Hard Light (studio album) by Drop Nineteens

Hard Light by Drop Nineteens
Year: 2023
Release date: 2023-11-03
Overall rank: 29,886th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 12 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2023 (416th)
Award Top albums of the 2020s (2,394th)
Award Best albums of all time (29,886th)
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Drop Nineteens bestography

Hard Light is ranked 3rd best out of 4 albums by Drop Nineteens on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Drop Nineteens is Delaware which is ranked number 6663 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 194.

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Hard Light track list

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 12 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.8/100, a mean average of 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.8.

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From 11/04/2023 15:02
Drop Nineteens: the band, the myth, the legend. They released 2 albums in the early 1990s, led by the landmark shoegaze classic Delaware in 1992, and then broke up and thought to never be heard of again. And yet 30 years later, we have Hard Light, a reunion album that brings familiar and distinct sonic elements of their 90's sound to the present, as if no time has passed at all. A cohesive and solid album, more dream pop/rock adjacent than shoegaze, but with the hallmarks of a Drop Nineteens effort, including driving bass, fuzzy guitars, and the dreamy vocal pairings of Greg Ackell and Paula Kelley. Stand out tracks include Scape Flow, Gal, The Price Was High and T.
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