Tiny Cities (studio album)
by Sun Kil Moon

Tiny Cities by Sun Kil Moon
Year: 2005
Release date: 2005-10-31
Overall rank: 6,356th   
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 48 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2005 (123rd)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (1,110th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,356th)

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Sun Kil Moon bestography

Tiny Cities is ranked 6th best out of 28 albums by Mark Kozelek on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Mark Kozelek is Benji which is ranked number 380 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,437.

Sun Kil Moon album bestography « Higher ranked (5,951st)
Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys Of Blood
This album (6,356th)
Tiny Cities
Lower ranked (6,576th) »
Among The Leaves

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Tiny Cities track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Tiny Cities rankings

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Overall rank: 6,356th | 2000s rank: 1,110th | 2005 rank: 123rd

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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 48 votes)
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10/06/2025 07:59 Juneof44   2,55269/100
 
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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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