Bufo Alvarius, Amen 29:15

The album has continued to receive acclaim throughout the years. Of the album's lack of commercial success, Noel Gardner of The Quietus wrote in retrospect: "It's not hard to see why: clearly, they were never going to make mass consumption music, but they sounded like pretty much nothing else out there. In the main, they still don't."^[9] "Bufo Alvarius didn't just stand out like the proverbial sore thumb when first released 15 years ago," wrote Dom Gourlay for Drowned in Sound, "but actually sounds wholly unique today, its only close compatriots probably being White Hills' Glitter Glammer Atrocity or Earth's The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull. However, where both the former and the latter proffer power and sound expansion over tenacity, Bardo Pond are one of those outfits where the adjective 'experimental' genuinely means what it says on the tin."^[10] Italian magazine OndaRock named it one of their "milestone" albums, with Francesco Alti calling it a "strongly modern work, [...] of a classic, timeless beauty."^[11] The magazine's editors would go on to rank it the 34th best psychedelic album of all time (a spot it shares with Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request).^[12]

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the Bufo Alvarius, Amen 29:15 liner notes.^[13]

Release history

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