Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
by M83
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Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts is ranked 3rd best out of 14 albums by M83 on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by M83 is Hurry Up, We're Dreaming which is ranked number 496 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,433.
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Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 59 Music Albums of 2003 | 20/59 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | LesChoses.com Top 2003 | 7/30 | - |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2003 | 4/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | Cheboygan74 | Top 21 Music Albums of 2003 | 12/21 | 2 |
| 2026 | VanillaBean | Shoegaze HW List | 50/70 | - |
| 2026 |  arthurbittencourt | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 78/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 38 Music Albums of 2003 | 33/38 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 2003 | 60/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2003 | 62/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 62 Music Albums of 2003 | 13/62 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 190 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 648 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/23/2026 18:43 |  ExTeaSea | 5,249 | 83/100 |
| ! | 06/18/2026 23:32 | PapaShiz86 | 11,765 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/03/2026 08:07 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,056 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.3/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.
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Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/02/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5361): By deadhouse MadhattanJack 08/22/2022 23:37 in What album are you listening to right now?
baystateoftheart 05/28/2021 01:03 in You must listen to the album below you: canon editionDead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts comments
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Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts is a euphoric album. From beginning to end it is extremely captivating and completely enveloping. The majority of the album is instrumental and the instruments used include synthesizers and drum machines. You might think that this album would get old and boring in short order. Surprisingly enough it does not; not at all; not even close. It is amazing how much emotion and deep personal reflection this album can trigger with each and every listen. This has to be one of the best electronic/instrumental albums I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. I would not have thought before hearing this that a mostly instrumental, electronic, noise album would be this good especially considering that the instruments used are cheesy 80's style drum machines and synthesizers. This album makes the most out of the instruments it uses. That is composition efficiency done right. (Edited)
meruizh 10/22/2014 01:51 | #124983 | TOP COMMENT
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I definitely understand the intention in this album. It is a beautifully constructed instrumental electronic album, and may fit perfectly as a movie soundtrack. But I found it really hard to get into.
I may sound commercial but I am fonder of his later albums
Graeme2 TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/03/2013 13:03 | #96203 | TOP COMMENT
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This and the follow up are great. Don't like the direction he went after the next one.
JulianR TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/24/2018 20:58 | #206448 | TOP COMMENT
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One of those albums where each track is pretty cool on its own but theres not a whole lot distriguishing them from eachother over the period of an entire listen. Still, songs like In Church and On a White Lake are fairly moving and gorgoeus
In Church, On A White Lake Near A Green Mountain, Be Wild, Gone were my favorites, but every song is fine and better appreciated when listened as a whole. The famous saying the whole is greater than the sum of the parts fits here.
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