Brill Bruisers
by The New Pornographers
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The New Pornographers bestography
Brill Bruisers is ranked 4th best out of 11 albums by The New Pornographers on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The New Pornographers is Twin Cinema which is ranked number 1663 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,031.
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Brill Bruisers track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Brill Bruisers rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | cicadelic | Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2014 | 21/64 | - |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 26 Music Albums of 2014 | 8/26 | 4 |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 95 Music Albums of 2014 | 75/95 | 1 |
| 2026 | Finky | Top 95 Music Albums of the 2010s | 36/95 | 13 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | CBC The 30 best Canadian albums of 2014 | 9/30 | - |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 73/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 33/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 20/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | my CURRENT favorite artists | 90/100 | - |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 95/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 98 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 304 | |||
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Brill Bruisers ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/27/2026 02:46 | Proto | 4,277 | 33/100 |
| ! | 08/11/2026 10:39 | cicadelic | 13,866 | 73/100 |
| ! | 07/02/2026 02:12 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,604 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 71.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.
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SleepDealer 06/20/2018 18:17 | #217076
Just came back to this. It's a lot better than I remember. I'm revising my score upwards!
This was one of my favorite albums of 2014. Nearly every track is remarkably crafted and full of energy. The only criticism that I might have of the album and the band as well is that they probably have one of the the least dangerous sounds, nearly always free of neurosis, and sometimes we look for a little agony and dysfunction in our music, at least in America. That's why we made the blues, I guess. Maybe it's why the NP album "Challengers," which is unusually melancholy for them, has such staying power for me. The NPs have kind of a white-collar NPR flavor, but what they do they do beautifully, so I'm not sure if this is even a criticism. Their songs are ridiculously catchy. I've gotten a lot of pleasure from their music over the years, and this album was in no way a disappointment.
Very exciting record here! The first song is the best although there are plenty of other great ones here.
paladisiac 12/30/2014 22:37 | #130463 | TOP COMMENT
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The New Pornographers have largely recaptured the magic of their first 3 albums, pumping multiple hooks into the majority of these abnormal pop/rock tracks. The poppiest tracks still mostly emanate from AC, the loveliest from Neko and the strangest from Bejar (harmonica solo!), but the tracks are tighter than they have been since Twin Cinema. If one article i read is true, this is in no small thanks to Kathryn Calder. Thank you, Kathryn. And thank you New Pornographers for once again bringing me an album more complex than simple pop but carrying all of the smiles. (And i still heavily heart Neko.)
pearljammer13 11/01/2014 21:05 | #125983 | TOP COMMENT
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Taking me a little longer to get into this one, but still has several standouts. The title track is pretty difficult not to like.
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