Masked Dancers: Concern In So Many Things You Forget Where You Are
by The Brave Little Abacus

Masked Dancers: Concern In So Many Things You Forget Where You Are by The Brave Little Abacus
Year: 2009
Release date: 2009-08-01
Overall rank: 7,394th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 50 votes)
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Award Top albums of 2009 (129th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (1,291st)
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Masked Dancers: Concern In So Many Things You Forget Where You Are is ranked 2nd best out of 3 albums by The Brave Little Abacus on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Brave Little Abacus is Just Got Back From The Discomfort - We're Alright which is ranked number 3003 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 504.

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Overall rank: 7,394th | 2000s rank: 1,291st | 2009 rank: 129th
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2026 DingerbellTop 20 Music Albums of 200917/201
2026 ForegroundNoiseTop 50 Music Albums of the 2000s36/506
2026UntitledTop 18 Music Albums of 20095/184
2026sunnydhammTop 46 Music Albums of 200912/464
2025PapaShiz86Top 100 Music Albums of 200948/1003
2025 seb7Top 13 Music Albums of 20091/135
2025juanr1096Top 100 Music Albums of 20093/1005
2025dougcummingsTop 16 Music Albums of 20092/165
2025 seb7Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s4/10019
2025juanr1096Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s67/1007
2025 DommeDamianScaruffi Best Albums of 200911/55 -
2025 ForegroundNoise2000s: The 25 Best Underrated Albums17/25 -
2025dougcummingsTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s47/10011
2025 seb7Top 100 Greatest Music Albums76/10023
2025dougcummings201-300 Greatest Music Albums86/100 -
2024 kaduphemingTop 73 Music Albums of 200910/734
2024cronadigallinaTop 100 Music Albums of 200914/1004
2024 ArthurknightTop 100 Music Albums of 20096/1005
2024 ssteveTop 48 Music Albums of 200923/483
2024 LowkeyTop 99 Music Albums of 200942/993
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 36
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 171
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From 02/01/2022 04:13 | #280392
This is Masked Dancers: Concern in So Many Things You Forget Where You Are by The Brave Little Abacus

Midwest emo / post rock / Math Rock

And with every scream, you can feel it too. You feel the loneliness, the insecurity in that lisp.

Masked Dancers is an album plagued by longing and sorrow. That insane songwriting that’s somehow both technically complex and simple/catchy. Those warm guitars and some of the best drumming you have ever heard in your goddam life. Oh and that production, that dreamy dreamy production. Euphoric. Adam Demijirian, the lead vocalist, has what can be described as a very strained relationship with pitch, tone, intonation, and all the other basics. He has a very present speech impediment that makes the sound “ess” nonexistent in his vocabulary. Yet, it fits perfectly. It couldn’t have been any other way. Every note fits just the right way.

Midwest emo is this kind of music that a bullied lonely kid would listen to on the bus while looking through the window and wishing for a better life. Adam is that kid. You are that kid. This album is an escape, if just for 50 minutes, to a world where the only voice in the room is the one that gets you

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