Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
by Belle And Sebastian
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Belle And Sebastian bestography
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant is ranked 7th best out of 21 albums by Belle And Sebastian on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Belle And Sebastian is If You're Feeling Sinister which is ranked number 139 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,486.
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Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant 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 |  Wasinski | Top 80 Music Albums of 2000 | 66/80 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 90 Music Albums of 2000 | 86/90 | 0 |
| 2026 |  Sandrof1969 | Top 15 Music Albums of 2000 | 4/15 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Liedzeit | Top 82 Music Albums of the 2000s | 19/82 | 16 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 24/100 | 15 |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 33 Music Albums of 2000 | 21/33 | 2 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 90 Music Albums of 2000 | 9/90 | 5 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 30/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Liedzeit | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 99/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 96/100 | 0 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 139 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 413 | |||
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Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/18/2026 06:54 | cicadelic | 14,096 | 73/100 |
| ! | 07/03/2026 20:45 | dhbarrett | 8,821 | 65/100 |
| ! | 06/22/2026 15:21 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,023 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.9.
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Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/18/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5377): By Liedzeit
Repo 01/10/2023 15:02 in What album are you listening to right now?
baystateoftheart 03/29/2019 02:15 in You must listen to the album below you: canon editionFold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant comments
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I feel this album is quite underrated, yes, it doesn't quite hold up with the first 3 albums in Belle & Sebastian's discography, but then again, what does?
With 4 different vocalists, it is always going to be a little patchy, and for me, the best tracks are easily the ones with Stuart Murdoch on vocals. These tracks alone make this album essential - I Fought In A War is great, the Chalet Lines is very moving, There's Too Much and Women's Realm are both excellent and the Model is one of their best ever tracks.
The last decent B&S album, Dear Catastrophe was OK in parts but they sounded a different band by then and for me lost a lot of their charm. I keep coming back to this one which gets stronger in the second half of the album.
meccalecca TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/08/2014 19:57 | #111210 | TOP COMMENT
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He was a charming lad who went to a private school and was always so well-mannered.
cestuneblague TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/03/2017 19:23 | #195467 | TOP COMMENT
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Still very much a Belle & Sebastian record but with more voices this time around as Stuart Murdoch heeds the spotlight a little bit, and ultimately we get an album with some decent songs, some weird and not particularly rewarding experiments and a lot of sketchy, amorphous folk numbers that make the whole thing feel rather aimless. Not terrible, but lacks the timeless, colorful charm of their previous records & singles.
A slightly disappointing Belle and Sebastian album. Fold your arms child, doesn't quite have that cohesion and zip that their previous albums(and some later ones)had. Some decent songs(especially the first two), there always will be with B&S, but this arguably their weakest record.
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