Dots And Loops
by Stereolab
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Dots And Loops is ranked as the best album by Stereolab.
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Dots And Loops track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Dots And Loops rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | brent13 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 63/100 | 8 |
| 2026 |  ERadio | Top 50 Music Albums of 1997 | 18/50 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 90 Music Albums of 1997 | 79/90 | 1 |
| 2026 |  LedZep | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 94/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 39 Music Albums of 1997 | 23/39 | 2 |
| 2026 |  JoaoMoreira | Top 12 Music Albums of 1997 | 7/12 | 3 |
| 2026 | mttr-in-plc | Top 41 Music Albums of the 1990s | 3/41 | 19 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1997 | 15/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 76 Music Albums of 1997 | 2/76 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 78 Music Albums of 1997 | 45/78 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 251 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,779 | |||
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Dots And Loops ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/12/2026 20:46 | liquidbottle | 775 | 82/100 |
| ! | 06/15/2026 00:27 |  AvalancheGrips | 779 | 85/100 |
| ! | 05/29/2026 09:03 | Liks_on_music | 656 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.7/100, a mean average of 79.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.4.
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Forgot how good it was. (Edited)
Consistently relaxing with a nice French feel. 8.5/10! (Edited)
This album takes a huge dive in terms of its quality after the first 4 songs and it never really recovers from that point. The first 4 tracks are incredible and they really get you in the mood to listen to Stereolab. They capture that electronic style they are going for perfectly and if this was consistently maintained this would be their greatest record. It is chilled, infectious and has some amazing instrumental and vocal moments on there. The sound is so delicate and it just feels so smooth and joyful to listen to. In my opinion, after this the quality takes a big hit and you go down to average or filler tracks for basically the rest of the record. They don't capture that magic again on this record and you are left with the really drawn out conclusion to this release which gets very boring. Overall, an album that has so much potential but they seem to lose their way half way through and the music becomes really dull and uninteresting.
discojets1 04/11/2017 01:34 | #189040 | TOP COMMENT
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jazzier chiller and more polarising than Stereolab's other albums, but my personal favorite. (Edited)
yuppie 05/16/2016 01:47 | #166102 | TOP COMMENT
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The more you listen to it, it keeps getting better and better, thanks to Youtube for showing me this in the recommended section. (Edited)
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