A-Z (studio album) by Colin Newman

A-Z by Colin Newman
Year: 1980
Overall rank: 6,859th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 50 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (119th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,011th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,859th)
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A-Z track list

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 50 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.5/100, a mean average of 72.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.3.

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From 06/18/2012 09:26
With A-Z, Newman takes the post-rock robotic structure and aesthetics of Wire to its logical conclusion drawing on the expressionist psychodrama of Robert Wyatt, the futurism of Brian Eno and the psychedelia of Syd Barrett in the process. Newman creates chilling apocolyptic and fatalistic atmospheres through a succession of mini-requiems, dramatic rhythms, industrial-sounding electronics and decadent vocals. Ultimately, A-Z is as a postmodern futuristic psychedelic cabaret that sounds unlike anything else.
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