PortastaticBest Portastatic Albums Ranked
7.6
Avg Score
9
Opinions
7
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 9 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Portastatic’s catalog across 7 albums from 9 opinions, with an overall average of 7.6/10. The top-rated Portastatic album is The Summer of the Shark (2003) with a 7.9/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Be Still Please and Bright Ideas. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2001 to 2008.
De Mel, De Melão - EP
“Bless globalization. On Portastatic's delicious new EP, Superchunk's Mac McCaughan takes cues from Brazil's tropicalia new wave of the late '60s, who at the time were taking cues from the acid and pop movements of America and England. And now, thirty years later, college kids can interpret the lyrics with help of online translation engines as they sit in an Internet café munching on cashew satay s”
The Summer of the Shark
“Providing the proper context for a baggage-heavy project like Portastatic is tricky, especially without launching into some kind of perverse, indie rock version of *The $10,000 Pyramid*, twitching in a plastic seat and frantically hollering buzzwords: Superchunk frontman! Co-owner of Merge Records! Tropicalia! Chapel Hill! Canadian film soundtrack! Yo La Tengo! But the peripheral associations that”
Be Still Please
“On his latest release, Merge and Superchunk man Mac McCaughan returns to his indie rock roots and explores the orchestral and bossa nova sounds of his soundtrack and previous Portastatic work.”