An Imaginary Country
by Tim Hecker
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Tim Hecker bestography
An Imaginary Country is ranked 10th best out of 19 albums by Tim Hecker on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Tim Hecker is Virgins which is ranked number 1262 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,380.
(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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An Imaginary Country track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
An Imaginary Country rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 89/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | videoheadcleaner | videoheadcleaner's 401-500 | 99/100 | - |
| 2026 | videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of 2009 | 7/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2009 | 61/100 | 2 |
| 2025 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of 2009 | 69/100 | 2 |
| 2025 |  TheDarkOrb | Top 23 Music Albums of 2009 | 18/23 | 1 |
| 2025 | cicadelic | Delusions Of Adequacy Best Albums Of 2009 | 23/49 | - |
| 2024 |  Arthurknight | Top 100 Music Albums of 2009 | 59/100 | 2 |
| 2024 | sonicdiscourse | 2009 To-Do List | 7/78 | - |
| 2024 |  EyeKanFly | AM Bubbling Under 2000s 08 | 77/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 27 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 53 | |||
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An Imaginary Country ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/19/2026 01:53 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,262 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/10/2025 13:04 |  Dingerbell | 4,174 | 63/100 |
| ! | 09/02/2025 22:47 | PapaShiz86 | 11,790 | 79/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.7/100, a mean average of 71.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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An Imaginary Country forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/03/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5393): By videoheadcleanerView latest topic →
SleepDealer 07/25/2019 15:58 in What album are you listening to right now?An Imaginary Country comments
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For me, there is little by way of emotional engagement here to sustain any proplonged interest in the material, much of which hardly ever varies. It's the droning and repetitive nature of the music and its allusions to romanticism, that renders it a meandering and monotonous experience.
An Imaginary Country holds some of Hecker's most dense and climatic emotional pieces. Tracks like Borderlands, 200 Years Ago, and Where Shadows Make Shadows are some of his best recordings.
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