A Blemish In The Great Light
by Half Moon Run
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Half Moon Run bestography
A Blemish In The Great Light is ranked 3rd best out of 5 albums by Half Moon Run on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Half Moon Run is Dark Eyes which is ranked number 5004 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 279.
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A Blemish In The Great Light track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
A Blemish In The Great Light rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 52/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Best albums from '15 to '24 | 47/100 | - |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 85 Music Albums of 2019 | 34/85 | 3 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Best Canadian Albums | 45/100 | - |
| 2025 | bonnequestion | Top 23 Music Albums of 2019 | 4/23 | 4 |
| 2024 |  lleon79 | Top 54 Music Albums of 2019 | 14/54 | 4 |
| 2024 | cronadigallina | Top 100 Music Albums of 2019 | 89/100 | 1 |
| 2024 | Bardiebart | Top 84 Music Albums of 2019 | 7/84 | 5 |
| 2022 | MahlonBast | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 22/40 | 28 |
| 2021 | asturias | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 47/100 | 11 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 14 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 100 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/05/2026 13:57 | TonySayers61 | 25,558 | 64/100 |
| ! | 09/18/2023 20:03 | LosWochos | 47,668 | 75/100 |
| ! | 06/30/2022 17:45 | MahlonBast | 28 | 64/100 |
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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 74.5/100, a mean average of 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.4.
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Has gone into my top 50 albums of all time, along with Dark Eyes and Sun Leads Me On, hmmm might have to make it top 100, so many jostling for favour in there! But I love everything about the albums, the beauty of the solo piano piece, all the different layers, guitar riffs, percussion, keyboard, bass, strings, slide guitar and all the other instruments I'm not sure of (I miss vinyl!!) and then the singing: the soul and feeling of the singing, the melodies, the harmonies: all these combine in one glorious cup of beauty and spirit and feeling and fun and melancholy and sublimity (is that a word?). Music that inspires similar feelings in me (too many to mention ((the songs but also the feelings bahaha)) but here goes: songs are Will to Love Neil Young (one of the most under rated songs ever imho and loads of other early songs of his), all of Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd, Say it ain't so Murray Head, Dreams, Need your love so bad, Future Games, Man of the world Fleetwood Mac/Peter Green, Ripples, Entangled I know what I like Genesis, lots of Leonard Cohen, Losing It Rush, Behind Blue Eyes and 5.15 The Who, most of CSNY's songs........and on... Music: Erik Satie, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, many Chopin Preludes, Carmina Burana (technically opera I suppose), and loads of other music that I can't think of right now. Going away to cry, laugh, draw and hang out washing now, might need a wee lie down!
lleon79 11/02/2019 17:44 | #244375
I'm really really surprised Half Moon Run hasn't really taken off as I would've expected them to. Their debut album was one of my favorite records growing up (which I discovered thanks to a trailer for Assassin's Creed IV). Their second effort didn't surprise me as much but it was pretty good also. The canadian band takes their sound to new grounds on "A Blemish In The Great Light" and it might be their best album to date. Here they fuse their indie/alt rock spirit with some synths here and there, a happier piano in a lot of parts and a lot of energy overall.
I really urge you to give them a shot. They are heavily underrated and they keep on getting better.
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