Pacific Kiss
by Rat Columns
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Pacific Kiss track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 73 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Pacific Kiss rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 95 Music Albums of 2021 | 12/95 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Ranked listening log 2021 101-200 | 6/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 22/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 51/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Greatest Music Albums: 1001-1100 | 72/100 | - |
| 2025 |  Patman360 | 2021: Part II | 52/100 | - |
| 2025 |  Keatownrodriguez | Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 | 96/100 | 0 |
| 2021 |  Mercury | 2021 Spill Over, One-And-Dones | 12/40 | - |
| 2021 |  Applerill | Top 50 Music Albums of 2021 | 29/50 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 9 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 13 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/28/2026 14:55 | jnmayles | 2,297 | 73/100 |
| ! | 09/08/2025 14:16 | Ikslol | 24 | 60/100 |
| ! | 05/11/2022 04:56 | Moondance | 20,799 | 72/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.6/100, a mean average of 62.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.3.
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Purplepash 03/22/2021 10:35 in What album are you listening to right now? Repo 03/22/2021 02:16 in ALC #8: Pacific KissPacific Kiss comments
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Mercury 03/25/2021 20:16 | #267756
(Indie pop rock, that is what this is. Outside of the songwriting, all elements are fine. Nothing raises this above pretty good.)
Honestly, after several listens nothing stands out about this album. The drums and the guitars and everything are recorded in such a way that they really pop. The sounds here, the occasional pretty guitar solo, the way the drums stand out clean and quite nice, the dreamy vocals, the slight new wave influences that come in and spice up the otherwise pretty straight-forward Indie Pop and Indie Rock sound, these are all fine.
But... It feels like I have heard this a hundred times before. If a well-worn sound is done well and modernized and also, if I'm being honest, is a style I truly love, then the fact that the sounds are derivative is not a problem. However, this is not a style that ever really captured me in the past so this album is not doing anything for me.
The only thing I can say I am actually negative on here is the songwriting. The vocals are standard indie rock, but the words feel uninspired and by-the-books. The lyrics I heard consistently struck me as that youthful, romantic stuff that I never once felt moved by.
Overall, if you like this Mac Demarco-ish indie rock/pop sound, you may like this. For me, not really anything stands out here.
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