Today's Active Lifestyles
by Polvo
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Today's Active Lifestyles is ranked as the best album by Polvo.
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Today's Active Lifestyles track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 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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| ! | 02/18/2026 23:01 | Proto | 4,241 | 33/100 |
| ! | 01/15/2026 13:27 | Leginlists | 3,774 | 83/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 07:21 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 |
| ! | 11/08/2025 06:56 |  MadhattanJack | 5,994 | 66/100 |
| ! | 05/18/2025 01:46 |  AAL2014 | 4,170 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.5/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.
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In the mid 90s one still felt rock music hadn't exhausted its possibilities of progression. The amount of new, exhilarating stuff coming from Japan at this time certainly pushed that idea aside. In America, some of the most innovative rock was being labeled "math rock" and Polvo, with their own unique sound of shape-shifting structures and joyful dissonance, was one of these bands . Each song loaded with ideas, their off-beat explorations always marked by a sense of playfulness that never let them sound arid or boring.
Socipluco 08/19/2015 16:05 | #148015 | TOP COMMENT
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Complex, unpredictable, dischordant and witt. This is what math rock sounds like. Every song changes like every 30 seconds: you've got used to the beat and you think it's cool but then they change it again and again, and they come back to that cool sound and then change it again. Being completely lost is so beautiful...
louisjwyatt 02/25/2015 19:28 | #135658 | TOP COMMENT
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These guys are brilliant at combining discordant guitar noise and beautiful melodies. Very interesting stuff.
ButterThumbz 05/23/2013 11:56 | #76945 | TOP COMMENT
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An inexplicably listenable discordant racket from a band that sounds like it's perpetually reinventing itself.
Cymro2011 03/02/2013 13:57 | #66689 | TOP COMMENT
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really surprised by this album. Gonna have to check out more of this Math Rock stuff.
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