Sunlit Youth
by Local Natives
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Sunlit Youth is ranked 3rd best out of 6 albums by Local Natives on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Local Natives is Gorilla Manor which is ranked number 4275 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 340.
(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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Sunlit Youth track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 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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| ! | 05/28/2025 02:43 |  imacgill | 2,823 | 79/100 |
| ! | 09/08/2024 01:45 | PapaShiz86 | 11,663 | 79/100 |
| ! | 07/17/2023 00:44 | lanadeleswift | 3,751 | 86/100 |
| ! | 07/08/2023 23:38 | plasmicmist | 1,988 | 76/100 |
| ! | 12/23/2022 02:38 |  zags7000 | 20,568 | 64/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.2/100, a mean average of 72.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.5.
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I've always thought this was one of their best (if not the best) albums they did, even when I first heard it on release day in 2016. I think the consensus is that some of their fans didn't like the approach they took on this album, and non-fans just view the songs as fairly average, but to me I love a lot of this. The production is really great, the songwriting and energy are also infectious, and I have no real complaints. The first half is significantly stronger (which is a trend they have on each of their albums), but nothing here is "bad" to my ears, and I really enjoyed the direction this album took - so much so that I ended up seeing them live twice in 2017. Maybe I'm not critical enough on things I enjoy, but I tend to enjoy quite a few albums from this era that had some more electronic elements that some fans didn't seem to enjoy as much (Tame Impala's Currents comes to mind for example). I say if the music sounds good to you and is enjoyable, who cares? Shifts in musical direction can keep things interesting!
This is right up there on my personal list of underrated gems that deserve more attention. Keep in mind it's not a life changing masterpiece. It's still around an 8/10 (and maybe it can just barely push to a 9/10 when you find yourself listening to this in the exact perfect mood for the music to have maximum impact), but it is very enjoyable and probably deserves to be at least in the top 100 albums for this year, if not top 50. Those are my thoughts at least.
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