Kaputt
by Destroyer

Kaputt by Destroyer
Year: 2011
Release date: 2011-01-25
Overall rank: 443rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 605 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 2011 (7th)
Award Top 100 albums of of the 2010s (60th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (443rd)

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Kaputt track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Kaputt rankings summary
Overall rank: 443rd | 2010s rank: 60th | 2011 rank: 7th  Overall chart history
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Kaputt ratings

Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 605 votes)
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38 hours ago jayjaythejetplan  Ratings distribution  796/100
 
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09/07/2026 14:02 xhitmanx  Ratings distribution  1,60475/100
 
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07/03/2026 01:05 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  15,61270/100

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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 79.0/100, a mean average of 77.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.4.


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From BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements
The overall chart is ever changing, and it's difficult to keep up with the detail of what's happening. So, for those people who are interested, this post attempts to show the latest movements - biggest climbers, movers, new entries and leavers for the top 100, 250, 500 & 1000 over the past month,…
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From BestEverAlbums 08/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements
The overall chart is ever changing, and it's difficult to keep up with the detail of what's happening. So, for those people who are interested, this post attempts to show the latest movements - biggest climbers, movers, new entries and leavers for the top 100, 250, 500 & 1000 over the past month,…
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From BestEverAlbums 07/31/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5390): By eclab
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85/100
From 01/17/2023 17:53 | #293014
A surprise package full of artistic jazz pop that manages to stay enjoyable with great melodies and catchy choruses rather than fall into the trap of becoming pretentious.
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80/100
From 09/27/2022 20:03 | #290002
Conseguiu pegar tanta coisa boa de um jazz mais comercial. Belo trabalho.
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70/100
From 02/23/2022 00:56 | #281809
I kept on hoping that each track would be instrumental. I love the jazz groves on this album but I find the song structures and lyrics to be uninteresting at best, annoying at worst. This is the perfect case of an album with a great sound but weak songs. (Edited)
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Rating:  
85/100
From 10/05/2021 10:46 | #274697
I had very high hopes for this album after hearing the opening tracks but by the end it does slow down and lose your interest. There are a lot of great cuts in between and so it is difficult to get bored. The instrumentation is fantastic as well with lots of variation and each song sounds completely unique. It is also a very smooth and easy listening record and would definitely help to relax if you ever needed to. Overall, not the greatest album but it is definitely far above an average record.
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60/100
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