Knife Play
by Xiu Xiu
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Xiu Xiu bestography
Knife Play is ranked 8th best out of 25 albums by Xiu Xiu on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Xiu Xiu is A Promise which is ranked number 3192 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 478.
(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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Knife Play track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Knife Play rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 70/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2002 | 73/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 2002 | 24/77 | - |
| 2026 | ThuramThugood | Ranked - Xiu Xiu (US) - Ranked | 4/28 | - |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 52 Music Albums of 2002 | 46/52 | 1 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Greatest Goth albums (101 - 200) by Ultimate Record Collection | 62/98 | - |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 50 Music Albums of 2002 | 48/50 | 0 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 55 Music Albums of 2002 | 33/55 | 2 |
| 2025 | juanr1096 | Top 98 Music Albums of 2002 | 26/98 | 4 |
| 2025 |  johnner | Top 13 Music Albums of 2002 | 7/13 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 40 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 134 | |||
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Knife Play ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 07/01/2026 01:36 | Helios | 6,273 | 69/100 |
| ! | 06/16/2026 10:48 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,717 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/29/2026 17:13 |  colonelchibbers | 2,974 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.7/100, a mean average of 75.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.
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Knife Play forum mentions
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Knife Play comments
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Great for listening at night.
Favorite tracks: Don Diasco, I Broke Up, Hives Hives, Over Over, Suha, Poe Poe, Homunculus
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Visceral. I mean holy fuck this just punches you in the gut and then runs over you with a truck when you're still lying on the floor trying to make sense and recover from what just happened
Certainly his most honest and exposed, if not his most violent. This is not any Xiu Xiu I'm familiar with, taken to a much higher level than any of his other work I've heard.
seb7 11/09/2022 05:49 | #291160 | TOP COMMENT
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some really good tracks but I really like when the moments when the melodies or instrumentation shine through. A lot of the noisier stuff doesn't do it for me
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