Rook
by Shearwater
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Shearwater bestography
Rook is ranked 2nd best out of 13 albums by Shearwater on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Shearwater is Jet Plane And Oxbow which is ranked number 7242 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 179.
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Rook track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Rook 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 | cicadelic | The Hype Machine Music Blog Zeitgeist 2008 | 46/50 | - |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 2008 | 36/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Delusions Of Adequacy Top 50 of 2008 | 28/51 | - |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 68 Music Albums of 2008 | 58/68 | 1 |
| 2025 |  paladisiac | top 65r albums (62), #0101-0200* | 63/70 | - |
| 2025 | replacementlevel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 98/100 | 1 |
| 2024 |  EyeKanFly | AM Bubbling Under 2000s 01 | 42/100 | - |
| 2024 | paladisiac | Top 100 Music Albums of 2008 | 67/100 | 2 |
| 2024 | FieryGunHand | Top 40 Music Albums of 2008 | 22/40 | 2 |
| 2023 | lanis | Top 83 Music Albums of 2008 | 70/83 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 61 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 121 | |||
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Rook ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/28/2026 13:35 |  sssvnnn | 8,487 | 67/100 |
| ! | 06/10/2026 12:00 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,179 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 19:22 | Araldo | 1,472 | 80/100 |
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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 78.1/100, a mean average of 78.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.
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There is beauty in agony and the everlasting reach for the unobtainable, and it's present here on "Rook", the album where Shearwater (an Okkervil River side project of Jonathan Meiburg) take off. You can hear the painful longing in On The Death Of The Waters and on Rooks. Check out these couplets from the latter: "When the rooks were laid in the piles / by the sides of the road, / they were crashing into the aerials, / tangled in the laundry lines. / and, gathered in a field, / they were burned in a feathering pyre, / with their cold, black eyes. / When the swallows fell from the eaves, / and the gulls from the spires, / the starlings, in millions, / would feed on the ground where they lie. / and the ambulance men said: "there's nowhere to flee for your life, /so we stay inside, / and we'll sleep until the world of man is paralyzed." Now Okkervil's the side project.
Just bought this album yesterday from a stall in Wells Market.I am beyond impressed with it.Since I already own "Animal Joy" and "Golden Archipelago" I expected it to be good but not this good!
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