Kintsugi
by Death Cab For Cutie
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Death Cab For Cutie bestography
Kintsugi is ranked 7th best out of 17 albums by Death Cab For Cutie on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Death Cab For Cutie is Transatlanticism which is ranked number 450 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,722.
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Kintsugi track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Kintsugi 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 |
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| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 50 Music Albums of 2015 | 42/50 | 1 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 92 Music Albums of 2015 | 82/92 | 1 |
| 2026 | sunnydhamm | Top 37 Music Albums of 2015 | 14/37 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Indie Rocks! 100 mejores discos de 2015 | 21/100 | - |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 27 Music Albums of 2015 | 22/27 | 1 |
| 2026 |  nitomano | Top 39 Music Albums of 2015 | 12/39 | 4 |
| 2026 |  paladisiac | top albums, #1901-2000* | 13/80 | - |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 95 Music Albums of 2015 | 45/95 | 3 |
| 2026 | Drbassexpert24 | Top 25 Music Albums of 2015 | 7/25 | 4 |
| 2026 |  rambleon80 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 92/100 | 9 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 74 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 221 | |||
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Kintsugi ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/15/2026 10:23 |  Tamthebam | 23,301 | 69/100 |
| ! | 07/13/2026 02:18 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,824 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/16/2026 16:45 | daCritic | 4,639 | 73/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.7/100, a mean average of 69.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.1.
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shoopadoowop 06/28/2015 04:24 in Shoopadoowop's ULLKintsugi comments
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HoldenM TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/23/2015 20:53 | #137607 | TOP COMMENT
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It's extremely hard for me to be impartial when it comes to Death Cab. I'll probably adore anything they do. Kintsugi is probably Death Cab's least actively unified album. Stylistically, it's all over the place. There's also a strange lack of songs fading in and out of one another. And I would be lying if I didn't miss jam out tracks in the same vein as "Doors Unlocked and Open," "I Will Possess Your Heart," or "Transatlanticism." Still, this is a really good album that I can tell is going to grow on me.
A bit underwhelming considering their past achievements, but generally a pretty solid album that takes a little while to grow on you.
rogue 03/31/2015 18:24 | #138421 | TOP COMMENT
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I seem to love this band sporadically and it's without rhyme or reason.
Same goes with this record. I heard one song on the radio I didn't like, gave this a try and love it.
This album makes me mad. It is good and it is bad at the same time. Sometimes, the songs are working and you can feel and understand what Gibbard is trying to say (No Room In Frame, The Ghosts of Beverly Drive, Everything's A Ceiling, El Dorado, Ingenue). And sometimes, it just doesn't work (Binary Sea, Black Sun). Even the songs themselves are sometimes good, sometimes bad. I really like the verses of "Black Sun" and the guitar solo is amazing, but the choruses... I just don't get why they have to repeat it that many times without any progression at all. Same thing with "Little Wanderer", great verses, but the choruses are boring and childish. And you can say the exact same thing about "Good Help (Is Hard To Find)". "You've Haunted Me All My Life" sounds like a song they've done before, except they've done it way better in the past.
A very insonsistent album from a great band. Not a bad album by any mean, but Death Cab For Cutie can do (and have done) better than that.
There are moments on this record that shine, but it’s almost as if the bland, lowest common denominator indie rock is catching up to Death Cab’s sound and, even more heartbreaking to say, Ben’s lyrics.
That’s not to say the record is bad (No Room in Frame, Ghosts of Beverly Drive, Good Help, and El Dorado are high points), and the guitars sound good, but it’s a little too middle of the road. (Edited)
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