Cul de SacBest Cul de Sac Albums Ranked
7.3
Avg Score
3
Opinions
4
Albums
1
Reviewer
Summary from 3 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Cul de Sac’s catalog across 4 albums from 3 opinions, with an overall average of 7.3/10. The top-rated Cul de Sac album is Death of the Sun (2002) with a 7.9/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Immortality Lessons (Live) and The Strangler's Wife. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2002 to 2003.
Death of the Sun
“An instrumental band with a more or less rock setup can go in a few different directions. Some improvise, emphasizing interaction between players in a manner approximating jazz. Some focus on specific rock signifiers and exaggerate certain aspects. And then some go off to a more impressionistic place, manipulating texture and mood as if composing a score for a film. Cul de Sac is a restless, searc”
Immortality Lessons (Live)
“Cul de Sac rose up in the early 90s in Boston. The press surrounding their efforts always commends them for avoiding the grunge scene ascendant at the time, as well as the more staid course of their post-rock contemporaries in the years to come. But despite all their Eastern song titles and instrumental tunings, it's doubtful the quartet fell that far from the proverbial tree. They've always been ”
The Strangler's Wife
“Writing about soundtracks is difficult. It's something like what a book critic would face if he reviewed a published screenplay. There's what the work was initially meant to do (a screenplay is a blueprint for a film, a soundtrack lends musical support to the drama), and then there's how you experience it on the consumer end (as a book or CD). When one writes about a soundtrack, the task is to tel”