The Animal Spirits
by James Holden & The Animal Spirits
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James Holden & The Animal Spirits bestography
The Animal Spirits is ranked 2nd best out of 7 albums by James Holden on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by James Holden is The Inheritors which is ranked number 7288 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 178.
(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 Animal Spirits track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Animal Spirits rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 32/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Lacobra | Top 29 Music Albums of 2017 | 17/29 | 2 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | HMV Best Albums 2017 | 20/50 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Sentire Ascoltare Migliori album 2017 | 78/100 | - |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 58 Music Albums of 2017 | 18/58 | 4 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Goûte mes disques Top 15 musiques électroniques 2017 | 1/15 | - |
| 2025 | cicadelic | Esquire Italia I 35 dischi migliori del 2017 | 29/35 | - |
| 2025 | stereo_mike | Top 99 Music Albums of 2017 | 60/99 | 2 |
| 2024 |  drstuey | Top 45 Music Albums of 2017 | 1/45 | 5 |
| 2024 |  Arthurknight | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 17/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 29 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 88 | |||
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The Animal Spirits ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/23/2024 00:34 | PapaShiz86 | 11,787 | 79/100 |
| ! | 04/10/2023 07:30 |  Special | 3,061 | 72/100 |
| ! | 02/14/2023 16:53 | ssteve | 2,620 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.4/100, a mean average of 77.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 5.1.
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Once again James Holden steps further away from his dancefloor origins, deeper exploring his interest in world music and spirituality. Occasionally the improvisations get a bit too heady, but I’d be happy to hear another album from this collaboration.
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