Man Alive!
by King Krule
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Man Alive! is ranked 3rd best out of 8 albums by Archy Marshall on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Archy Marshall is The Ooz which is ranked number 1480 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,156.
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Man Alive! track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/12/2026 12:01 | TonySayers61 | 24,981 | 64/100 |
| ! | 03/25/2026 05:27 | Exist-en-ciel | 14,715 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/16/2025 09:31 | Invader666 | 2,622 | 65/100 |
| ! | 04/06/2025 21:33 | Andrash | 221 | 64/100 |
| ! | 01/22/2025 02:24 | MaxStorm98 | 3,798 | 89/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.8/100, a mean average of 72.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.
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This album is magnificent. Hands down his best in my opinion. Truly genre bending - I don't even know what this is. Jazz? Hip hop? Electronic? Post punk? All of them? Whatever it is, it's amazing. It's not often I listen to an album that seems like it is pushing the boundaries of music. 100/100 - must listen.
HoldenM 12/15/2020 18:47 | #262742
I prefer this to Secret of the the Ooze or whatever it's called. Certainly one that got better on subsequent listens. Still feels a little underdeveloped a not-insignificant part of the time. But well-produced and often well-written.
mdbaxter 11/17/2020 16:27 | #260968 | TOP COMMENT
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A talented artist makes a challenging album. I hesitate to ever say that someone is doing too much because that is reductive garbage in my opinion but some of my favorite parts of this record come from its most reserved moments. A lot of the songs are scattered in more than one sense of the word, for better or worse. Hits and misses throughout and a little something for everyone. I find it difficult to have any strong feelings on many of the songs.
I like better the second part of the album, probably it took a while for me to adapt to the combination of sounds.
Man Alive! by King Krule is a challenge. Sometimes jazz, sometimes hip hop, sometimes psychedelic, sometimes experimental. Not a really a pleasure to listen to and to me it was a bit too tough.
Couldn't get into it at all. Seems like a very minimal effort
ExTeaSea 03/03/2020 04:28 | #248441 | TOP COMMENT
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Told my wife that this is so slippy, haha. Meaning sleepy and trippy lol. I'm like slippy isn't a word I just combined two words haha. It's very good, it's chill, it's smooth as heck, I adore it!
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Yet again, absolutely amazing. I'm so happy King Krule exists and I have nothing else to say.
Favorite tracks: Alone, Omen 3, Cellular, Stoned Again, (Don't Let the Dragon) Draag On
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