Magician Among The Spirits
by The Church
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Magician Among The Spirits is ranked 12th best out of 38 albums by The Church on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Church is Starfish which is ranked number 1209 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,431.
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Magician Among The Spirits track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/04/2025 05:09 | stevengnz | 2,606 | 73/100 | |
| 07/03/2023 20:35 |  dihansse | 6,263 | 75/100 | |
| 05/01/2023 17:55 |  DommeDamian | 7,330 | 49/100 | |
| 04/18/2023 05:20 |  MadhattanJack | 5,672 | 66/100 | |
| 03/24/2023 14:10 | LosWochos | 46,869 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.7/100, a mean average of 71.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.6.
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Romanelli 03/22/2011 13:14 | #19443
"In 1997, Britain was awash in a postmodern wave of resurgent cultural imperialist glorification personified by the turgid Brit-pop phenomenon."....really, dude?
In 1997, Britain was awash in a postmodern wave of resurgent cultural imperialist glorification personified by the turgid Brit-pop phenomenon. While the newly-elected charismatic Machiavellian talisman Prime Minister Anthony B. Liar was busy entertaining establishment-friendly heir to the Beatles, Oasis, in number 10 Downing Street, an Australian band, The Church, had released a resurgent music of a different kind, a reinvented neo-pyschedelic-quasi-symphonic masterpiece.
The Church began their career by taking melancholy, pathos and angst from the book of glam-rock, and mixing it with the 'jangling' guitars and the melodic progressions from the book of folk-rock. Towards the late 1980s, the band changed direction and started to experiment with atmospheric arrangements which emphasized a semi-psychedelic counterpoint of guitar sounds.
The culmination of their sound experiments came together in the intricate and versatile 'Magician Among The Spirits' (1996), a production reminiscent of both King Crimson and Pink Floyd. 'Magician' is a complex and brilliant work, it's just a pity that the majority of music journalism appeared to have restricted their critical faculties of the time to the hype that surrounded 'Cool Britannia'.
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