album concerning witchcraft upon The Brocken (a mountain) during Walpurgis Night, and tales of witch trials in the area around the Harz Mountains in Germany.’ A long long way from misty mountain hop. Or March of the black queen. Let alone sunshine of your love, seven nation army, deacon blues, aqualung, Pompeii by bastille , shake it off … Just unknowing junk. Someone made the not unreasonable point that a bunch of us complain about another Neil young or Morrissey album and then we complain when something different like this comes along. I can see where they’re coming from. But this is so unappealing to me. (Also who cares that he studied under Mike Nock at the Sydney Conservatorium as per his Wikipedia page? Mike’s a nice guy a brilliant drummer and a great teacher but if that’s all you have to say about your drumming, not ‘built a career in doing worthwhile music’ then perhaps you’re not ready for a career …

You know...no let me think this through. I just need to gather my thoughts. It's not that it is art for art's sake it's more that I had to experience it. Where is anyone playing this? For what purpose? This is not entertaining. Stop it. Just stop this nonsense. This is just ridiculous. Stop it. If anyway out there is reading this, tell the guy who is doing this list to just stop it.

Well, I was expecting a terrible slog with Liars, and what I read about it before I started did not bode for anything promising... a pretentious Brooklyn-based noise band deliberately turning away from the catchy (and niche-ly popular) dance-punk of their first record to produce an experimental concept album on witchcraft. Some ominous comparisons to Kid A (which is when Radiohead lost the plot, in my humble opinion). I got this on a Friday, and actively postponed listening to it for two days, because I was _sure_ this was going to be rubbish -- I mean, just look at those song titles. But when I actually listened to it, I really dug it. Experimental noise rock, yeah! I can hear the Radiohead comparisons, but this has more spit and venom in it. It reminds me of Swans or Einstürzende Neubauten or Sonic Youth or some of that more rock-based industrial of the 80s. I dig it. It gets real loud when it gets loud. It's brainy and creepy and spacious and noisy and weird, but they don't forget to rock when they need to (Radiohead, please take note. You seem to have forgotten that very important lesson). I listened to their previous record, They Threw Us All In A Trench and Stuck A Monument On Top, and I dig that too. I even started to find their album and song naming funny and charming. I think I have actually gone over to the dark side with this one. I should _hate_ this, but I really don't. I am enamoured. 3.5 stars, rounding up for being a surprise.

I wanna be a horse

very experimental, not really my taste

That is close to the point which I don't consider as music anymore

“I no longer want to be a man. I want to be a horse. Men have small thoughts. I need a tail.” Perhaps Liars should have been granted this wish, then we would probably have been spared the next 40 minutes... Apparently there really is a target audience for this “music,” so I gave it a second try and discovered that further back on “They Were Wrong So We Drowned” there are actually occasional hints of song structures. You have to imagine it a bit like Gregorian chants, except that most of the choir isn't singing, but rhythmically banging on whatever is available—kitchen utensils or furniture, for example. It's certainly innovative in some way, but you really don't need to hear it before you turn into a horse.

I’ll drown myself if I have to listen to this again.

I thought I made it a lot further than I did before I quit. JFC, this was bad.

I am into noise rock and concept albums, so this was a great find for me personally. Listened to loud enough, it started already ringing in my ears and this is a great starting point ;) If you read about the origin story of the concept, it becomes clear that it is rather on the superficial side of concepts. But while being dense musically with the tribally driving drums, this gives the record a fun touch, which you can already tell from the track titles. Bonus points as I am living <200km away from the Brocken! Highlights: The album is consistent in its weirdness, but I liked the middle part with „We fenced other gardens with the bones of our own“ and „They don‘t want your corn, they want your kids“ the most!

Album name and song titles are somewhat interesting and one hear traces of innovation and originality but it's awfully clangy and largely tuneless – basically, grating to no worthy purpose. Not many candidates for song of the summer to be found here. It sounds like music that could threaten the psyche of impressionable youngsters. Feels too precise and controlled, too, which adds to the near palpable tension. Comparisons to Radiohead are strained, to put it mildly.

