Untouched
by Secret Shine
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Untouched is ranked as the best album by Secret Shine.
(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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Untouched track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/12/2025 02:38 |  MadhattanJack | 5,744 | 66/100 | |
| 05/21/2024 21:14 | TastyandTemptin | 3,125 | 72/100 | |
| 11/10/2022 00:59 |  Arthurknight | 9,593 | 72/100 | |
| 11/18/2020 19:42 | LittleM1971 | 5,937 | 81/100 | |
| 06/02/2018 02:51 | dhbarrett | 8,387 | 65/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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MadhattanJack 12/12/2025 03:26 | #312108
When they first signed with Sarah Records in 1991 and released their debut single, "After Years," Secret Shine were basically another "twee" band, complete with jangly guitars, "nice" melodies and not-at-all-"ballsy" male vocals. By 1993 they had completely retooled themselves as a shoegaze act, adding another guitarist and also female vocalist Kathryn Smith, whose voice is mostly used in lieu of a synth pad on this album. Unfortunately they weren't taken all that seriously as a shoegaze act in 1993, probably because of their label, plus the fact that shoegaze was losing its music-tabloid support by the end of that year. (In addition, as much as I like cats, the cover art is... well, not great.) So the album didn't sell so good, and they didn't make another one until 2005. I'd call this another example of a really good album being unfairly buried by the "flavor of the month" English music press, and it's definitely worth hearing.
Love it!
I just wish loveblind was on this album, that song is absolutely brilliant
SingingPeasant96 12/07/2013 00:14 | #96595
One of best album from Sarah Records! Lovely as fuck
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