The Letting Go
by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy bestography
The Letting Go is ranked 2nd best out of 37 albums by Will Oldham on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Will Oldham is I See A Darkness which is ranked number 972 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,794.
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The Letting Go track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 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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| 02/11/2026 05:27 |  Norman Bates | 10,115 | 75/100 | |
| 12/11/2025 10:51 | Exist-en-ciel | 11,413 | 70/100 | |
| 12/07/2025 16:30 | Araldo | 1,472 | 80/100 | |
| 10/15/2025 00:06 | Proto | 4,161 | 33/100 | |
| 07/03/2025 00:13 |  LedZep | 5,043 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.5/100, a mean average of 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.
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Repo 03/26/2017 21:14 | #188153
Will Oldham should really have changed his moniker again for this one. Because he's all grown up. This is no longer Will channeling a Bonnie "Prince" Billie to sing about the darkest recesses of his soul. This is just Will. Producing some of the best mature country & indie rock songs about love and hurt out there. These songs stand on their own without any of that drama and theater that our boy Will is sort of known for. And the harmonies with Dawn McCarthy are simply dead on. In a lot ways this may be the best album of Oldham's career. It’s certainly more consistent than his better known work I See A Darkness.
Grade: A. Super solid mature country/indie rock album that holds up well to multiple replays. These are timeless songs that are perhaps the best of Will’s impeccable & prolific career. I like this even more than No Other so this moves all the way up to number three.
Really something spectacular. None of the trappings of the indie folk that had become so common at this point.
Will Oldham goes to Iceland, and write this stunning record with the help of the smooth voice of Dawn McCarthy.
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