I am down with experimental music. And industrial vibes. And, well, NOISE. But They Were Wrong just doesn’t seem particularly . . . mature. The lyrics have something(?) to do with witchcraft. Even if I were inclined to, I don’t think I could follow the concept. Worse, though, the sound just isn’t compelling. I’ve listened to the album twice now, but I haven’t found much I’d ever want to engage with again. Maybe a few parts of “We Fenced Other Gardens with the Bones of Our Own?” Maybe not even that.

Give me this over the Adeles of this world any day of the week. The last track is particularly cool.

Top 10 lowest on the site damn. twas weird 50/100

Elmo rock. They Don't Want Your Corn is the best song.

A surprising noise record that leans into the sort of “sleaze-revival” of disco at the advent of the 21st century.

I like odd music but didn’t dig this

Too serious

I stopped going to Liars shows around 2007 or so - still loved the records through Mess - but the audience yelling out WE’RE DOOMED! WE’RE DOOMED! was always a highlight. My contempt for folks who call this “pretentious” is undefeated. So what if you don’t like something? I hate a lot of stuff and try to suss out why that is the case without relying on that silly bro intellectual shorthand.

music for an art show where the art & background music are meant to be offputting both the music and art show are offputting in a way that's cooler than you want to admit music: regarded expressionlessly. (⌐■_■)

I’m pretty deep into this list now, it’s time to start thinking about it in the big picture. When an album has an average over 4, it’s usually an Accepted Classic, which often means it’s slightly overrated, but will usually still be good. When the average hovers around 3, it’s usually going to be a boring album (which, in my opinion, should be a 2 at most). When the average is around 2? Baby that’s the good stuff. That’s the stuff that is too off the wall for anyone who gave a 5 to Dark Side Of The Moon. The most compelling albums on here are around 2 on average. Anyhow. This rocked. It’s so weird and kind of dumb. I was almost at a 5 but that last song is too Dark Carnival to me. Bands shouldn’t do that. Never comes off well.

Just an awful lot of awful noise

3/4

This is getting ridiculous. Obviously this album is really bad but seems as though it made the list because it’s super annoying.

There's groundwork for an interesting album here. But for an album inspired by witch trials and which tries a lot of things, it's also surprisingly boring. The vocals sound emotionless; on the first track the singer drones "blood" a bunch of times - are these witches scary or not? Musically there's a lot of empty space here between the noise that makes me wish there was more happening. There is some cool stuff! But it's very fleeting. An abrasive noise on the 3rd track gives way to a super simple beat. There's a nice vocal melody on the last track that fades into nothing. The 8th and 9th tracks have the most interesting, rhythmic percussion, and the 8th track pairs it with hard hitting noise to create what's easily the best track. But so much of the album is atmospheric without getting any kind of eerieness or dread across, and more engaging moments may have helped.

2.5⭐️/5 [08.23.2025] 01.16.2026

Toilet

The music by defintion is subjective. This was an interesting 40 minutes. I didn't like this at all and tried to understand where the band was coming from and why some people find this good. There were a few moments where I thought I had grasped something, but those were so fleeting that I could not wrap my brain around this album. My teenage daughter came into the room where I was listening to this and confusingly asked what I was listening to. I found myself unable to concentrate on the music, my brain was slowly drowning it out because it was anxiety inducing. The beautiful thing about humanity is we are all our own individual person, and sometime millions of people like the same thing and sometimes only 3 people like it. Is it good, is it bad, no - it just is. (100 Million people listen to Taylor Swift a month on Spotify - I can't stand her music and 46,000 listen to these guys - I would arguably willingly listen to this again over a Taylor album). But if this gets your toes tappin or head bangin, good on ya - but as the wise philospher Austin Powers once said "it's not my bag baby!" And all that to say, this does not belong on any list 1001, 5005, 800000008, no need to hear this. You dig it, great - not anything that needs historical cataloguing. 2.2/10 148/1001

I was never able to get too into Liars. I did like a couple of the albums that came after this one (Drum's Not Dead, Sisterworld, and WIXIW), but I didn't give any of the other ones a chance. This is my first time hearing this album. I like it just fine when it's on, but don't see myself revisiting it. Standout Track(s): Hold Hands and it Will Happen Anyway

Big concept in sound, and it's both loud, abrasive, and quiet. I wanna like this one more, so I have a feeling it will grow on me

what you hear at a festival at 2pm with a crowd smelling of weed and sweat

Pretty amateur but I still sorta enjoyed it

Ridiculous. Noise rock? Just noise, zero rock. This makes me question how valid the 1001 list is.

