Lamp Lit Prose | ||||
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Released | July 13, 2018 | |||
Studio | Ivo Shandor (Los Angeles, CA) | |||
Genre | Progressive pop[1] | |||
Length | 37:19 | |||
Label | Domino | |||
Producer | David Longstreth | |||
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Singles from Lamp Lit Prose | ||||
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Lamp Lit Prose is the eighth studio album by American experimental rock group Dirty Projectors, and was released on Domino Records on July 13, 2018.[2]
The album was produced by David Longstreth at his Los Angeles studio.[3]
The band supported the album with a tour, which began in May 2018 with significant personnel changes.[4]
They released the first single off the album, "Break-Thru", on May 2 along with a music video.[5][6] In Spin, Andy Cush described the single as sounding "more immediately Dirty Projectors-ish than anything on the self-titled album" released in 2017.[3]
On June 14, they released a second single, "That's a Lifestyle", with an animated music video by Kitty Faingold.[7] In Stereogum, Chris DeVille also contrasted this single with the tenor of Dirty Projectors, saying "That's A Lifestyle" echoed earlier albums "Bitte Orca and Swing Lo Magellan, the pop-minded prog exercises that transformed Dirty Projectors from underground oddities to full-fledged indie rock stars. It's a magnificently pretty guitar tapestry that never lets its complexity smother the pop appeal."[8]
On July 12, the day before the album's release, the band released their third single, "I Feel Energy".[9]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AnyDecentMusic? | 7.3/10[10] |
Metacritic | 77/100[11] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [12] |
The A.V. Club | B+[13] |
Entertainment Weekly | B[14] |
The Guardian | [15] |
The Independent | [16] |
Mojo | [17] |
NME | [18] |
Pitchfork | 7.4/10[19] |
Rolling Stone | [1] |
Uncut | 8/10[20] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 77, based on 27 reviews.[11] At Rolling Stone, Will Hermes called the album "a flood of ideas and magnificent vocal arrangements" which he found "by turns dazzling and exhausting."[1] Jazz Monroe of Pitchfork praised the album's "more hopeful, chipper kind of songwriting."[19]
All tracks are written by David Longstreth, except "(I Wanna) Feel It All" by Longstreth, Nat Baldwin and Mike Johnson
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Right Now" (featuring Syd) | 3:39 |
2. | "Break-Thru" | 3:47 |
3. | "That's a Lifestyle" (featuring Haim) | 4:22 |
4. | "I Feel Energy" (featuring Amber Mark) | 4:37 |
5. | "Zombie Conqueror" (featuring Empress Of) | 3:45 |
6. | "Blue Bird" | 3:49 |
7. | "Found It in U" | 3:27 |
8. | "What Is the Time" | 3:14 |
9. | "You're the One" (featuring Robin Pecknold and Rostam) | 2:18 |
10. | "(I Wanna) Feel It All" (featuring Dear Nora) | 4:21 |
Total length: | 37:19 |
No. | Title | Length |
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11. | "What Is the Time" (Early Orchestration) | 1:23 |
12. | "You're the One" (Early Orchestration) | 2:19 |
13. | "That's a Lifestyle" (Early Instrumental) | 4:14 |
Total length: | 45:15 |
Chart (2018) | Peak position |
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Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[22] | 122 |
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[23] | 153 |
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[24] | 17 |
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[25] | 17 |