Complete Recordings

Complete Recordings is a compilation album by the indie pop band Black Tambourine. It's a collection of the songs they issued earlier on singles and EP's as the band has not created a "real" studio album. To get the full complete collection, you can listen to the Black Tambourine compilation album from 2010. Not that the six additional on that record add much. The album contains well written dream pop songs with a very lo-fi production that gives it a nice do-it-yourself atmosphere. Best songs are "Black Car" and "Throw Aggi Off the Bridge". The album as a whole is short and that makes the statement it makes more focused. It also allows you to give it another spin as it deserves that.

This was fantastic. I've complained that so many albums here are too long, but here I wish this was a little longer. Looking at wiki, they didn't release much but they should have. Some really great shoegaze that wouldn't sound out of place today. My personal rating: 5/5 My rating relative to the list: 5/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

What the hell, this is insanely good. Get them back in the studio and lock the door immediately. So great I went and listened to the extended 40 minute re-release as well. This is very much up my alley, thanks for submitting it. Five outta five.

Quite good shoegaze music. The fact the vocals are so in the background make it kind of mysterious.

Loved this. Absolutely right up my street with the layers of guitars and that slightly hazy, noisy sound. The music itself is brilliant and I can see myself coming back to it. My only criticism is that it’s far too short for an album, although I suppose that’s partly because it’s technically a collection of EPs rather than an album. I just wish there was more of it!

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Black car, Throw Aggi off the bridge

Un disco indie un tanto con connotaciones oscuras o, por lo menos, muy arraigado a su estilo. Alguna canción más melódica que otra. Un poco de guitarreo y de sonido sucio.

Seems fine. 3/5

How can you be mad at a 24 minute album? I'd be all over this, but the vocal production choices bothered me so. Waaaaay in the background

Apparently there was some kind of indie rock scene in Maryland in the 80s/90s? I can't see the appeal here, and it's clearly seminal product of this particular sound which went on to have pretty serious legs (to this day in fact). Perhaps it's intentional but the production feels excessively muddy to me and it detracts from the sound. I got the more actually complete Black Tambourine album because that's what was on YouTube Music and even that clocked in well under 45 minutes. I can't help feeling that was probably about all this band had in it.

You know a band is prolific when their "Complete Recordings" contains a whopping 25 minutes of music (yes, I know it's not actually their complete recordings, but not far off.) It's okay, I can see why they were influential but at the same time I don't love the washed out sound. Just sounds like a big pile of mush to me. 3 stars.

Good stuff

It was ok. Not sure why, out of all the albums in the world ever, this was the one chosen. Would be interested to know why.