Through The Windowpane
by Guillemots

Through The Windowpane by Guillemots
Year: 2006
Release date: 2006-07-10
Overall rank: 6,730th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 48 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2006 (111th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (1,166th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,730th)

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Overall rank: 6,730th | 2000s rank: 1,166th | 2006 rank: 111th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 48 votes)
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85/100
A fresh and lovely album full of excellent ambitious songs, delivered in a bombast that suits the music perfectly. Some brilliant tracks in, made up love song, trains to Brazil, and, Sao Paulo. Guillemots made some good records after this but none come close to the beauty and invention of this album.
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85/100
Inventive, interesting, and curious. Still, borders on saccharine at times, such as "Blue Would Still Be Blue." I really loved "Made Up Love-Song #43" and "If the World Ends".
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"I think this is the most underrated album of all time, but it could be really overrated by me, I suppose."

That is probably the stupidest comment on this site. It's no surprise it came from me.
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85/100
Very underrated, buy this record!
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I think this is the most underrated album of all time, but it could be really overrated by me, I suppose.

This album is a little bit unconventional, but it's got a lot of heart. It's ambitious but unpretentious. It's eccentric and grand, but it's simple and honest. The music is absolutely superb; the lyrics are whimsically witty and delightful. 10/10 and borderline-eleven.
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