Crystal Castles
by Crystal Castles
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Crystal Castles bestography
Crystal Castles is ranked as the best album by Crystal Castles.
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Crystal Castles track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
Crystal Castles rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 90 Music Albums of 2008 | 80/90 | 1 |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 27 Music Albums of 2008 | 7/27 | 4 |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 44 Music Albums of 2008 | 21/44 | 3 |
| 2026 | Lavender | Top 64 Greatest Music Albums | 54/64 | 17 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2008 | 46/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Heineken.es Mejores Discos internacionales 2008 | 11/20 | - |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 90 Music Albums of 2008 | 43/90 | 3 |
| 2026 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 65/100 | 7 |
| 2026 | Gendjar | Top 29 Music Albums of the 2000s | 29/29 | 1 |
| 2026 |  TheDarkOrb | Top 33 Music Albums of 2008 | 2/33 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 275 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,491 | |||
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Crystal Castles ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/30/2026 18:21 |  sssvnnn | 8,489 | 67/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2026 18:39 |  DommeDamian | 7,794 | 48/100 |
| ! | 07/16/2026 11:56 | glebrus | 469 | 81/100 |
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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 75.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.
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Crystal Castles forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/30/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5420): By Chris15789 BestEverAlbums 12/01/2023 17:00 in Monthly overall chart movements - November 2023Crystal Castles comments
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40footwolf 11/30/2009 13:45 | #7375 | TOP COMMENT
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This group confuses me. It's like, why would you go out of your way to sound like Eurotrash? You're Canadian, you've got plenty of stereotypes of your own, quit hogging them all!
ShaneSpear TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/13/2012 08:29 | #35126 | TOP COMMENT
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It's not that bad. I managed to find some good tracks in here, like Magic Spells, Reckless, and the closer Tell Me What to Swallow. It's a shame that there weren't more songs like that closer because eventually a lot of those bleeps and bloops kind of blur together to where it's hard to separate one track from another with the exception of the songs that I listed.
I love this album. It is a great pick me up any time of day for any activity. Especially love it driving, loud with the windows down
Really enjoy listening to this. its fun and IMO underrated on this site.
Forever thankful for this album because it got me into electronic music. Personally to me it is one of those moments where you are like "Wow I didn't know music can sound like this". Objectively speaking, this album does have flaws and has some filler tracks mostly because CC just wanted to put out as much material as possible on their first big release. Still contains many classics and I always find myself going back to it.
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