Fading Frontier (studio album) by Deerhunter

Fading Frontier by Deerhunter
Year: 2015
Release date: 2015-10-16
Overall rank: 2,711th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 223 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2015 (49th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (449th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,711th)

Deerhunter bestography

Fading Frontier is ranked 4th best out of 13 albums by Deerhunter on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Deerhunter is Halcyon Digest which is ranked number 264 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,658.

Deerhunter album bestography « Higher ranked (1,901st) This album (2,711th) Lower ranked (3,352nd) »
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Fading Frontier track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Fading Frontier ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 223 votes)
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09/23/2023 00:41 PapaShiz86  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 8,50079/100

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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 74.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.5.

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55/100
From 01/24/2022 21:42
Great album - their best in my opinion. All The Same and Snakeskin are my favourites.
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60/100
From 04/08/2021 16:33
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From 01/27/2019 21:52
Very good.

Favorite tracks: Breaker, Ad Astra

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Rating:  
90/100
From 04/21/2017 19:10
It sucks being sick. People treat you different. Even doctors. Even your family. Brandon Cox aka Deerhunter knows this frustration. He knows the despair. Of being alienated, ostracized. But he’s done something extraordinary with this anger and frustration. He’s channeled it into a rallying cry. He’s taken his weakness and turned it into strength. Took fear and turned it into faith. In himself. In his abilities. Fading Frontier is nothing short of rallying cry for the sick & disabled. Anthems to get you fired up that you are important. That you matter. That no one is defined by anything or limited by anything. That one can surpass labels and diagnoses. And do something amazing.

Pretty impressive for a pop album. And this is a pop album at its heart. And it works. Anthems were made to be heard on FM radio after all. And in a different universe, those first three songs would be staples on the radio. Not all the songs work. Snakeskin’s 70s T-Rex stomp has never quite won me over. But, the rest is near perfect indie pop.

Grade: A. This is essential indie pop. These are songs for when the world wrongs you. For when you’re not understood. For when people don’t recognize the strength it takes to just keep on fighting and instead only sees weakness. Illness. This album picks you up, pats you on the back and inspires you to fight back.
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Rating:  
85/100
From 01/08/2016 08:05
That's it , this is one of the greatest bands ever.
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70/100
From 12/28/2015 20:28
Best song here ; Ad Astra (by Lockett Pundt) The best song on Halcyon Digest was Desire Lines also by Lockett...So, in the future I wish it could be 50-50 between Bradley Cox and Lockett for songwriting...
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85/100
From 12/08/2015 16:35
I'm with Holden, this may be the best thing Deerhunter has ever done. Certainly my favorite since Microcastle.
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85/100
From 12/07/2015 06:38
Their best since Microcastle, if you ask me.
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75/100
From 11/09/2015 09:21
It's solid and likeable but it doesn't live up to the highs they have set on previous releases.
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From 11/05/2015 13:33
Pretty unique album compared to Deerhunters last efforts as they went with more of a pop influenced sound with this one. Some really cool sounding songs on here and a great listen overall!
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