Substrata (studio album) by Biosphere
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 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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15/100  | 03/16/2025 17:24 | Proto | | 34/100 |
100/100 | 01/18/2025 16:02 |  uncaria | | 83/100 |
85/100 | 09/30/2024 22:27 | Banner | | 80/100 |
60/100 | 04/15/2024 07:27 |  Dingerbell | | 63/100 |
60/100 | 03/11/2023 22:24 |  Igtonumama | | 63/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.0/100, a mean average of 75.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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JulianR 06/17/2019 23:04
An album that I wanted to enjoy, and really can't say that I did. It is very dark, very chilling. But overall not that musically interesting. I love generally the incorporation of field recordings into music, but they were a little lackluster in this instance. I just felt like I could guess what was going to happen next the whole time. snippet of a field recording/sample of someone talking, some repetitive uninteresting musical thing for 4 minutes, new sample, etc.
I will try and come back to this album. There are very few critically acclaimed albums that I have gone back to multiple times that have not finally clicked in some form. But also, this album feels like there's not a whole lot to click. I didn't enjoy the atmosphere, and thats about all there is.
65/100 (Below Average)
This is one of those few albums that I need to hear a couple more times before I give my final rating. As of now it is really pleasant album that give this vibe of being cold and beautiful. However, the album somewhat keeps me hanging wanting more from it. It might be due to loving an album like Pop where there is multiple details for days or the deceptive nature of Pop. While Substrata doesn't go that far. Maybe this is one point in time where ambient as well as ambient techno got more impressive now then back in 97. So we will see if this holds up on a few more listens.
Lowkey 11/05/2015 14:16
Chilling, and that's not just because it's Arctic Ambient.
One of the greatest ambient albums, deserves a much higher ranking.
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