Modern Fiction
by Ducks Ltd.
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Modern Fiction is ranked 2nd best out of 2 albums by Ducks Ltd. on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Ducks Ltd. is Harm's Way which is ranked number 11432 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 104.
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Modern Fiction track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Modern Fiction rankings
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Modern Fiction ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/06/2026 04:34 | dhbarrett | 8,613 | 65/100 |
| ! | 07/01/2025 20:27 |  Igtonumama | 10,785 | 63/100 |
| ! | 09/05/2024 16:06 | rdadmanesh | 65 | 80/100 |
| ! | 05/20/2024 00:41 | Sammyo_96 | 624 | 82/100 |
| ! | 02/18/2024 20:27 | LosWochos | 47,365 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.9/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 7.7.
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dihansse 12/18/2021 19:18 | #277642
And don't forget the guitar strumming of The Wedding Present on How Lonely Are You? but then it indeed moves quickly to Flying Nun influences. Nevertheless a great album.
Brad1770 12/03/2021 00:04 | #277029
For a duo from Toronto Canada they sure are inspired by Antipodean musical influences with a wonderful jangle pop sound that channels most obviously the Go-Betweens but also The Chills (NZ) (track 5 here is “Under the Rolling Moon” and not to be confused with The Chills iconic track “Rolling Moon”), the Clean (NZ), the Bats (NZ) and appearing in the album credits with vocals (Background) are none other that The Beths another NZ band
The most interesting track for mine on ‘Modern Fiction’ is closer “Grand Final Day” which tells a very specific local Melbourne Australia tale about the Australian Football League Grand Final and being away from home as the protagonists favourite team (St.Kilda) gets beaten. Most odd for a Canadian group. Turns out this track is unsurprisingly a cover of a track by Australian Caden MacDonald from his 2020 album ‘My Footy Dreams Never Come True’ but given a guitar makeover and abbreviated lyrics
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