The Dream Walker
by Angels & Airwaves
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The Dream Walker is ranked 6th best out of 6 albums by Angels & Airwaves on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Angels & Airwaves is We Don't Need To Whisper which is ranked number 4996 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 281.
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The Dream Walker track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Dream Walker rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 1 hour ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  21stCenturySchiz | blink-182 Ranked! | 18/24 | - |
| 2025 | AlienCinema | Top 100 Music Albums of 2014 | 53/100 | 2 |
| 2021 |  PanheadWarrior | Top 55 Music Albums of 2014 | 45/55 | 1 |
| 2016 | DaveIsGone | Top 10 Greatest Music Albums | 6/10 | - |
| 2016 | Radioslang | Top 10 Greatest Music Albums | 6/10 | - |
| 2016 | markrollins | Top 10 Greatest Music Albums | 4/10 | - |
| 2016 | Rainallover | Top 10 Greatest Music Albums | 6/10 | - |
| 2016 | SunshineString | Top 10 Greatest Music Albums | 6/10 | - |
| 2016 | neveragainmatt | Top 10 Greatest Music Albums | 5/10 | - |
| 2016 | TerriblePlace | Top 10 Greatest Music Albums | 5/10 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 26 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 9 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/12/2025 20:59 |  MagicSix | 1,144 | 60/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2024 18:43 | PapaShiz86 | 11,845 | 79/100 |
| ! | 05/22/2024 16:44 |  zwiebel | 4,165 | 56/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 63.4/100, a mean average of 59.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 59.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 26.4.
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Kamens 09/15/2016 05:09 | #175006
In order to balance out the obvious stream of either 1) bots, or 2) users creating accounts for the sole purpose of inflating Angels and Airwaves albums, I am giving this a 5/100. Without the influx of stupidity, it would still be about a 30/100, because this album is terrible.
It has its moments. It seems to be underrated by some and overrated by others. Ilan Rubin has been a breath of fresh air, as his noir-synthetic sound has freshened up AVA's music. I also do appreciate that Tom is trying to infuse his raw, punk roots into the spacey aesthetic of Angels and Airwaves.
The production is really awkward and the album has no real cohesion from song-to-song. You can tell pretty much from the first few seconds whether each track is a Tom song or Ilan song. Tom's pop punk dittys like "Bullets In The Wind" and "Paralyzed" line up awkwardly next to the dark synthetic tracks like "The Wolfpack" or "Kiss With A Spell". And then the album closes with a very strangely implemented acoustic track (Anomaly) and while it's a good song, it feels like a gratuitous folksy token-ballad amidst a creepy science fiction landscape. It just doesn't fit.
I feel like Angels and Airwaves needs to find a better equilibrium between Ilan's dreamy synth elements and Tom's raw punk edge. They find it a few times on tracks like "Teenagers & Rituals" and "The Disease" but they should have made an entire album out of it -- it's too jarring and inconsistent to see these punk and electronic tracks lined up next to each other. However, I think they end up accomplishing this on the subsequent two EPs (Of Nightmares and Chasing Shadows) so I am excited to see what we will get next from them.
Love Part Two did nothing for me, so this by default was a step forward. That said, it still gets nowhere close to the first two AVA records. Honestly, the best songs to come out of these sessions were "The Fighting Season" and "Into the Night" and they didn't even make the record.
Highlights: Tunnels, The Wolfpack, Teenagers & Rituals
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