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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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/12/2026 19:40 | liquidbottle | 775 | 82/100 |
| ! | 06/19/2026 06:14 |  VasileTurcut | 1,530 | 81/100 |
| ! | 06/11/2026 00:36 |  lleon79 | 1,143 | 81/100 |
| ! | 05/31/2026 11:10 | TonySayers61 | 25,039 | 64/100 |
| ! | 05/30/2026 14:29 | Mafedere | 627 | 75/100 |
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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 79.3/100, a mean average of 78.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.
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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.
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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
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.
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.
ExTeaSea 12/24/2022 19:44 | #292182
The most Radiohead sounding album of his side projects/solo work. Could have just made it a Radiohead album. He even got their guitarist haha. Great album!
There are some excellent compositions here but it lacks flow. It feels like outtakes from a previously recorded but never released Radiohead album. Interesting but not yet growing on me.
Brad1770 11/09/2022 23:42 | #291177
Its sum is greater than its parts
Made me smile
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HoldenM 08/22/2022 07:48 | #288812
Album-of-the-Year material.
Yeah, you can accuse this of being aughts-era Radiohead leftovers, but when the songs are this well-written, sound this good, and work this well together, who cares?
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