Microcastle
by Deerhunter
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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 287 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,652.
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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 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 | cicadelic | The Rock Blogger Best Albums 2008 | 11/48 | - |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 33/100 | 14 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2008 | 12/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 76/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 86 Music Albums of 2008 | 67/86 | 1 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 24 Music Albums of 2008 | 16/24 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Nacho212 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 16/100 | 79 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 2008 | 25/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 90 Music Albums of 2008 | 5/90 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 49 Music Albums of 2008 | 32/49 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 405 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 2,321 | |||
Microcastle collection
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Microcastle ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/03/2026 09:34 | Purplepash | 5,003 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2026 19:16 |  DommeDamian | 7,837 | 48/100 |
| ! | 07/12/2026 19:34 | liquidbottle | 775 | 82/100 |
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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 79.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.1.
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Microcastle forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 10/07/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5458): By Jorbaa BestEverAlbums 07/25/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5384): By ssteveMicrocastle comments
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This album is just so fucking cool it's ridiculous. The aura of sounds and psychedelic atmospheres that are created by Bradford Cox and the gang just utterly encapsulates you from the very first listen. Whilst the middle-section of the album loses a little strength, the end picks up to a very strong finish.
bonafini 07/17/2013 19:38 | #81747 | TOP COMMENT
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Few would agree with me but this is one of the best albums ever. Incredibly touching lyrics and melodies, this gets shoegaze to a totally new level. Unique.
Microcastle makes you understand how you can be comfortable with dark and depressive feelings. Deep and authentic, it expresses the sweetness of loneliness. Unique, totally unique.
poppmusic TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/25/2015 08:28 | #153427 | TOP COMMENT
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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.
Cargusbralem 09/05/2018 19:31 | #220616 | TOP COMMENT
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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.
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