Buds
by Ovlov
Ovlov bestography
Buds is ranked 3rd best out of 5 albums by Ovlov on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Ovlov is AM which is ranked number 10913 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 108.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Buds track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Buds rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 25/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | sunnydhamm | Top 57 Music Albums of 2021 | 48/57 | 1 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 15/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 95 Music Albums of 2021 | 9/95 | 5 |
| 2026 | dihansse | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 54/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | asimpkins | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 40/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 53 Music Albums of the 2020s | 35/53 | 4 |
| 2025 | skrapoel | Top 28 Music Albums of 2021 | 22/28 | 1 |
| 2025 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 61/100 | 2 |
| 2025 |  Nacho212 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 42/100 | 8 |
| 2024 | dihansse | My Overall Top 1000: 601-700 | 6/100 | - |
| 2024 |  Wasinski | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 92/100 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 12 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 39 | |||
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Buds ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/25/2025 04:41 | skrapoel | 2,250 | 71/100 | |
| 03/16/2024 23:30 |  sssvnnn | 8,300 | 67/100 | |
| 06/08/2023 16:06 | asimpkins | 2,948 | 70/100 | |
| 03/22/2023 18:13 | sunnydhamm | 1,608 | 59/100 | |
| 03/09/2023 14:19 | Mr November | 309 | 86/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.8/100, a mean average of 71.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.
Buds comments
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Love this album, easily my favourite of 2021. A perfect album but I'm holding 5 marks back for its brevity, 8 songs that clock in at less than 25 minutes leaves me slightly unsatisfied. Having said that those 8 songs are perfect distillations of fuzzed out slacker rock, Dinosaur Jr would be the main touch point for me (the closer is knowingly called Feel The Pain) but it's somehow poppier and more experimental at the same time, some of the guitars veering into MBV territory. The overall tone of the album is a jaunty melancholia but the highlight for me is the relatively slow Cheer Up, Chihiro with its quiet/loud dynamics augmented by a wonderful blast of brass in the extended outro. I fully understand the sentiment of the previous commenter that this is 'generic indie rock' but I'd like to know what the 2005 comparisons are as this is very much drawing from the early 90's to my ears, much as Yuck were doing a decade or so ago. If you haven't heard it please go listen for yourself, especially if fuzzed out slacker rock is your thing.
Very much generic indie rock from 2005.
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