Flowers For Vases / Descansos
by Hayley Williams
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Hayley Williams bestography
Flowers For Vases / Descansos is ranked 3rd best out of 5 albums by Hayley Williams on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Hayley Williams is Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party which is ranked number 4636 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 309.
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Flowers For Vases / Descansos track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Flowers For Vases / Descansos rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | 2021 outliers | 70/98 | - |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 25 Music Albums of 2021 | 13/25 | 3 |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 84 Music Albums of 2021 | 44/84 | 2 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 89/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  AwaitingAndrew | Top 50 Music Albums of 2021 | 23/50 | 3 |
| 2026 | Museman | Top 45 Music Albums of the 2020s | 40/45 | 3 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 89/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 18/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 88 Music Albums of 2021 | 82/88 | 0 |
| 2025 | Museman | Top 9 Music Albums of 2021 | 9/9 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 32 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 74 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/09/2026 04:05 | alexandermause | 1,590 | 86/100 |
| ! | 01/30/2026 04:00 | dhbarrett | 8,801 | 65/100 |
| ! | 01/21/2026 10:18 | ornot27 | 323 | 71/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.8/100, a mean average of 70.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.9.
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Mercury 02/17/2021 15:41 in What album are you listening to right now?
BestEverAlbums 02/05/2021 13:00 in Latest Releases (w\c 2021-02-01) (week 05, 2021)Flowers For Vases / Descansos comments
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Mercury TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/17/2021 16:35 | #266411
(Tender, isolated and backward-looking singer/songwriter album from Hayley. Album is pretty standard folk confessional singer/songwriter fare, with her heart-on-her-sleeve lyrics and lots of acoustic guitars and pianos. But it happens to be a very well-realized version of that style, so kudos.)
This is good stuff. Acoustic, heartbroken, introspective, beautiful. At times there are some ambient tones thrown in to spice it up and give the songs a bit more sad sack oomph. And while I don't feel this is a masterpiece or a true standout confessional singer/songwriter album, I quite enjoyed it all the way through and it scratches that moody itch.
There is a trend in pop music to make albums that feel like isolated, ruminative, assessments. This is due to, I would think, the 2020 quarantine and lockdowns that almost all of us took part in. This album is as good an example of this as any. The songs are somewhat mournful and unadorned and direct in their themes of lost love and lethargic attempts to move on emotionally from (in Hayley's case) a divorce and a false-start on her solo career. The cumulative effect of these 14 quite pretty and traditional solo folk and folk rock recordings is excellent. I feel like I am vibing with and feeling for the artist fully by the end.
Production is good considering she recorded most of this (or all? I think all, but I don't honestly know) from her home. The little, rare adornments like the weird effect on the vocals at the end of "No Use I Just Do", or the short instrumental "Descansos" with its horn sound, or the explosive end to the closing track "Just a Lover", or the dreamy crescendo of "HYD", etc, all contribute to a pretty well-rounded and engaging album despite how easy it is for this type of album to become a drag.
Anyway, I have always looked at Hayley as my slightly older, much cooler, peer. One who I never really liked the music of but respected from afar. I like this style of music much more than her kinda punky Paramore stuff and it was nice to sorta catch up with her in these strange and troubled times. Overall this is a solid album. Not much else to say on it.
Lovely record. One of the great vocalists currently working. Gorgeous guitars and it just takes you away to a swing chair on a sunny verandah in a wooded glade.
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