Return To The Sea
by Islands
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Return To The Sea is ranked as the best album by Islands.
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Return To The Sea track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Return To The Sea rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2006 | 80/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2006 | 35/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 81 Music Albums of 2006 | 17/81 | 4 |
| 2026 | shanelovesyou1111 | Top 80 Music Albums of 2006 | 15/80 | 4 |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 68 Music Albums of 2006 | 63/68 | 0 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Lost At Sea: Best Albums 2006 | 9/20 | - |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 2006 | 66/73 | - |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 100 Music Albums of 2006 | 54/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 28 Music Albums of 2006 | 19/28 | 2 |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 2006 | 72/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 58 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 179 | |||
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Return To The Sea ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/05/2025 14:12 | TonySayers61 | 25,825 | 64/100 |
| ! | 03/31/2024 01:27 | ExTeaSea | 5,249 | 83/100 |
| ! | 10/29/2023 18:38 | daCritic | 4,647 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.7/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.
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Return To The Sea forum mentions
Komorebi-D 09/12/2018 12:36 in What album are you listening to right now?
nachosbob 11/24/2014 21:02 in Simular Album Art Game!Return To The Sea comments
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paladisiac TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/16/2012 15:20 | #46563 | TOP COMMENT
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The Unicorns breakup resulted in the formation of The Islands. The sound is approximately the same, but cleaner and more refined, mature dare-i-say, which results in an album without "Cut Our Hair"'s peaks and mountainous missteps. They genre-hop a bit too, from electronic minor-glitches to hip hop. "Return to the Sea" is as passionately-deep as it is varied as "Rough Gem" and the frenetic "Where There's A Will There's a Whalebone" highlight on the return of everyone's favorite indie lo-fi head-scratching band.
One of the prettiest and catchiest albums I've ever heard. The blissful curiosity seeps through every song, and gives you a little pit of sad reminiscence in you stomach with every listen.
CaptainFicus 10/07/2013 09:11 | #87798 | TOP COMMENT
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Good stuff, ruff gem is by far my favorite though.
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