Fine

Really pleased to have heard this. Clearly a noise record of sorts but somehow it's indie sleazy as well. Feels like a lockdown album. I've bookmarked it for the next pandemic.

High 2 thought id be all over this. i blame the vocalists for failing to win me over

don't like it, too much form me, too much noise

Raw but full of energy and emotion.

What the hell?! What a colossal waste of time; and I say that even after sampling only a minute or so of each “song”. If I could give it a zero score, I would.

Without checking, I guarantee this band and Death Grips are somehow influences of the other... Alright I just checked and Terence Stamp died

It was better than I thought it would be.

Pretty damn good for music for upper class art students

Noise rock huh? Appropriate. Just a lot of noise to me.

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

1st time hearing about this band - meh

Noisy, but not bad.

Somehow I got through the whole thing

The ambition is apparent. A pagan fever dream about witch trials and hysteria. I respect it more than I want to play it. Art score = 4. But here we go 2.

This is not my vibe

At first, I was in for an unsettling experience. Harsh glitches, unsteady beats and strange voices abound in an uncompromising introduction to this bewildering yet bountiful album. Yet as They Were Wrong, So We Drowned unfurled, what laid ahead and beneath was a massive undertaking that was as rewarding as it was headscratching; the often brutal song titles anchoring bizarro experimental rock laced with unlikely dance. Not for the faint-hearted yet the heady do need to be warned.

The worst music I ever heard! This should not exist.

This album was just alright, sorta all over the place and not really that cohesive to me. It felt like very chaotic, but in a overdosing crying out for help sorta way. Maybe that is what they were going for at the time. 4/10.

Me he puesto este álbum mientras dibujaba y en pocas ocasiones he tenido que levantar la cabeza para preguntarme "¿Qué coño estoy escuchando?" Lo cual no estoy muy seguro de si es bueno o malo. De este tipo de música electrónica/ambient super experimental me gustan un par de artistas como Machine Girl. Me ha recordado mucho a su sonido, imagino que ellos se habrán inspirado en este tio a la hora de hacer música. El album está bien y es disfrutable, pero creo que solo lo escucharía de forma pasiva. Más que nada porque hay canciones aqui que me resultan aburridísimas e innecesarias, pero supongo que tiene que ver con que no es un género por el que sienta especial predilección. Algo parecido me pasó cuando escuché por primera vez Kid Zzz de RadiomeduermoHead. Album so ass it made me want to kill myself. Lo de Radiohead era broma, el resto no. 2/5 La portada está guapa

I always like when a band makes music that stretches the definition of what I previously thought music could be. Liars fill their songs here with distorted bursts of demonic noise, droning instruments, off-kilter rhythms that sound almost tribal or maybe possessed, and chanted vocals. It's a weird, creepy trip, but I was along for the ride. It probably falls just shy of making me want to listen to another Liars album anytime soon, but I'd be curious to hear more.

Really cool unpredictable sound. I have a feeling that this band influenced the more modern band IDLES a lot. I definitely enjoyed this, I felt like I was able to both focus on some tracks and also just sit back and either groove or flow with the drone. Solid album that needs more listens!

Not for me.

I am really struggling to find the merit here. I can see the appeal of Captain Beefeater as outsider art, but Liars is not doing anything new and it's painful

Weird, but not good weird

Out of the 392 albums I’ve listened to on this list so far, this one easily lands at the bottom. I couldn’t find a single redeeming quality. Every track is an absolute mess, loaded with obnoxious noise and directionless chaos. It sounds like a group of people trying to make music for the first time and failing miserably. The whole album is grating, pretentious, and downright unpleasant. I actually felt irritated listening to it. If this is what passes for experimental, I want nothing to do with it. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone.

Helt forferdelig, bare støy (bokstavelig talt)

I surprised myself with how much I enjoyed this album. Usually super experimental noise rock stuff doesn't really do it for me but the energy on this album is undeniable. I can only imagine seeing this in a dark and dingy NYC basement bar would seriously blow your mind. Often this genre feels more like performance art than music but I feel like these guys have found the in between.

