Lamp Lit Prose
by Dirty Projectors
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Dirty Projectors bestography
Lamp Lit Prose is ranked 5th best out of 12 albums by Dirty Projectors on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Dirty Projectors is Bitte Orca which is ranked number 885 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,962.
(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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Lamp Lit Prose track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Lamp Lit Prose rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 100 Music Albums of 2018 | 26/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 2018 | 96/100 | 0 |
| 2025 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 2018 | 15/50 | 4 |
| 2025 |  bojolpif71 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2018 | 99/100 | 0 |
| 2025 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 100 Music Albums of 2018 | 27/100 | 4 |
| 2024 | henriknaess | Top 100 Music Albums of 2018 | 57/100 | 2 |
| 2024 |  meccalecca | Top 50 Music Albums of 2018 | 34/50 | 2 |
| 2024 |  EyeKanFly | AM Bubbling Under 2010s 14 | 83/100 | - |
| 2023 | conallmalone | Terribly Underappreciated | 24/46 | - |
| 2023 |  ammf3 | Top 52 Music Albums of 2018 | 9/52 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 36 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 79 | |||
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Lamp Lit Prose ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 03/25/2026 11:54 | Juneof44 | 2,629 | 69/100 |
| ! | 12/31/2025 16:59 | EyeKanFly | 8,985 | 65/100 |
| ! | 08/04/2025 00:27 | Skerns | 5,213 | 80/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.4/100, a mean average of 68.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.
Lamp Lit Prose forum mentions
gerhard 07/04/2020 20:50 in What album are you listening to right now?Lamp Lit Prose comments
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A much happier album than the self-titled release, this album also sounds much more like Bitte Orca than, well, anything since Bitte Orca. There's an added element of glitch pop that plays well with the more optimistic tone here, even though the album does occasionally enter a panic mode about politics. Grossly overlooked in the AOTY 2018 discussion.
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