Rook
by Shearwater
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Rook is ranked 2nd best out of 12 albums by Shearwater on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Shearwater is Jet Plane And Oxbow which is ranked number 8204 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 151.
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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).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/07/2025 19:22 | Araldo | 1,471 | 80/100 |
| ! | 06/24/2025 18:14 |  Milhaud | 1,716 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/19/2025 14:17 |  EyeKanFly | 8,233 | 65/100 |
| ! | 01/14/2024 17:24 |  flamingyesdept | 2,933 | 77/100 |
| ! | 07/25/2023 02:19 | LT228 | 239 | 86/100 |
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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 78.2/100, a mean average of 78.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.9.
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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!
paladisiac 06/28/2012 14:18 | #45516
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.
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