I’m not familiar with this album, but I am familiar with Drum’s Not Dead, their self-titled, and Sisterworld, which from what I remember were all a bit less experimental and abrasive. I could be wrong though as I haven’t listened to Liars in ages. As with any experimental or noise rock, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned is a bit challenging to listen to, but is rewarding when you give it a chance. Overall, this album was actually pretty fun with the tribal aspects of the drums and the Brocken witch concept. I think I might have to dive back in to Liars music today.

Steam punk

Mediocr

I mean, of course I’m going to love an album with a song titled “If Your a Wizard Then Why Do You Wear Glasses?“ (sic). This is great, weird, experimental stuff with tribal drums, songs about witches and witch trials, and references to the Brocken mountain legends. I’m pretty sure that this will polarise listeners, but I’ll take this over yet another hip hop or 70s yacht rock snooze fest any day.

Ah, that was refreshing. Noise/experimental rock, not boring a single second, exploring different direction, experimenting without losing (totally) the listener (some rhythms and melodies here and there that keep you afloat).

A very raw and industrial record. I wouldn't have found this on my own, so that's what the list is for! 3/5

Gar nicht meins

At least it was experimental

Thoughts before listening: I don't really know much about these guys, but I do remember when their albums were getting touted on music sites. With 49,000 monthly listeners on Spotify they don't seem to have had all that much staying power though. Probably going to be one of those 00s albums that seemed like a big deal at the time the book was produced, but probably wouldn't stay in on a revision. Review: I think that if I have learned anything from this project its that I'm just a fan of pop music. Sure I may prefer when pop music is filtered through the lens of loud, distorted guitars, but ultimately its still pop music with familiar song structures, catchy melodies, etc. The albums that tend to annoy me the most on here are the techno, noise rock, krautrock, etc albums that mess with that formula. This album is full of those elements that turn me off. Its a very tough listen, from the music to the lyrics, and while I was certainly not bored with this album, I wasn't enjoying myself all that much either. 2-stars

I can't believe a label actually spent who knows how much in studio costs to make something less listenable than I can in my bedroom alone with nothing but a DAW and a mouse

album is garage band-y. not rlly singing as much as it is speaking and very sfx focused. experimental, which is a style that i don’t typically like. least fav song: steam rose from the lifeless cloak. fav song: they don’t want your corn they want your kids. overall, 2/10. has talent, has potential, but i did not care for it.

Listening to this album is an act of self harm. It doesn’t work on any level and has nothing whatsoever to recommend it.

Nope, can't do it. This sounds like two kids who got a copy of "the dummies guide to music production", gave it a scan, said to themselves "cool, we can do proto -industrial jazz ", and then broke all roles in the book. I've heard better lyrics at freshman night at the student union beat poetry reading circle. Why is this shit on the list? This is utter garbage. I finally found an album that makes me WANT to listen to Kid Rock. Dear God. My rating. -10/5.

