To Lose My Life
by White Lies

Album
To Lose My Life by White Lies
Year: 2009
Release date: 2009-01-19
Overall rank: 4,333rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 181 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2009 (68th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (727th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,333rd)

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To Lose My Life is ranked as the best album by White Lies.

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Overall rank: 4,333rd | 2000s rank: 727th | 2009 rank: 68th  Overall chart history
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73/100 (from 181 votes)
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 !		10/14/2026 10:20 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  16,74170/100
 
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From BestEverAlbums 08/03/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5393): By videoheadcleaner
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From 08/02/2013 00:32 | #82935 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Probably my favorite album of the past 5 years. My one and only issue is that they claim they don't like Joy Division, despite sounding a fair bit like a poppier, more modern Joy Division ...
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75/100
From 03/02/2015 11:35 | #135915 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Great album along the lines of Interpol meets the Editors.
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65/100
From 09/27/2013 17:16 | #86968 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I think it was a great debut, lots of great tunes in this album. But, despite I think is a good album, I was never in love with it, that`s why I havent even follow their other two albums.
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95/100
From 02/07/2019 01:03 | #231469 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
One of my favourites. Death is a fantastic opener and sets the tone for the rest of the album. Wouldn't compare them to Editors I would say this is much better than The Back Room ever was.
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From 02/07/2022 16:05 | #280915 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Average but nothing more than that. Interesting that one person said they thought it was better than Editors In the Back Room. Thought the opposite tbh...although Editors really tailed off after their strong debut
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