Knife Play (studio album) by Xiu Xiu

Knife Play by Xiu Xiu
Year: 2002
Overall rank: 7,325th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 43 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2002 (145th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (1,317th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,325th)
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Xiu Xiu - Knife Play - Absolutely Kosher Records - AK018 Vinyl, LP, Record 2003
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XIU XIU - Knife Play - CD - **BRAND NEW/STILL SEALED**
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Xiu Xiu bestography

Knife Play is ranked 6th best out of 22 albums by Xiu Xiu on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Xiu Xiu is A Promise which is ranked number 2664 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 581.

Xiu Xiu album bestography « Higher ranked (4,761st) This album (7,325th) Lower ranked (7,681st) »
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Knife Play track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Knife Play rankings

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Knife Play ratings

Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 43 votes)
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03/14/2024 13:49 teague  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 3,21979/100
 
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02/12/2024 20:48 AAL2014  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,62677/100
 
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01/12/2024 02:23 idiotican  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,37871/100
 
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07/24/2023 23:42 NoisyBeast  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 13,12674/100
 
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07/17/2023 17:42 CellarDoor  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 6,64680/100

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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.

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85/100
From 11/09/2022 05:49
some really good tracks but I really like when the moments when the melodies or instrumentation shine through. A lot of the noisier stuff doesn't do it for me
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95/100
From 02/16/2019 22:45
Visceral. I mean holy fuck this just punches you in the gut and then runs over you with a truck when you're still lying on the floor trying to make sense and recover from what just happened
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From 07/27/2017 04:36
Great for listening at night.

Favorite tracks: Don Diasco, I Broke Up, Hives Hives, Over Over, Suha, Poe Poe, Homunculus

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From 07/13/2015 23:04
Certainly his most honest and exposed, if not his most violent. This is not any Xiu Xiu I'm familiar with, taken to a much higher level than any of his other work I've heard.
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