Sprained Ankle
by Julien Baker
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Sprained Ankle is ranked as the best album by Julien Baker.
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Sprained Ankle track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Sprained Ankle rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | henrygreen0203 | Is it Live?? - Acts That Have Performed Live in Front of My Face | 46/78 | - |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Ranked listening log 2015 101-144 | 9/44 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Aquarium Drunkard 2015 Year in Review | 71/78 | - |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 90/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 43 Music Albums of 2015 | 34/43 | 1 |
| 2026 | AledJames | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 23/100 | 77 |
| 2026 |  RasmV | Top 57 Music Albums of 2015 | 43/57 | 1 |
| 2026 | Drbassexpert24 | Top 25 Music Albums of 2015 | 20/25 | 1 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 34/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 45/100 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 99 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 476 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/07/2026 01:48 |  baystateoftheart | 2,890 | 72/100 |
| ! | 07/13/2026 05:29 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,684 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/06/2026 22:30 | Map | 524 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.0.
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Sprained Ankle forum mentions
baystateoftheart 10/05/2021 20:20 in You must listen to the album below you: canon edition Purplepash 10/03/2021 08:21 in What album are you listening to right now?
dihansse 03/27/2021 20:59 in My discoveries per yearSprained Ankle comments
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I remember her debut being the talk of the town back in 2015, yet I somehow never got to listen to it – I mean, Folk-based Singer/Songwriter sounds something I’d easily give a pass without a second thought, so it's not that big of a surprise. Better late than never, I had to see what the fuss is about in order to properly evaluate this one. My initial suspicion was both confirmed and refuted. On the one hand, it feels like I’ve heard all about it before, nothing groundbreaking that sets her apart from her peers, at least from a strictly technical point of view. On the other hand, she can really speak to your heart. A deeply personal, honest, courageously confessional accounting of her struggles, sufferings, fears, insecurities, self-diminishing thoughts. She also touches some more abstract matters, like religious themes, but manages to remain relatable by displaying their impact on her private affairs, i.e. addiction or interpersonal relationships. The music takes a back seat, it's secondary to the point of almost being non-existent, it’s there just to further emphasise the message. Sometimes she goes over the top, e.g. Rejoice should in theory be the most powerful moment of the album, but it was simply too much for the light-hearted me. Actually, there’s a line in Brittle Boned that summarises the whole album "Cause I’m so good at hurting myself".
luigybetis TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/06/2018 22:37 | #226374 | TOP COMMENT
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It's not something that I will listen every day, but it is not bad at all. 7/10.
And just when we thought that Carrie and Lowell was the most depressing album of 2015....
HoldenM TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/14/2015 08:10 | #154530 | TOP COMMENT
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An album like this should make me want to tell Julien Baker to get a grip. Instead, I just want to cry with her. She just gets it.
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