Fourth World Volume Two: Dream Theory In Malaya (studio album)
by Jon Hassell
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Fourth World Volume Two: Dream Theory In Malaya is ranked as the best album by Jon Hassell.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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15/100 | 09/26/2025 21:30 | Proto | ![]() | 33/100 |
75/100 | 12/25/2024 11:13 | platus | ![]() | 74/100 |
70/100 | 08/21/2024 10:25 | JamesMowbray | ![]() | 70/100 |
70/100 | 05/26/2024 21:26 | BorderFreeAndrew | ![]() | 74/100 |
80/100 | 08/06/2023 16:30 | pjerske | ![]() | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.9.
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Jon Hassell cleverly combines his electronic processing of sound with tribal/environmental recordings, giving this album a real sense of strangeness and wonder. Beware! The opening track will make you think your speakers are f*cked. I used to play this album all the time when I was younger and my girlfriend used to pretend she liked it. We have three kids now and she's a bit more honest.
This revolutionary sounding album is an extraordinary recording that uses Eno's 'environmental' concept translating it to the realms of the mystical and anthropological. The sound of electronics fused with trumpet fanfares and minimilist keyboards, conjures up primitive, mythological and eerie dreamlike atmospheres. The rainforest has never sounded as scary as this.
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