Sinister Grift
by Panda Bear

Album
Sinister Grift by Panda Bear
Year: 2025
Release date: 2025-02-28
Overall rank: 3,464th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 153 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 2025 (17th)
Award Top albums of of the 2020s (218th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,464th)

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Panda Bear bestography

Sinister Grift is ranked 4th best out of 9 albums by Panda Bear on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Panda Bear is Person Pitch which is ranked number 515 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,353.

Panda Bear album bestography « Higher ranked (2,779th)
Tomboy This album (3,464th)
Sinister Grift Lower ranked (7,528th) »
Young Prayer

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Sinister Grift track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
Praise
Average Rating: 80 (33 votes)Comments: View 1
2.
Anywhere But Here
Average Rating: 78 (37 votes)Comments: View 0
3.
50mg
Average Rating: 76 (33 votes)Comments: View 0
4.
Ends Meet
Average Rating: 75 (31 votes)Comments: View 0
5.
Just As Well
Average Rating: 78 (32 votes)Comments: View 0
6.
Ferry Lady
Average Rating: 79 (32 votes)Comments: View 2
7.
Venom’s In
Average Rating: 79 (31 votes)Comments: View 1
8.
Left In The Cold
Average Rating: 78 (29 votes)Comments: View 0
9.
Elegy For Noah Lou
Average Rating: 79 (29 votes)Comments: View 0
10.
Defense
Average Rating: 79 (34 votes)Comments: View 0

Sinister Grift rankings

Sinister Grift rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,464th | 2020s rank: 218th | 2025 rank: 17th  Overall chart history
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Sinister Grift ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 153 votes)
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 !		09/11/2026 20:37 Special  Ratings distribution  3,03372/100
 
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 !		09/04/2026 09:54 Jantje  Ratings distribution  70674/100

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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.0/100, a mean average of 73.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.


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Sinister Grift forum mentions

This album has been referenced 16 times on the forums, Explore the wider forum discussion to see what members have said about it.
From MadhattanJack 12/21/2025 02:04 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
“A nice pick for AOTY- it's in my top 15. (good year for shoe gaze) It really has been, which is like the one saving grace for the whole year in general. And you and I aren't far off taste-wise, so tell-ya what, next I'm going to listen to the Panda Bear album again and try to figure out why I blew…”
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From musicoed 11/16/2025 00:00 in 2025 Rating Tournament Diary
“The tournament has reached its midpoint. It is symbolic that three more professional teams will now join the game. The number of such teams will grow with each subsequent round. And this will, of course, be reflected in the results. Music publications' ratings are usually more thorough. They…”
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From BestEverAlbums 02/28/2025 13:00 in Latest Releases (w\c 2025-02-24) (week 09, 2025)
“Below are a list of new releases added to BEA for the week starting 2025-02-24 (23 albums) Albums released by artists in the top 1,000 this week are: (released 2025-02-28) (released 2025-02-28) (released 2025-02-28) (released 2025-02-28) Full list of this week's releases: (released 2025-02-24)…”
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Sinister Grift comments

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90/100
From 07/09/2025 23:37 | #310023 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Still early and I haven't listened to much, but this is a stealth AOTY contender. Every song is good-to-great. Only gets better as it goes. If not Panda Bear's best solo work, his best in years. (Edited)
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Rating:  
90/100
From 06/19/2025 14:40 | #309614
Album Rating: 83.40
(834/10)

Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Sinister Grift

28.02.2025

The most joyous and, in my opinion, best album by Panda Bear (Noah Lennox). In fact, it's probably my favourite Animal Collective linked album. From 'Venom's In', it's brilliant.

1.Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Praise 81
2.Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Anywhere But Here 83
3.Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - 50mg 79
4.Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Ends Meet 79
5.Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Just As Well 72
6.Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Ferry Lady 80
7.Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Venom’s In 90
8.Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Left In The Cold 88
9.Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Elegy For Noah Lou 94
10.Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Defense 88

Ranked in order:

* Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Elegy For Noah Lou 94
* Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Venom’s In 90
* Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Defense 88
* Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Left In The Cold 88
* Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Anywhere But Here 83
* Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Praise 81
* Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Ferry Lady 80
* Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - 50mg 79
* Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Ends Meet 79
* Panda Bear (SG - USA - Feb 25) - Just As Well 72 (Edited)
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Rating:  
90/100
From 05/11/2025 22:19 | #308955
21th Century Brian Wilson. (Edited)
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90/100
From 05/08/2025 16:51 | #308888
Calidad inmediata, top best AOTY in a single round (Edited)
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From 04/08/2025 21:30 | #308413 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I highly recommend headphones. There’s so much detail, melody, and harmony to bliss out to. This album is already growing ever higher in my estimates. Venom’s In is stunning. (Edited)
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