Play Dead
by Mutemath
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Mutemath bestography
Play Dead is ranked 4th best out of 8 albums by Mutemath on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Mutemath is Odd Soul which is ranked number 5286 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 262.
(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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Play Dead track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Play Dead rankings
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 5 hours ago).
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 12/100 | 18 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Best albums from '15 to '24 | 7/100 | - |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 58/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 29 Music Albums of 2017 | 1/29 | 5 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Best Ever Albums - 1 per Year | 35/68 | - |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Best American Albums | 18/100 | - |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 61/100 | 40 |
| 2022 |  PanheadWarrior | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 38/100 | 13 |
| 2021 |  RoundTheBend | Top 97 Music Albums of 2017 | 72/97 | 1 |
| 2020 |  jqyelton0216 | Top 18 Music Albums of 2017 | 9/18 | 3 |
| 2020 | PanheadWarrior | Top 50 Music Albums of 2017 | 3/50 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 11 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 86 | |||
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Play Dead ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 05/05/2026 23:52 | bonnequestion | 1,665 | 70/100 |
| ! | 01/23/2023 21:38 | Moondance | 20,675 | 72/100 |
| ! | 07/09/2022 23:47 |  pjohnsongolf | 1,417 | 76/100 |
| ! | 01/28/2022 16:16 | Svelte8 | 1,858 | 73/100 |
| ! | 08/26/2019 05:22 | Reach4theSun | 367 | 87/100 |
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(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.6/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.6.
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I dare you to find another band that can write these types of songs, play them, record them, mix them and master them as well as Mutemath does. I've never ever seen another band do that good of a job on all these things, and without the help of anybody outside of the band! They even did their own artwork!
This album is real "tour-de-force" by Mutemath. This band is cruelly underrated, their level of talent is almost unmatched these days.
RoundTheBend 10/15/2017 22:04 | #199543
So many aspects of this record I want to like (mostly the instrumentation), but feel like the songwriting could improve.
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