Relaxer
by alt-J
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Relaxer is ranked 3rd best out of 7 albums by alt-J on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by alt-J is An Awesome Wave which is ranked number 270 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,051.
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Relaxer track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 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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| 06/07/2026 19:46 | Jantje | 667 | 75/100 | |
| 05/02/2026 06:59 | TroutMaskGreg | 1,766 | 69/100 | |
| 03/09/2026 17:52 | araidernomore | 461 | 70/100 | |
| 02/11/2026 18:46 | wizardalien | 836 | 48/100 | |
| 01/10/2026 21:19 | sunnydhamm | 1,616 | 59/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.8/100, a mean average of 69.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.2.
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Completely agree with the comment by PinkMind
Was really looking forward to this after their first two albums, but this was really disappointing. I loved 3WW and Adeline though.
There’s a lot on this album that really shouldn’t work - conflicting musical ideas, clumsy lyrics - but everything is so densely layered that it’s hard to escape Alt-J’s world. If This Is All Yours called for extra close attention and sensitivity, Relaxer’s message is, quite simply, to relax.
PinkMind 03/21/2018 15:15 | #211422
When In Cold Blood and 3WW came out I was so exited about this. This could have easily been better than this is all yours or Awesome Wave. But they totally killed it with Hit me Like That Snare and one of the worst cover songs I've ever heard (Rising Sun)
Strangel 03/09/2018 11:24 | #210460
Pleader is an incredible song. Have another listen.
This is album is the definition of a mixed bag: it has some of the best stuff alt-J has ever put out (Adeline, Deadcrush, etc), two "meh" tracks (Last Year and Pleader) and two of the worst songs they've ever made (House of the Rising Sun and Hit Me Like That Snare). I think the good of this album outweights the bad, but barely so.
Brad1770 03/02/2018 11:05 | #209904
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Though the songs are not bad, I miss the artistic way of Alt-J's album compositions. Where is the intro? Where are the interludes? This is not really an album to me, it's just a collection of songs. Some good, some ok, some bad. I also don't really get the 'cover'
RoundTheBend 12/14/2017 01:28 | #203084
First Alt-J album which seems to be the most cohesive. I felt like the other albums were a bit all over the place - a good thing in of itself at times, but for me was a bit of a turn off somehow.
Their complete recreation of house of the rising sun was an interesting endeavor. Pretty cool to make something like that your own on a totally new song (it's not a cover).
Tracks 6 and 7 were slightly weak, but really dig the rest of the album.
jhuik 10/06/2017 04:47 | #199172
Not nearly as disappoining as I first thought. 3WW is supposedly their personal favourite, but mine is Deadcrush. Adeline and other tracks also make this very likable alt j... although, also, wildly inconsistent and unsuccessful in parts.
SaulCortes1992 08/19/2017 22:21 | #196363
GOOD
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