Microcastle (studio album)
by Deerhunter
Deerhunter bestography
Microcastle is ranked 2nd best out of 13 albums by Deerhunter on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Deerhunter is Halcyon Digest which is ranked number 279 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,940.
(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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Microcastle track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Microcastle ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 3 days ago | mutant | 1,634 | 55/100 |
| ! | 12/15/2025 14:58 | Devilwoac | 257 | 94/100 |
| ! | 11/29/2025 06:01 | Exist-en-ciel | 4,816 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/06/2025 08:13 |  Tamthebam | 22,861 | 69/100 |
| ! | 10/07/2025 02:41 | JacobMullis | 732 | 88/100 |
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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 79.8/100, a mean average of 79.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.1.
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VictorVale 11/18/2022 20:43 | #291402
Acerta demais nas distorções!
A very psychedelic and trippy experience with some top quality songs mixed in as well. The atmosphere on this album is simply brilliant. This is due to the experimental and psychedelic nature of the album which is created perfectly by the combination of instruments. All of them are used to such great effect as well and they all play their part in making the album feel very cohesive. The highlights, in regards to songs, for me are Agoraphobia, Never Stops and Nothing Ever Happened the latter being my personal favourite. However, there is quite a significant and noticeable dip in quality around the middle of the album. While it is only 3 or 4 songs where it is pretty average it still drags the whole record down in my opinion. Overall, a record with a lot to love and it has some of my favourite ever Deerhunter songs on here.
Boltzmann 04/08/2021 15:15 | #268330
It has its moments I guess, but it didn't really push the genre forward. Rather, it sounds like a myriad of '80s and '90s alt rock bands (like all indie rock after the turn of the millennium).
I love the cover art.
DriftingOrpheus 03/29/2020 21:10 | #249273
Tremendous record for a band who was really finding their sound at this time. Stunning Indie work....
Very consistent. Love this album!
Favorite tracks: Cover Me Slowly, Agoraphobia, Never Stops, Nothing Ever Happened
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Cargusbralem 09/05/2018 19:31 | #220616
Awesome record. I love how those three filler-type tracks in the middle (Cavalry Scars, Green Jacket, Activa) actually act as a filter to anybody who is not interested enough in the album to give a complete listen (I believe that's the band's actual purpose for those tracks, according to a short documentary I watched on YouTube).
Go ahead, sit through those few minutes of weird trippiness, because it will be rewarded with possibly the best or at least one of the top three Deerhunter tracks right afterwards, along with an equally awesome second half of the album compared to the first.
Fantastic album that really rewards repeated listening.
poppmusic 11/25/2015 08:28 | #153427
I want to love this album unconditionally...it's so fantastic in so many ways, it reaches probably farther than the band ever reached. Unfortunately, it sometimes languishes in the noisy abyss found by many shoegaze-alt bands of this sort. Amply corrected on the follow-up "Halcyon Digest", yet this is still a fantastic album, should be much more highly considered.
HoldenM 01/02/2015 09:21 | #130628
I did not expect to like this as much as I did. This is probably my favorite Deerhunter album.
Gooz 04/04/2014 19:26 | #108503
Organic as hell!
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