The Age Of The Understatement
by The Last Shadow Puppets
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The Last Shadow Puppets bestography
The Age Of The Understatement is ranked as the best album by The Last Shadow Puppets.
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The Age Of The Understatement track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Age Of The Understatement rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 7 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  HelsinkiSnorkel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 49/100 | 10 |
| 2026 |  serpico | Top 96 Music Albums of the 2000s | 75/96 | 5 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of 2008 | 46/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2008 | 91/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Pastiche | Top 98 Music Albums of the 2000s | 40/98 | 12 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 90 Music Albums of 2008 | 26/90 | 4 |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 68 Music Albums of 2008 | 13/68 | 4 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | The Word Best Albums 2008 | 8/10 | - |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 44 Music Albums of 2008 | 29/44 | 2 |
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 59 Music Albums of 2008 | 33/59 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 235 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 959 | |||
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The Age Of The Understatement ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/28/2026 21:00 | luukvdschepop | 767 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/03/2026 20:23 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,123 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/22/2026 23:45 |  Purplepash | 5,002 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.8/100, a mean average of 75.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.9.
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The Age Of The Understatement forum mentions
Purplepash 08/22/2026 23:56 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
Romanelli 05/07/2022 22:28 in Albums You Added To Your Collection TodayThe Age Of The Understatement comments
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one of the best of the year and love the meeting place!
Mike43 04/01/2012 10:14 | #39277 | TOP COMMENT
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Being a huge Arctic Monkeys fan, it still took me a while to get around to listening to this. Wow. This album has such an amazing sound, which is so different compared to what Alex Turner had done with Arctic Monkeys up to that point. Every song on the album is great, and I think Alex Turner and Miles Kane are a great duo.
Gooz 06/18/2014 16:19 | #114675 | TOP COMMENT
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Was a good time listen to it. The dancin' mood fits well with the epic elements. Good record I would say.
tgarritsen 12/26/2013 03:10 | #98785 | TOP COMMENT
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Their voices sound so great together
The last song encapsulates so well why I like Alex Turner as a lyricist so much, It is imaginery, dreamy, settling. As for the rest of the album, It is good, but nothing else really reaches the peak. And it is kind of similar to Artic Monkeys, a thing they would change in their next record almost ten years later.
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