West
by Wooden Shjips

West by Wooden Shjips
Year: 2011
Release date: 2011-09-13
Overall rank: 11,580th   
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 26 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2011 (247th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (2,346th)
Award Best albums of all time (11,580th)

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West track list

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West rankings

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Overall rank: 11,580th | 2010s rank: 2,346th | 2011 rank: 247th

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79/100 (from 26 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.5/100, a mean average of 81.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 8.7.

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From 06/27/2020 12:26 | #254600
The sleeve photograph can only hint at what this album is. Close your eyes and you are right back in the heart of sixties San Fransico Bay psychedelia. There are nods to Hawkwind in the way the vocals sit in the mix however the psychedelic guitar is much more akin to Country Joe and the Fish/Eric Burdon and the Animals. Really like it!
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Is here definitely underrated !
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More "Grooving off-the-wall psychedelia" from the Shjips.
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