Panopticon (studio album)
by Isis

Panopticon by Isis
Year: 2004
Release date: 2004-10-19
Overall rank: 1,933rd   
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 152 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2004 (32nd)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (311th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,933rd)

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Panopticon is ranked as the best album by Isis.

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Panopticon track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Panopticon rankings

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Overall rank: 1,933rd | 2000s rank: 311th | 2004 rank: 32nd

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Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 152 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.6/100, a mean average of 77.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.3.

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60/100
From 02/09/2021 21:17 | #266093
More or less the same issue I had with Oceanic, namely the vocals, which I found extremely distracting.
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75/100
From 08/31/2018 00:54 | #220297
Love the instrumentation, easy to get lost in it at times, its heavy yet dreamy. 50/50 on the vocals though.. I like the melodic bits, and even some of the yelling, but the screamo/black metal parts I don't care for very much... 7.5/8ish territory for me
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90/100
From 03/25/2016 20:09 | #162527
Great album, too bad they can't do any more concerts in Paris.
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From 08/10/2015 08:48 | #147422
Fuck it, I gave it a 100/100, it's basically essential.
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100/100
From 07/09/2015 07:03 | #145372
This album is so damn close to an essential 100/100, I think "Altered Course" drags on for too long but besides that, the album it is absolutely amazing. Some gorgeous instrumentation here and atmospheric beauty.
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From 05/26/2015 22:40 | #142460
Lyrics are Understandable, but in many ways is one of the best experimental metal albums ever with Oceanic.
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From 04/14/2015 23:18 | #139527
The instrumentation is fantastic, but the vocals are sometimes not very good at all.
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90/100
From 03/08/2015 22:23 | #136392
I was not expecting something this massive in sound. Definitely going to give it another listen sometime soon.
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