Seen/Unseen (compilation album)
by Sweet Trip
Sweet Trip bestography
Seen/Unseen is ranked 4th best out of 7 albums by Sweet Trip on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Sweet Trip is Velocity : Design : Comfort which is ranked number 846 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,034.
(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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Seen/Unseen track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Seen/Unseen rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 72/100 | 3 | |
| 2025 | juanr1096 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 68/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | dougcummings | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 39/100 | 3 |
| 2025 | Top 40 Music Albums of 2022 | 11/40 | 4 | |
| 2024 | Top 77 Music Albums of 2022 | 53/77 | 2 | |
| 2024 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 87/100 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Top 98 Music Albums of 2022 | 98/98 | 0 | |
| 2023 | Top 50 Music Albums of 2022 | 27/50 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 17demmonsjared | Top 52 Music Albums of the 2020s | 20/52 | 7 |
| 2022 | Giant2015 | Top 41 Music Albums of 2022 | 14/41 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 10 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 27 | |||
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Seen/Unseen ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/14/2025 03:25 | juanr1096 | 6,069 | 78/100 |
| ! | 03/02/2023 16:15 | 2,931 | 77/100 | |
| ! | 01/24/2023 23:34 | 1,516 | 80/100 | |
| ! | 12/21/2022 21:34 | 10,790 | 63/100 | |
| ! | 12/14/2022 01:28 | 648 | 74/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.3/100, a mean average of 72.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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"All tracks previously unreleased except for the first, KKMJ, which is featured on Alpas: Beyond Reverb And Noise, a Filipina artist showcase Shoegaze compilation series.
Before Sweet Trip broke up in January 2022, Roby provided this compilation. Valerie and I then edited it down from 57 to 50 tracks for release.
A fan had made an unofficial Sweet Trip YouTube compilation album called Seen/Unseen, which featured unreleased demos from Roby's SoundCloud and officially released non-album tracks. It was quite popular and so It was agreed that we should release officially the unreleased tracks compiled with other demos and tracks finished and shelved for future release. We didn't think Roby would provide so many tracks. We hadn't even heard most. Many are jewels. Some are polished. Most are rough. The number and variety of genres covered with elegance is amazing.
Sweet Trip have achieved uncommon recognition and success in the past five years with their glitchy 2003 album velocity: design: comfort being widely recognized by a new generation of fans as thee seminal work bridging shoegaze and electronic music, with their more composed 2009 record You Will Never Know Why somehow becoming even more popular than VDC. We are eternally grateful that they reunited in 2020 to write and record a new album, A Tiny House, in Secret Speeches, Polar Equals, which we released in May, 2021.
Roby and Valerie are both unique super talents. Sweet Trip have ascended steadily and organically. They have always been very humble and reverent to their fans.
Seen/Unseen is a view to what may have come."
- Mr. Darla, March 2022
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