Light Upon The Lake
by Whitney

Album
Light Upon The Lake by Whitney
Year: 2016
Release date: 2016-06-03
Overall rank: 1,844th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 178 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2016 (29th)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (297th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,844th)

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Light Upon The Lake is ranked as the best album by Whitney.

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Light Upon The Lake track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
No Woman
Average Rating: 83 (47 votes)Comments: View 1
2.
The Falls
Average Rating: 80 (37 votes)Comments: View 0
3.
Golden Days
Average Rating: 81 (36 votes)Comments: View 0
4.
Dave's Song
Average Rating: 80 (36 votes)Comments: View 0
5.
Light Upon The Lake
Average Rating: 80 (35 votes)Comments: View 0
6.
No Matter Where We Go
Average Rating: 81 (37 votes)Comments: View 0
7.
On My Own
Average Rating: 78 (33 votes)Comments: View 0
8.
Red Moon
Average Rating: 76 (33 votes)Comments: View 0
9.
Polly
Average Rating: 80 (35 votes)Comments: View 0
10.
Follow
Average Rating: 78 (35 votes)Comments: View 0

Light Upon The Lake rankings

Light Upon The Lake rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,844th | 2010s rank: 297th | 2016 rank: 29th  Overall chart history
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Light Upon The Lake ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 178 votes)
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 !		09/22/2026 09:16 ASOARE  Ratings distribution  2,57278/100
 
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 !		09/21/2026 20:31 imimesis  Ratings distribution  2,12581/100
 
70/100
 !		07/08/2026 17:57 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  16,26570/100

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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 77.0/100, a mean average of 76.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.


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Light Upon The Lake forum mentions

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From imacgill 09/11/2026 23:00 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
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From dihansse 12/09/2019 21:15 in My discoveries per year
“And the remaining albums of 2016 in the overall BEA top 2500 were albums I didn't really dislike but none of them interested me enough to include them in my 2016 year chart: (nr 27 of 2016 and 2468 overall): not really a a fan of the singer but the lush orchestration sometimes tempted me (nr 26 of…”
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Light Upon The Lake comments

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70/100
From 07/16/2016 09:52 | #171395 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
If Neil Young and Big Star had a child, it would be Whitney.
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95/100
From 03/02/2017 12:29 | #186644 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Deserves to be rated higher within 2016. Great album with some beautiful songs.
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50/100
From 12/31/2016 13:07 | #181370 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Brilliant album! Julien Ehrlich's voice is a bit of an acquired taste; but, once you get past it you'll uncover an all-round great album. The instrumentation is fantastic, the lyricism is great, it's just a really fun album to listen to.
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100/100
From 10/20/2016 19:07 | #177221 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Amazing album! All the tracks shines with beautiful melodies. A little masterpiece.
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80/100
From 02/02/2018 07:44 | #206992 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Some really great melodies here. Enough variety to stay interesting throughout.

Best tracks: Golden Days, No Woman, Polly
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