Ellipse
by Imogen Heap

Ellipse by Imogen Heap
Year: 2009
Release date: 2009-08-24
Overall rank: 13,197th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 21 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2009 (230th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (2,366th)
Award Best albums of all time (13,197th)

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Imogen Heap bestography

Ellipse is ranked 2nd best out of 4 albums by Imogen Heap on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Imogen Heap is Speak For Yourself which is ranked number 3932 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 367.

Imogen Heap album bestography « Higher ranked (3,932nd)
Speak For Yourself
This album (13,197th)
Ellipse
Lower ranked (18,723rd) »
I Megaphone

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Ellipse rankings

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Overall rank: 13,197th | 2000s rank: 2,366th | 2009 rank: 230th

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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 21 votes)
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09/23/2025 06:37 juanr1096  Ratings distribution  6,11378/100
 
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08/13/2025 03:47 PapaShiz86  Ratings distribution  11,07379/100
 
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01/28/2025 23:26 Pepeov  Ratings distribution  53377/100
 
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12/28/2023 00:34 bonnequestion  Ratings distribution  1,61770/100
 
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02/20/2023 02:15 Moondance  Ratings distribution  20,10272/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.2/100, a mean average of 70.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.

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90/100
From 04/30/2010 22:34 | #11237
The images in this album are stunning. What is normally reserved for modernist poetry has been brought into Imogen's beautiful voice, and I have to say that this album is simply captivating. It is her best singing to date, with more range than she has ever shown in any album before it, and with more emotion felt in key words. Really a triumph for her. Details and Ellipse are basically apples and oranges, so don't go into this album thinking it will sound very similar.

Track ordering is the most lucid I've ever seen from Imogen, which is nice because it really feels like a complete album.
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