Pang
by Caroline Polachek
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Caroline Polachek bestography
Pang is ranked 2nd best out of 2 albums by Caroline Polachek on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Caroline Polachek is Desire, I Want To Turn Into You which is ranked number 1099 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,584.
(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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Pang track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Pang rankings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/13/2026 18:28 |  DommeDamian | 7,679 | 48/100 |
| ! | 08/09/2026 08:26 |  Boltzmann | 1,851 | 68/100 |
| ! | 05/30/2026 21:13 | Mmorrison22 | 2,174 | 77/100 |
| ! | 04/18/2026 17:41 |  HoldenM | 1,854 | 84/100 |
| ! | 04/12/2026 05:12 |  katerpillar | 226 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.6/100, a mean average of 77.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.4.
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katerpillar 07/09/2025 10:04 | #310008 | TOP COMMENT
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Banger (Edited)
Boltzmann 07/14/2021 21:02 | #271621
To act like this has nothing to do with art pop is naive, but I'll admit that looking at this record from a different angle, coming from the hyperpop (I guess that's the electropop corenfro refers to) of Charli XCX, Sophie and PC Music - even though it could as accurately be categorized into baroque pop - this project suddenly proves to be much more influential - I am almost convinced Charli XCX's "7 Years" is a cover of Polachek's "So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings". Anyway, I feel bad for not noticing how good it was first, but without a proper context art is nonsense of course, and the fact that this album didn't explain that context to me instantly and I had to find it elsewhere so that this could make sense, does tell me it might still not be the best album in its genre. And now I'm afraid of overrating it, because maybe I should listen to my contextless self, but perhaps he was just listening to it too superficially. But anyway a 6/10 it ain't. (Edited)
corenfro 03/22/2021 17:07 | #267625 | TOP COMMENT
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Sometimes I'm glad I completely ignore the ratings & comments on this site before I listen to any sub genres of pop.
This is a perfectly fine record without the pretentiousness of a St. Vincent or FKA Twigs record because that's not what this is. Electropop gang FOR LIFE (Edited)
Boltzmann 01/05/2021 12:16 | #263856
Of the art pop albums this decade, this one does not stand out. It's so toothless compared St. Vincent or Róisín Murphy. (Edited)
light 8
Very nice album, her voice is really intense and her lyrics are sometimes amazing.
zags7000 03/25/2020 05:37 | #249087 | TOP COMMENT
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Just an amazing album. One of the more underrated albums on this site. Great vocals and top notch production make this one of the better albums of the year. From start to finish this is pretty amazing. A lot of focus is given to "Door" which is a great song but "Parachute" might be my favorite song here. (Edited)
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