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).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 09/05/2025 14:12 | TonySayers61 | 24,751 | 64/100 | |
| 03/31/2024 01:27 |  ExTeaSea | 5,210 | 83/100 | |
| 10/29/2023 18:38 | daCritic | 4,541 | 73/100 | |
| 10/08/2023 16:07 | LosWochos | 47,327 | 75/100 | |
| 03/09/2023 10:55 |  Igtonumama | 10,787 | 63/100 |
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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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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
Good stuff, ruff gem is by far my favorite though.
paladisiac 07/16/2012 15:20 | #46563
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.
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