James HoldenBest James Holden Albums Ranked
8.0
Avg Score
22
Opinions
10
Albums
8
Reviewers
Summary from 22 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated James Holden’s catalog across 10 albums from 22 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated James Holden album is Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities (2023) with a 8.5/10 average from 5 ratings, followed by The Animal Spirits and The Universe Will Take Care Of You. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2003 to 2025. Blackpool Late Eighties ranks as the highest-rated James Holden song on Rate.fm with a 9.7/10 average.
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Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities
“This is a pandemic dance record like no other. At the start of his career, British producer James Holden skewed trance, then techno, garnering acclaim for his remixes. He has since spent two fascinating albums exploring different paths to flow states, increasingly incorporating analogue instruments, cosmic jazz and Moroccan gnawa, while still adapting his own analogue synth rigs. His fourth album”
Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities
“James Holden succeeds in his titular request with Imagine This is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities”
The Animal Spirits
“The stylistic development that James Holden underwent from his debut album to his second, 2013’s ‘The Inheritors’, was marked: fairly standard trance had made way for gambolling, expressive improvisation and sprawl which, although performed largely on modular synths, had far closer relatives in post-rock and ecstatic jazz than it did in anything that one might term “electronic”. The difference bet”