The Kid
by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith bestography
The Kid is ranked as the best album by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.
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The Kid track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Kid rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 94/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Sentire Ascoltare Migliori album 2017 | 21/100 | - |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 24/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Exclaim! Top 10 Improv and Avant-Garde Albums Best of 2017 | 9/10 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | XLR8R’s Best of 2017: Releases | 8/39 | - |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 28/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | AllMusic Best Of 2017 | 33/70 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Rockdelux Discos internacionales 2017 | 47/51 | - |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 71 Music Albums of 2017 | 54/71 | 1 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Aquarium Drunkard 2017 Year in Review | 3/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 74 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 163 | |||
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The Kid ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/07/2026 23:20 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,767 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/31/2026 19:20 | covecove | 6,708 | 74/100 |
| ! | 03/07/2026 12:50 | TonySayers61 | 25,721 | 64/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.
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The Kid forum mentions
neilgee 05/24/2026 20:42 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
SleepDealer 03/23/2020 15:08 in What album are you listening to right now?
Hayden 02/09/2020 15:53 in Best solo female albums of the 2010s?The Kid comments
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On last year’s Ears, Smith brilliantly echoed the accomplishments of Laurie Spiegel in drawing the sweet, familiar sounds of nature from synths, and The Kid ups the ante even further by making you forget where any of these sounds came from. This could almost be the music the citizens of Björk’s utopia would make.
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