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Number 35 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 21st Century21st CenturyTier A

Sirens

Nicolas Jaar

2016 · experimental electronic · ambient

Other People · OP042

undergroundchart-reachCommercial reach 3 out of 5, where 1 is deep underground and 5 is top-40.

Why it's here

Sirens stretches Jaar's house-adjacent language into abstract, politically charged and theatrical territory, incorporating spoken Spanish, tango fragments and sudden structural ruptures. The politics are built into the instability of the record itself: songs fracture, languages shift and functional form keeps giving way beneath the listener. Six tracks and 'Killing Time' takes eleven minutes of them before the record has told you what it is.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Killing Time11:14
  2. 2The Governor6:49
  3. 3Leaves3:29
  4. 4No6:34
  5. 5Three Sides Of Nazareth9:54
  6. 6History Lesson3:43