From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
by Virginia Astley
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From Gardens Where We Feel Secure is ranked as the best album by Virginia Astley.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 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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| ! | 05/09/2026 00:01 |  cestuneblague | 8,252 | 80/100 |
| ! | 05/07/2026 04:55 |  Rhyner | 1,730 | 59/100 |
| ! | 03/19/2026 08:08 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,373 | 70/100 |
| ! | 01/30/2026 21:23 | jinglebellis | 24 | 83/100 |
| ! | 05/02/2025 01:33 | Proto | 4,237 | 33/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.0/100, a mean average of 75.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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seb7 01/21/2023 04:36 | #293112 | TOP COMMENT
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stunningly beautiful, overall relaxing and heartwarming
Repo 03/24/2017 08:09 | #187999 | TOP COMMENT
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Well this came out of nowhere! It's simple, but alluring piano passages combined with found sounds that is magically and movingly transportive. It’s like stepping into a wardrobe and emerging in a land of unicorns and butterflies ( can you tell I have two girls! lol). The countryside of Totoro essentially springs to life. And you find yourself sunning on a field of buttercups or whatever as warm, peaceful church bells echo in the distance. An overwhelming sense of calmness enters your bones and you believe that magic is not just possible but real. But it’s not overly pretty or overdone. It’s all very tasteful and not a bit new agey.
It has two distinct sides with side a being incredibly playful and joyful and side b being more on the somber side of things as the day comes to an end.
Grade: A+. I’ve only been at this a short time , but it is definitely the most unique and alluring ambient album I’ve ever heard. And it immediately shoots to the top of my little chart.
For me it's very sad to see that Virginia Astley is so unknown. This albums is so ahead of it's time. It shows you one of those afternoons that we've all had. When you feel everything tracssends you. When, after having sex or something, you just stare by the window and see... that, the inexplicable. That thing that's so full of meaning but passes as fast as an insect by a garden, a breeze by your hair, or your life by your hands.
O.T. 01/22/2016 00:31 | #157298 | TOP COMMENT
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Between modern composition, pop and ambient a record of it's time and also 25 years ahead of it's time. Spooky happyness. The here and now in the eyes of a childhood passed.
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