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The best album credited to alt-J is An Awesome Wave which is ranked number 225 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 7,525.

alt-J is ranked number 209 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 10,095.

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alt-J best albums

The following albums by alt-J are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:

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2012
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2014
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2017
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2022
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233
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2016
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11
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2018
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7
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Total albums: 7. Page 1 of 1

This may not be a complete discography for alt-J.This listing only shows those albums by this artist that appear in at least one chart on this site. If an album is 'missing' that you think deserves to be here, you can include it in your own chart from the My Charts page!

alt-J bestography composition

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Live? Albums %
No 5 71%
Yes 2 29%

alt-J best tracks

Include tracks from compilations & live albums | Exclude tracks from compilations & live albums The same track can appear on multiple albums, so excluding tracks from compilations and live albums helps to remove duplicates from this list.

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Rating: 88 (289 votes)Comments: 2
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Rating: 86 (248 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album An Awesome Wave)
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Rating: 86 (223 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album An Awesome Wave)
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Rating: 85 (225 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album An Awesome Wave)
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Rating: 85 (118 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album This Is All Yours)
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Rating: 85 (225 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album An Awesome Wave)
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Rating: 85 (97 votes)Comments: 3
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(from the album Relaxer)
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Rating: 84 (132 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album This Is All Yours)
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Rating: 84 (218 votes)Comments: 4
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(from the album An Awesome Wave)
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Rating: 84 (203 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album An Awesome Wave)
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Rating: 84 (202 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album An Awesome Wave)
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Rating: 84 (110 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album This Is All Yours)
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Rating: 83 (104 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album This Is All Yours)
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Rating: 82 (89 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album Relaxer)
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Rating: 82 (100 votes)Comments: 0
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(from the album This Is All Yours)
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Rating: 82 (78 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album Relaxer)
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Rating: 82 (95 votes)Comments: 3
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(from the album This Is All Yours)
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Rating: 82 (96 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album This Is All Yours)
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Rating: 81 (190 votes)Comments: 2
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(from the album An Awesome Wave)
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Rating: 81 (89 votes)Comments: 1
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(from the album This Is All Yours)
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alt-J ratings

Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 60 votes)
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This artist is rated in the top 11% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 77.5/100, a mean average of 76.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.9/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 15.8.

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80/100
From 06/26/2023 16:46
My personal 'Alt-J' ranking albums :

1- An Awesome Wave (2012) => 79,6
2- RELAXER (2017) => 75,6
3- This Is All Yours (2014) => 74,2
4- The Dream (2022) => 72,3

If I had to create a 'Best of Alt-J', it would be made of 13 tracks :

- Intro (2012) => 80
- Breezeblocks (2012) => 85
- Something Good (2012) => 80
- Dissolve Me (2012) => 80
- Matilda (2012) => 90
- Fitzpleasure (2012) => 85
- Taro (2012) => 80
- Nara (2014) => 80
- 3WW (2017) => 85
- In Cold Blood (2017) => 80
- Pleader (2017) => 80
- Hard Drive Gold (2022) => 80
- Happier When You're Gone (2022) => 85
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From 09/29/2019 18:34
Alt-J is fantastic by its originality, beautiful sound, atmospheric music, and great lyrics despite what people say(except maybe in RELAXER).

Their debut album is an absolute masterpiece, very underrated on this site. I like also the conceptual This Is All Yours and the controversial RELAXER, the last one receiving to much hate in my humble opinion.

They have plenty of great tracks : Dissolve Me, Fitzpleasure, 3WW, Tesselate, In Cold Blood, Every Other Freckle and the classic Breezeblocks. My favourite song is Taro. I love especially the intro and the magic sound in the chorus, but the lyrics are meaningful as well: it is about Robert Capa, a war photographer.

Alt-J is probably in my top five bands of the 2010s, but thats just an opinion ;)
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90/100
From 03/18/2018 17:20
I have no idea why so many people seem to have a Problem with the singers voice. It is so relaxing. One of my favourite bands for sure. But don't ever look up the lyrics...
Favourites:
Breezeblocks
Mathilda
In cold blood

Least favourites:
Hit me Like that snare
Hunger of the pine
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55/100
From 05/01/2017 14:02
Interesting, sometimes very good songs but awful vocals. Well, if I could ignore the vocals I'd like them so much more
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From 03/21/2017 05:32
In an efforted attempt to create something different and unique, Alt-J succeeds with flying colors and satisfies the ears of all those who are willing to listen to new things.
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From 12/13/2015 00:37
Fantastic music. So many of their songs are incredibly varied. My vote for band of the decade based on two albums.
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From 10/27/2015 05:07
This is probably one of the most original bands I've ever heard. No one sounds anything like them. An Awesome Wave was really good, but their follow up was not so much. Hopefully they put out a good third album.
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From 10/03/2015 21:19
This band grows in my estimation, with every new listen.
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65/100
From 09/08/2015 03:58
They definitely have a lot of talent, and some of their songs are really good, but I think I'd like them a lot more if the singer had a voice less...grating. They also have quite a few songs that are just boring. But they do have 4 or 5 songs per album that are very much worth listening
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From 09/26/2014 20:22
Although i do like 'an awesome wave' and somewhat like 'this is all yours' im not to big of a fan. I think they have some good songs and they're albums are put together very well, but there is just something about them that i really dont like. Every time i listen to them i get a strange distant vibe that their music is to 'pop', or is headed in that direction. I thought i was right about this when i heard 'hunger of the pines' (which i hate) but there are still some good ones on their new album
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