A Light For Attracting Attention
by The Smile
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A Light For Attracting Attention is ranked as the best album by The Smile.
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A Light For Attracting Attention 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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A Light For Attracting Attention 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 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 76/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  AleJohnMari | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 36/100 | 63 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 43/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 80 Music Albums of the 2020s | 49/80 | 8 |
| 2026 |  bertrandu | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 5/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Revista La Dosis Los 100 mejores discos internacionales de 2022 | 81/94 | - |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 15 Music Albums of 2022 | 7/15 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Kalos | Top 23 Music Albums of 2022 | 9/23 | 3 |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 66 Music Albums of the 2020s | 57/66 | 3 |
| 2026 | SD100852 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 21/100 | 16 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 426 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,193 | |||
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A Light For Attracting Attention ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 3 days ago | Andrash | 234 | 65/100 |
| ! | 5 days ago | xhitmanx | 1,603 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/17/2026 17:04 | traistboar | 1,769 | 79/100 |
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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 79.4/100, a mean average of 78.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements BestEverAlbums 08/30/2026 20:00 in Album of the day (#7411): A Light For Attracting Attention by The Smile BestEverAlbums 08/18/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5408): By VascoA Light For Attracting Attention comments
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Bach 03/17/2026 17:37 | #313565
Their best.
Best tracks: Waving A White Flag, Free In The Knowledge, We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings. (Edited)
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Non un semplice spin-off dei Radiohead, A Light for Attracting Attention è un ottimo disco che vede una grandissima coesione musicale fra i suoi membri. Questo disco fa delle seconde linee uno dei suoi grandi punti di forza, oltre che dei groove killer. A mio parere secondo miglior disco di questo bel 2022 musicale (Edited)
If this were a Radiohead album, it would be by far their worst. And wouldn't feel up to the standard of Radiohead's stellar discography. So I'm glad it isn't. But ignoring the Radiohead comparisons, it's a decent but unspectacular album in its own right. No real standout tracks, but my favourites are The Opposite, Pana-vision, Speech Bubbles. (Edited)
A record in pure Radiohead style but despite this it doesn't sound old or already seen at all. I prefer a little bit the slow tracks because they hit me more emotionally, great album anyway.
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