Bleed Out
by The Mountain Goats
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The Mountain Goats bestography
Bleed Out is ranked 12th best out of 39 albums by The Mountain Goats on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Mountain Goats is The Sunset Tree which is ranked number 1471 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,166.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Bleed Out track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Bleed Out rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 23/100 | 16 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 34/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 64/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 3/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 53/100 | 10 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 58/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  meccalecca | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 78/100 | 1 |
| 2025 | cicadelic | Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2022 | 27/84 | - |
| 2025 |  identifer | Top 25 Music Albums of 2022 | 16/25 | 2 |
| 2025 | ExTeaSea | F2LF: Mountain Goats | 5/15 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 29 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 73 | |||
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Bleed Out ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/02/2025 00:51 | ExTeaSea | 5,239 | 83/100 |
| ! | 11/03/2024 10:56 | patmull | 577 | 75/100 |
| ! | 01/17/2024 14:42 | Stehako | 244 | 74/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 71.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.8.
Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/19/2022 12:00 in Latest Releases (w\c 2022-08-15) (week 33, 2022)Bleed Out comments
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seb7 09/18/2022 01:52 | #289744
generally inconsistent and a bit boring, but has a good sound which exemplified on a few songs.
Arthurknight 08/31/2022 12:44 | #289176
Some of John Darnielle's best songs in a while. All the lead singles for Bleed Out remain standouts, and a few more album tracks, namely Extraction Point, Guys on Every Corner, and Hostages are all well crafted pieces. The production in particular on Bleed Out is really well executed, with the band congregating at Sylvan Esso's studio in North Carolina, and helmed by Albini production alumni Anna Bognanno (Bully). One might find this high clarity, clean production style a little unfitting for Mountain Goats, but I think it allows his songwriting to shine through more cleanly (full respect though to the band's lo-fi origins). To rationalise: theres never anything especially radical happening instrumentally with Mountain Goats, it's all in the lyrics and delivery. A 4-track might help with "rawness," but the writing is more essential in accomplishing that and hearing it unencumbered – I feel – is where Darnielle has worked best. In any case, John is always writing the same batch of songs over and over, so if you like this shtick, Bleed Out will handily scratch that itch.
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