The Air Force
by Xiu Xiu
Xiu Xiu bestography
The Air Force is ranked 9th best out of 24 albums by Xiu Xiu on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Xiu Xiu is A Promise which is ranked number 3163 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 483.
(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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The Air Force track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 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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| 06/05/2026 07:33 | Exist-en-ciel | 11,201 | 70/100 | |
| 04/07/2026 20:50 | cicadelic | 12,968 | 73/100 | |
| 03/29/2026 13:24 |  CellarDoor | 8,592 | 79/100 | |
| 02/22/2026 07:06 | thepardunk | 2,580 | 69/100 | |
| 09/27/2024 16:12 | LosWochos | 47,247 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 71.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.8.
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Really good!
Favorite tracks: Boy Soprano, Vulture Piano, Save Me Save Me
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Appears to be simultaneously orchestrated and improvisational. My favorite of his thus far.
mickilennial 03/19/2014 02:40 | #106810
Wonderful, erratic, frantic, desperate, and amazing are all words I'd use to describe this. Jamie is an avant-garde artist who combines a sort of Scott Walker-meets-Ian Curtis vibe. He's not for those used to contemporary music as Xiu Xiu is all experimental art and this album is experimental rock at it's finest.
bongritsu 08/20/2013 05:40 | #84215
took me like 3 or 4 tries to actually finish this... some iteresting moments but i could not get into the vocalist
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