This album is amazing. I mean, what do you want me to say? It’s the best album of the 1990’s that no one has every heard of, unless you read Pitchfork. Daring, touching, forward-looking, damn it, this album is forcing me to use cliches to describe how great this album is. How about this: Emergency & I might have been recorded in 1999, but it has aged so well that it could have been recorded in 2009; it doesn’t sound dated. Or how about this: I will say Emergency & I is even better than Superunknown, even better than Ten, even better than Achtung Baby (ooohhh, controversy). Even better than OK Computer or Nevermind? It’s hard to compare perfect albums to each other, you know. Go listen to this album, now!
Grade: 10/10
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