Oh, boy, and here we go opening August with one of the bottom ten albums on the entire website! Been a hot second since my group's gotten one of these... I think the last one we got was DUCK STAB!/BUSTER & GLEN? Goodness. Well, I guess it's about time we got to take another peek at the albums the people on this website hate by average. Now, look, I get why it's got a 2.1 average, I really do. I mean, I'm not gonna go off on a tangent accusing the users of hating anything that isn't 60's or 70's pop rock, 'coz, like... This is absolutely not for everyone. I mean, frankly, it's for such a small group of people, I'm not surprised that even in critical circles this thing has only gotten a 64/100 average on Metacritic. You introduce this album to the average Joe or Jane, they're not gonna be able to make heads or tales of the noise, freeform beats and unusual, sometimes discordant melodies (if you can even call them "melodies," anyway). I don't blame people for rating this thing so lowly, or I'm not accusing them of "not being able to open their minds" or whatever. Some people are just never gonna gel with this. What about me, though? Did I? Well, I think for my experience, it helped to keep this album's... Y'know, rather loose concept in mind. See, apparently it's about a bunch of witches gathering on a mountain called The Brocken during Walpurgis Night... Or something? I'unno. Basically, I just imagined that I'd accidentally stumbled across a witchcraft ceremony on top of a mountain or in the middle of the woods and that the album is the music they were making as they danced around a fire. Vaguely tribal stuff, I guess? In any case, framing the music in that way did help me understand it and explain a lot of its choices. But does it mean I actually **liked** this album? Well, as long as I kept the image in mind, I didn't... **Hate it**, but... Eh, honestly, I ended up being kind of average on it. I mean, sure, it was a far more interesting listen than any number of random and generic-ass 60's psych or 2000's indie rock albums this list could've given my group, but I'unno. Just because I get what this thing's going for doesn't mean I hafta be too excited about it. Besides a rare few spots, the thing mostly just kinda passed me by. That's the weird thing and most experimental music. I feel like I've got the kind of brain that's particularly attuned to understand this kind of music and hear past a lot of its weirdness to understand what's going on underneath. As a result, however, unless it's particularly egregious (I've sampled that SPY VS. SPY album ahead of time 'coz I was curious, and **oh wow**), more often than not I just end up being kind of bored by it. Like, "Yeah, cool you can do all this weird shit––and? I mean, am I supposed to be impressed by it? I ain't gonna say 'my kid could do that' or anything, largely 'coz I don't have one, but, like... I never understand why I'd listen to this music beyond this list, besides wanting to act like I'm smart because I'm listening to weird music." I mean, don't get me wrong: weird, experimental music has its place. I think it's great that there's people going out there and pushing the boundaries, and I think it's worth listening to. Even if you come out of it absolutely hating it, at least you expanded your horizons. No generic-ass 60's psych album is gonna do that like an album like this will. But on a pure "enjoyment" level, which seems to be how I rate most of these albums... I did more than I didn't, though I doubt I'll ever come back to this. It was something to see the witches dance around on the mountaintop once, and now that I have... I don't need to again. Just what it is.

It's not as bad as some users on here think it is, but it's still kind of unremarkable. Solid 3 Stars.

I’m at a 3.5 that I’ll bump down to a 3. Not deserving of a 2.1 average and a top 10 lowest rating on the site at all – honestly, this is a totally fine album. Abrasive? Sure, a little bit, but even in terms of “noise rock”, I have literally heard more ear-piercing & screechy, manic albums on the list than this. This doesn’t even hit the same level of pure noise as the final 2 minutes “Seasick” did off of “Penance Soiree”, which is still arguably the worst 2 minute stretch I’ve had in the 579 albums we’ve gotten so far. I really can’t figure out why this has a 2.1 on the site other than being scared of the lack of an acoustic guitar or a “traditional” melody, but like… this is a pretty competently produced album. A lot of the musical sensibilities are there, with the instrumentation just swapped out for slightly harsher & more avantgarde stuff. Guitar melodies are more overdriven or synthy, percussion takes on a more breathy & monster-y tone, et cetera. I *DO* think this album slacks on providing good “dressing” for each track (i.e., complimenting the lead melodies with enough instrumentation to fill out the soundscape), and it does leave some of the tracks a little more try than they need to be. That said, I didn’t mind listening to any of this at all, and it’s a solid enough 40 minutes if you’re not as sensitive to the eccentricities of it. So… why am I at a 3.5 bumped down to a 3, then? It’s just not the most compelling album, really. Competent, yes, but in terms of maintaining interest & keeping me engaged, I don’t think that many tracks truly got there. I enjoyed about 7 of the 10 tracks here, but in terms of actually being fully engaged with them all the way through as opposed to just admiring the soundscape, I would say… I dunno, maybe 2 or 3 tracks, at most? This album also has some clear flaws in my brain; not egregious by themselves, but when stacked up, just kill the flow a bit: too much repetition, too many tracks that go just a little too long, & barely any payoffs to the some of the bigger buildups that happen in each track. You can sit there through a long segment that feels like it’s leading to a crescendo that just never shows up, and it kind of deflates the track a bit. If this album were a little tighter, a little shorter, and a little more musically inclined to give those payoffs, I’d definitely be inclined to bump this up to a 4. However, this album just never gets THAT compelling, and all the things it does to try and offset that never really worked for me, no matter how much I mostly enjoyed the sound design & “weird” witchy tone of the album. It’s like sitting through a decent production of a play; nothing’s ever wrong or bad, it’s just not as good as it could be, and it just doesn’t feel as satisfying. It’s certainly not a 2.1 nor is it a top 10 worst album on the site. I’d love to leave it at a 3.5 for my tastes, but I’ve got to bump it down to a 3.

