The Look (track)
by Metronomy
Year: 2011
From the album The English Riviera (track #4)
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The Look appears on the following album(s) by Metronomy:
- The English Riviera (track #4) (this album) (2011)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 07/02/2026 17:35 | Exist-en-ciel | 168,615 | 71/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 23:46 | Dovahkin | 240 | 85/100 |
| ! | 11/24/2024 23:18 | SD100852 | 12,069 | 77/100 |
| ! | 11/29/2023 18:21 | mash | 4,567 | 92/100 |
| ! | 11/28/2023 07:54 | AndyLish79 | 13,218 | 84/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 84.6/100, a mean average of 84.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.1.
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I agree with DeusExMachina. Youtube jumped me to this track and when I listened it I felt like I hadn't for a while. After a few listens I don't consider it a masterpiece anymore but still it has a fantastic keyboard riff combining with great vocals.
DeusExMackia 09/19/2018 22:26 | #221314
Phenomenal subtly in its words and sound, and gorgeous production place this high among rankings of the best songs of the last decade in my book.
One of those rare tracks that manages to elicit an amazingly intense emotional response - I think it's something about that slightly forboding tone, the tension in the lyrics and the deftness of its minimalist delivery that combine to drag up thoughts and feelings you haven't explored in a long time.
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