Virginia WingBest Virginia Wing Albums Ranked
8.2
Avg Score
11
Opinions
3
Albums
5
Reviewers
Summary from 11 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Virginia Wing’s catalog across 3 albums from 11 opinions, with an overall average of 8.2/10. The top-rated Virginia Wing album is Ecstatic Arrow (2018) with a 8.4/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by private LIFE and Forward Constant Motion. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2016 to 2021. The Second Shift ranks as the highest-rated Virginia Wing song on Rate.fm with a 7.1/10 average.
private LIFE
“It isn’t immediately obvious that private LIFE, Virginia Wing’s fourth album, is their most engaging album to date. Anyone might think it’s ‘just’ Ecstatic Arrow Mk. 2 – and neither artist nor listener would be to blame, given how the Manchester group’s 2018 release represents such a strident leap forward that it would be inadvisable to do anything too off-piste for the follow-up. The two LPs are”
Ecstatic Arrow
“When metronomic deadpan doesn’t work as a vocal style, a record can be prone to sounding more like your operating system than a carefully considered piece of art. “Alexa, can you turn off your background noise?” for example. “I’m sorry, even I don’t understand this,” and so on and so forth. For each part that ‘Ecstatic Arrow’ is self-possessed and monotonous, it also runs with the energy and free”
Forward Constant Motion
“For a band used to operating in such slow, smoky and dreamy sonic textures, Virginia Wing are currently accelerating at techno pace. Since their 2013 debut EP they have metamorphosed from a Broadcast-indebted dream pop band to a sprawling, unpredictable and deeply exploratory electronic two-piece, trading London as a base for Manchester in the process. A fast paced musical evolution combined with”