With layers of rhythmic vocals over drum-heavy backing and peppered with electronics and skronky guitar, this album wanders around in the expanse between dance-punk and experimental rock. On the tracks where the band settles into a groove (such as "There's Always Room On The Broom" and "They Don't Want Your Corn, They Want Your Kids"), their bizarre vision takes flight. "Read The Book That Wrote Itself" is an intriguing near-ambient piece and the final track "Flow My Tears The Spider Said" is a tranquil number that brings the album gracefully to a close. However, in between those songs are noisier, less structured tracks that aim more towards the experimental but never really gel.

This is shit.

Seriously it’s just noise. It’s not ‘groundbreaking’.

Superb.

Ne bi nikad ovo izabra od njihovih albuma ali ajde🤣

i'm familiar with a few albums from this group. never heard their earlier work tho Broken Witch - 3/5 Steam Rose From the Lifeless Cloak - 1/5 There's Always Room on the Broom - 2/5 If You're a Wizard Then Why Do You Wear Glasses? - 1/5 We Fenced Other Gardens With the Bones of Our Own - 4/5 They Don't Want Your Corn - They Want Your Kids - 5/5 Read the Book That Wrote Itself - 3/5 Hold Hands and It Will Happen Anyway - 4/5 They Took 14 for the Rest of Our Lives - 3/5 Flow My Tears the Spider Said - 4/5 Average score: 3/5 huh. there were a few songs i thought were good or had potential to be good, but the majority of this album just wasn't for me i'm afraid. the last half was far more tolerable than the 1st at least it's cool to see their sound has improved significantly since. the dark and occult-like theme is kinda fun, as are the extremely long song titles

Sehr anstrengend

I liked how dark and mysterious this album is

I went into this album fully expecting to hate it and I really didn’t. Sure, a lot of it is pretty abrasive and outright noisy, but there’s a surprising variety of things going on here. Occasionally playful and shockingly enough kind of atmospheric in places (e.g. We Fenced Other Gardens With The Bones Of Our Own). Cool uses of distortion. Overall not bad. Not something I think I’ll be revisiting much and I don’t doubt that these guys have better albums (seeing as this is only their second), but I harbour no dislike for it.

i too want to be a horse

This felt like a prank. Annoying nonsense sounds thrown together that I did not need to listen to at any point before I die.

1st song on the album made me want to stop listening to this album. I felt like I was taking a hearing test with all the beeping in the background. I really think if you needed list filler there was better choices than this. Heck, according to fans of this band, this isn't even a record worth mentioning when talking about their best records. Honestly, I would much rather listen to an hour of pure white noise instead of this album. I again wish they had a zero or even negative star rating available. 1 star

first listen definitely interesting didn't love it though

alright noise rock/no wave stuff but not the kind i like

I respect the uniqueness but its just a bit too much

After what I said about not demanding your attention, this album certainly did that. It wasnt all pretty but some parts I really enjoyed and it was a unique sound

hávaðarokk áhrif, svona brúkklín danspönk. margt sem stuðar mig en ekki án sjarma, þarf aðra og fær. 3,5.

Groupe inconnu. L'album est totalement original, mais est très difficile d'accès. Impossible de prévoir où le groupe va nous emmener ! Chaque nouveau morceau est une surprise complète, qui donne envie de découvrir le suivant. Il est par contre très difficile à noter... Je ne pense pas l'ajouter à ma collection, mais je lui donne +2 pour l'expérimentation. =>3/5

Well that was different and unique. It was also just noise. Awful, grating noise.

Why? Stop it.

This doesn't deserve to be as low a rating as it has, sure it's a bit of an acquired taste but nowhere near as bad as some are saying. It's a lot more interesting than The Icarus Line album from the same year that somehow made it onto this list. It's a strong 3 for me.

Of Montreal, but less fun about it

Not really for me.

