Any Other City
by Life Without Buildings
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Any Other City track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/16/2026 18:03 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,377 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/02/2026 23:41 | TastyandTemptin | 3,175 | 72/100 |
| ! | 02/26/2026 06:19 | matterhornrider | 5,120 | 81/100 |
| ! | 01/01/2026 00:34 |  MadhattanJack | 5,990 | 66/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 18:05 | mutant | 1,671 | 56/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.
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seb7 10/26/2022 02:55 | #290807 | TOP COMMENT
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vaguely reminiscent of the sundays but a little punkier
Too late to fall in love with this now, I'm afraid. Back in the day they would've been a great gateway band to The Slits and some cool math rock. Still, the songs sound fresh and convey genuine feeling. And despite the mathy arrangements the grooves are pretty agreeable - they clearly prefer the sweeter stuff from the dissonant bands they draw from (SY's Schizophrenia came to mind more than once). (Edited)
flamingyesdept 08/30/2016 16:30 | #173810 | TOP COMMENT
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some really wonderful alternative indie
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