Sound Of Water
by Saint Etienne
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Saint Etienne bestography
Sound Of Water is ranked 9th best out of 23 albums by Saint Etienne on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Saint Etienne is Foxbase Alpha which is ranked number 2833 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 552.
(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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Sound Of Water track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Sound Of Water rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 7 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 64/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | davidhuret | Ranking: Saint Etienne (main albums) | 4/13 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Test chart | 35/49 | - |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 64/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | henriknaess | Top 99 Music Albums of 2000 | 26/99 | 4 |
| 2025 | ryusaki | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 61/100 | 8 |
| 2024 |  PAPPITUFO | Top 22 Music Albums of 2000 | 21/22 | 0 |
| 2023 |  TheDude85 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 83/100 | 1 |
| 2021 |  SleepDealer | Top 32 Music Albums of 2000 | 24/32 | 1 |
| 2021 | davidhuret | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 21/100 | 16 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 19 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 56 | |||
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Sound Of Water ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 12/13/2025 17:23 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 |
| ! | 01/23/2024 19:36 | Sumbody | 1,916 | 75/100 |
| ! | 12/13/2022 15:14 |  Norman Bates | 10,155 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.2.
Forum mentions
SleepDealer 09/18/2019 10:24 in What album are you listening to right now?Sound Of Water comments
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"Sound of Water" is essentially business as usual for Saint Etienne. Composed of typically well-produced indietronica which we've come to know and love from them, *but* the record exudes more of a calm, stately aura. It's a refreshing change of genre and somewhat reminiscent of Kate Bush's 2005 "Aerial"... this is lush ambient pop that grows rather than shows.
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