Probably would give a zero star rating here if I could. Certainly has some interesting elements, and I can appreciate a lot of the raw emotion that seems to be the driving force behind the music. Beside that though this was not a fun or impactful listen for me personally. Fav Track: Hold Hands And It Will Happen Anyway

This is the first album of this list which lands in the top 10 lowest ranked, but judging by the genre tags, I thought I was going to like it. How it turned out? Well... I can say that I didn't dislike it as much as people did here, but I still didn't get a lot of enjoyment out of it. The main problem behind this album is how inconsistent and messy it feels to me. I have this sense that the band had some interesting ideas, but failed to properly execute them. To the previous point I have to add that the production is very rough, which makes this even harder to listen to. If there's something positive I can say about the album,I liked some of the songs, like 'Broken Witch', 'They Don't Want Your Corn, They Want Your Kids' or 'Hold Hands and It Will Happen Anyway'; and I find it interesenting enough to give it 3 stars.

Nope. Not for me.

this is terrible music

If you are going to be experimenting in 2004 try and come up with something actually new rather than rehashing all the dreary experimentation that has come before.

Can confirm, is noise. 2/5

wtf was this?

I did not know that music could induce literal nausea

I appreciate that there is a raw energy to this album, it’s like the sound is straining to get out but then rumbling into deeper, darker noises. There’s a discordant theme throughout so weirdly it does work as an album. However. I think this is all a bit too much for my poor head. I find trying to engage with some of the songs is like trying to do quadratic equations while banging a saucepan perched on your head, and other times the very devil himself is after you. The drums on Read The Book That Wrote Itself and birdsong with eerie banging noises in the background on Flow My Tears the Spider Said will haunt me for a while.

This was like a jack hammer to my brain. It was impossible to work while this was on. I enjoyed slipnot while working so shows I have reasonable capacity to absorb the melody of "noise". At one point it felt like I was having a nervous breakdown. Nails down a black board vibe while being assaulted with yet more sound / feedback / distortion. Its like they deliberatly attempted to use the electronics "fail" state to make music then throw in volume and miss timing for destructive effect. Like a cloud moving over to briefly let the light in I did get glimpses of their musicality and even sounded a little like the chemical brothers at one point. Hold Hands and it will happen - Sounds a bit like Idles as it starts off and some songs like this did appear captivating and punk esk. Certainly potential but I think this album could be better!

I immediately liked the harsh and gritty sound of this album. The sounds are abrasive but it's simple rhythms hold together what initially sounds like chaos in quite a pleasing way. Listening to "There's Always More Space On The Broom" I found myself wishing the vocals were stronger, more forceful, and forward in the mix. I think this was the difference that made "We Fenced Other Gardens..." feel like a more complete and accessible track. By the end of the album I was already planning a repeat listen. It was an interesting and stimulating listen from start to finish and exactly the type of "weird shit but good" I was hoping for when I started this project.

I hate experimental music

Ruglað. Trúi ekki að þetta sé svona góð vinnuplata. Þetta er eitthvað sem ég bjóst aldrei við að fíla.

Gott stöff, Noise rock alltaf hressandi. Ekki heyrt um þessa hljómsveit áður.

Well, I had forgotten where I had heard of this album before. Started listening and immediately knew... this is from the bottom of the global rankings on here. Well deserved honestly. Definitely one of those art rock albums where they try to make it as unlistenable as possible

gave me a headache

2.6

M/v

No thank you.

Kind of a modern day Captain Beefheart with the a bit more rhythmic quality. I will never understand how this makes the list but Tool's Lateralus or Isis' Panopticon is left off. Only interesting thing about this album is the cover art.

Awful but strangely compelling

Ummm…SOOOOO NOT my jam, but I’m certain they’re somebody’s jam.

No. Didn’t NEED to hear this.

not my type

This brings me back to those heady days of early aughts indie music, where you didn't necessarily need to be good, just different, to garner media attention and a record deal. The emperor has no clothes!

This is awful, ear-piercing

Me ha parecido un sonido super interesante.

*no music, merely annoying sounds

Just okay sadly :-( waited a year for anything noise rock to show up on this list and it was a boring album. Wish the guy who made the list had better/more interesting taste, would've loved to see some Jesus Lizard or Shellac

This was interesting, and overall a fun listen. It didn't quite make it to a 5 star album for me but it was close. Why do you all hate anything experimental so much?

Álbum experimental. Roseselsa Quietsea II.

This album sucked

Såkaldt noise-rock - det lever på til det

I tend to not agree with some of the lowest rated albums on this site, and as a fan of this band, I have to concede that this album is not the band's best. That being said, it's not the worst thing either. Some cool ideas that I think they fleshed out more on subsequent records.