Noble Beast (studio album)
by Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird bestography
Noble Beast is ranked 5th best out of 24 albums by Andrew Bird on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Andrew Bird is Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs which is ranked number 1710 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 986.
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Noble Beast track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 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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| ! | 12/07/2025 16:09 | Araldo | 1,469 | 80/100 |
| ! | 10/06/2025 12:20 | TonySayers61 | 23,195 | 64/100 |
| ! | 10/28/2024 03:10 | Skerns | 5,059 | 80/100 |
| ! | 08/25/2023 13:16 |  DommeDamian | 7,296 | 49/100 |
| ! | 03/20/2023 16:32 | Kali | 692 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.1.
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louisjwyatt 02/06/2015 02:41 | #134084
His best album by far. If the whistling in Oh No doesn't grab you right away, goddamn.
This album is at times both brilliant and frustrating. Oh No, Fitz and Dizzyspells and Effigy are remarkably pretty and melodic songs. Masterswarm and Souverian are lengthier tracks, with interesting structures and moments of smart complexity. On the other side of things, the album is held back by sections that fall into bland faceless folky-indieness, or rely to much on witty wordplay instead of Andrew Bird's compositional talent.
paladisiac 12/09/2011 18:12 | #32493
Just as solid as his previous album. It might as well be a sequel. Consistent-but-not-great, so it's probable this will be overlooked by more ambitious albums later on. He has a way with twisting english idioms apparent in track names like "anoanimal", "souverian" and "nomenclature". He continues to be a clever songwriter.
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