Half Free
by U.S. Girls
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U.S. Girls bestography
Half Free is ranked 2nd best out of 9 albums by U.S. Girls on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by U.S. Girls is In A Poem Unlimited which is ranked number 1841 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 922.
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Half Free track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Half Free rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 79/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | mttr-in-plc | Top 25 Music Albums of 2015 | 9/25 | 3 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 44/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 7/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 80/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | cestuneblague | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 53/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | mttr-in-plc | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 78/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 58/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 25/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Exclaim! Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums of 2015 | 17/20 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 70 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 229 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/12/2026 21:11 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,684 | 70/100 |
| ! | 10/18/2025 19:31 | RemainInLight | 3,777 | 36/100 |
| ! | 09/01/2025 19:59 | mttr-in-plc | 196 | 88/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.0/100, a mean average of 73.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.
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Half Free forum mentions
cestuneblague 02/15/2020 04:48 in Best solo female albums of the 2010s?
Torchlin 12/31/2018 02:03 in Albums You Added To Your Collection Today
Repo 03/19/2018 12:07 in What album are you listening to right now?Half Free comments
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SquishypuffDave TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/03/2016 05:00 | #155645 | TOP COMMENT
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If I had to summarize it in the most crass reductionist terms possible, I might describe it as Broadcast meets David Lynch meets Cyndi Lauper. But I'm not going to do that because this album just surprises me with something new and unexpected at every turn.
"Oh cool, a cute upbeat surf-rock song whoa this guitar tone is filthy and I'm drowning in distortion! Now this beat keeps skipping and I'm creeped out, but the bassline is so catchy... what the hell is that moaning in the background? Oh, a little intermission with two girls joking on the phone... about some fairly heavy Oedipal stuff and it just ended with creepy echoey 50s sitcom laughter. Okay hang on, since when was this a synthpop album, and how does this seem to fit the overall aesthetic so perfectly?"
Nothing about this album fits neatly in any time period. It's like I'm listening to music from an alternate timeline after America suffered a natural disaster in the 50s and is now mostly covered in desert, but there's a quirky little town centered around a desalination plant that simultaneously functions as a saloon, and the punk movement was spearheaded by people that only listened to surf rock and boogie-woogie piano music, and people have to go out shooting muskrats for dinner, and everyone builds their own electronics and people drive around on rickety little scooters painted with bright colours, and the bubblegum and lipstick industries are still inexplicably booming. There's also probably a lot of sex trafficking. It's a dark timeline.
these aren't the kind of pop songs that are gonna let you off easy.
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