Tiny Cities
by Sun Kil Moon

Tiny Cities by Sun Kil Moon
Year: 2005
Release date: 2005-10-31
Overall rank: 6,033rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 48 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2005 (116th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (1,033rd)
Award Best albums of all time (6,033rd)

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Sun Kil Moon bestography

Tiny Cities is ranked 5th best out of 28 albums by Mark Kozelek on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Mark Kozelek is Benji which is ranked number 394 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,237.

Sun Kil Moon album bestography « Higher ranked (5,737th)
Universal Themes
This album (6,033rd)
Tiny Cities
Lower ranked (6,034th) »
Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys Of Blood

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Tiny Cities rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,033rd | 2000s rank: 1,033rd | 2005 rank: 116th
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2026ScrabblerTop 100 Greatest Music Albums23/10078
2026Juneof44Top 50 Music Albums of 200516/504
2026blueandthemoonTop 86 Music Albums of 200564/861
2026LittleM1971Top 93 Music Albums of 200537/933
2026 arthurbittencourtTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s4/10019
2025 SomethingSpecialTop 7 Music Albums of 20053/74
2025 SomethingSpecialMark Kozelek Ranked3/30 -
2025 SomethingSpecialTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s11/10018
2025ThuramThugoodRanked - Sun Kil Moon (USA) - Ranked18/18 -
2025 SomethingSpecialTop 100 Greatest Music Albums68/10031
2025 paladisiactop 65r albums (63), #0301-040073/100 -
2025skrapoelTop 58 Music Albums of 200545/581
2024 kaduphemingTop 59 Music Albums of 200524/593
2024RhettTop 81 Greatest Music Albums52/8130
2024 paladisiac2000s 65rating (64.12-63.13), #001-100*88/94 -
2024 NoisyBeastTop 100 Music Albums of 200590/1001
2024 meccaleccaTop 49 Music Albums of 200541/491
2024 ArthurknightTop 100 Music Albums of 200534/1003
2023 kaduphemingTop 99 Music Albums of the 2000s44/9911
2023 paladisiacTop 100 Music Albums of 200568/1002
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 27
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 219
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Tiny Cities ratings

Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 48 votes)
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65/100
 
10/06/2025 07:59 Juneof44  Ratings distribution  2,59069/100
 
75/100
 
08/28/2025 10:33 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  24,20264/100
 
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07/28/2025 15:12 LosWochos  Ratings distribution  46,89375/100
 
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07/11/2025 22:53 Scrabbler  Ratings distribution  26377/100
 
90/100
 
06/19/2025 06:31 idiotican  Ratings distribution  2,80374/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.9/100, a mean average of 71.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.5.

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From 06/29/2025 12:11 | #309770
Recorded after their 2003 masterpiece Ghosts of the Great Highway, Tiny Cities is a cover album that sees Kozelek reconstruct and breathe new life into songs by the legendary Modest Mouse. It also captures some of Kozelek's most beautiful singing and playing, with each song feeling as inspired as the originals.
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From 05/22/2016 23:34 | #166677
This one keeps growing on me. What a bizarre album it is, but very well played and sung. I think people haven't spun this fucker enough to realize how good it is.
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90/100
From 03/11/2016 11:42 | #161728
I think this album is underrated, I like it more than newest Kozelek's work in the 2010's
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65/100
From 11/02/2015 00:40 | #152376
A weird idea: an album of Modest Mouse covers in the way of Sun Kil Moon.
Sometimes it's hard to recognize it.
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From 02/08/2013 19:29 | #64504
Not a big fan, but it's not bad by all means.
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