Urban Driftwood
by Yasmin Williams
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Urban Driftwood is ranked as the best album by Yasmin Williams.
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Urban Driftwood track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Urban Driftwood rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Top 28 Music Albums of 2021 | 8/28 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 16/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 88 Music Albums of 2021 | 46/88 | 2 |
| 2026 | spewventuri | Top 34 Music Albums of the 2020s | 23/34 | 7 |
| 2025 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 57/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | henriknaess | Top 80 Music Albums of 2021 | 67/80 | 1 |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 39/100 | 3 |
| 2024 | Igtonumama | Artists to watch out for | 40/100 | - |
| 2023 | cicadelic | Aquarium Drunkard :: 2021 Year In Review | 52/100 | - |
| 2023 | weston | Top 75 Music Albums of 2021 | 62/75 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 25 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 51 | |||
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Urban Driftwood ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/11/2026 00:42 | Skerns | 5,212 | 80/100 |
| ! | 02/25/2023 10:48 | Igtonumama | 10,784 | 63/100 |
| ! | 11/01/2022 11:16 | jonny5244 | 8,466 | 63/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.6/100, a mean average of 71.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.1.
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Repo 12/07/2021 16:27 in What album are you listening to right now?
Hayden 02/02/2021 00:49 in 2021 MusicUrban Driftwood comments
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Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/08/2021 21:27 | #266040
(This is a lovely american primitive guitar album. It puts me in a nice head space and the musicianship is consistently solid and rich.)
I am a fan of John Fahey, some Leo Kottke, and some Robbie Basho. I can't say I have a particularly deep understanding of the history of this style of American Primitivism, but what I've heard (the classics) I have consistently been impressed and even awed by.
Yasmin Williams is continuing that tradition musically. The guitar playing here is intricate and delicate and beautiful. With mostly her acoustic she succeeds in creating wise sweeping vistas and quite beautiful and inventive melodies.
There is a lot to digest musically here. Yasmin has a very unique playing style, and her consistently catchy melodies and her quite rhythmic playing as well as her willingness to break away from strict guitar-only arrangements make this album a full meal so to speak.
For almost the entire 45 minutes I was thoroughly enclosed inside this music and this album. It is beautiful, it has catchy moments, it has moments that feel like an introspective walk through a park during a snow storm, its got something for the whole array of music fans who may stumble upon it. Definitely a standout album.
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