The Loon
by Tapes 'n Tapes
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The Loon track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Loon rankings
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The Loon ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/31/2026 20:01 | PapaShiz86 | 11,664 | 79/100 |
| ! | 01/08/2026 11:24 | Leginlists | 3,786 | 83/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 16:08 | Araldo | 1,472 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/28/2025 01:09 | dhbarrett | 8,675 | 65/100 |
| ! | 05/20/2024 13:59 |  dihansse | 6,366 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.0/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.7.
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paladisiac 12/09/2011 22:14 | #32539
This is indie pop with college-age sensibilities. There's a lot of compressed fuzz and feedback on this album. "insistor" is the charging BOMB ("And when you rush I'll call your name / Like Harvard Square holds all inane / And don't you know I'll be your badger") while "crazy eights" is a chugging, distorted hum-along. "cowfire" comes with spitfire atop a fast-strummed acoustic number.
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