Thin Black Duke
by Oxbow
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Thin Black Duke is ranked as the best album by Oxbow.
(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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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 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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| ! | 03/15/2025 19:50 |  AvalancheGrips | 697 | 89/100 |
| ! | 08/12/2024 10:49 |  Dingerbell | 3,993 | 63/100 |
| ! | 01/18/2024 19:09 |  ForegroundNoise | 2,921 | 60/100 |
| ! | 11/17/2023 17:24 | zomg101 | 2,228 | 69/100 |
| ! | 06/19/2023 03:47 |  AAL2014 | 3,576 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.0/100, a mean average of 75.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.2.
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10 years after "The Narcotic Story", Oxbow has not aged, even though the guys are fifty years old. Oxbow has all it takes for his career to be a shocking sound experience: to keep his music safe from the blues, nothing is heavier than rock, but especially for vocal experiments of Eugene S. Robinson. Well, with "Thin Black Duke", in 2017, what is certain is that these guys from San Francisco have not smoothed their music, nor lost in creativity. A middle-aged Oxbow, in fact, is a bit like a mature Radiohead: it's still getting old, it's a little less intense, but it compensates with a growing class, an identity affirmed, and a surprising grace. It is always tortured, but gently and melodiously tortured. A good mix of genres, which borrows from blues, noise rock, punk, metal, free jazz and classical music. If Oxbow does not upset as much as before, now he rocks.
8/10
Best track: "Cold & Well-Lit Place"
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