| 100 Lovers | ||||
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| Released | February 28, 2011 | |||
| Studio | Wavelab Studio, Tucson, Arizona NFA, Denver, Colorado | |||
| Genre | Indie folk, Gypsy punk | |||
| Length | 44:38 | |||
| Label | Anti- | |||
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100 Lovers is the sixth studio album by American indie folk band DeVotchKa. It was released by Anti- Records on February 28, 2011.
The first music video "100 Other Lovers" was released on February 3, 2011, and directed by Chloe Rodham. [1]
Devotchka released the music video to "All the Sand in All the Sea" on their official YouTube on February 15, 2011. [2]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 6.4/10 [3] |
| Metacritic | 72/100 [4] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [5] |
| The Austin Chronicle | [6] |
| The A.V. Club | B [7] |
| Consequence of Sound | B [8] |
| Los Angeles Times | [9] |
| Paste | 7.8/10 [10] |
| Pitchfork | 5.3/10 [11] |
| PopMatters | 7/10 [12] |
| Slant Magazine | [13] |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | [14] |
100 Lovers was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 72 based on 18 reviews. [4] At AnyDecentMusic?, the album was given a 6.4 out of 10 based on a critical consensus 17 reviews. [3]
The AllMusic review by James Christopher Monger awarded the album 3.5 stars stating "It's a melting pot to be sure, and the band has a tendency to go heavy on the atmosphere and light on the hooks, but there’s never any doubt that it’s a brew tended over by some awfully talented cooks." [5] At Pitchfork , David Bevan wrote: "100 Lovers, with its interludes, clever sequencing, and the appropriately titled instrumental "Sunshine", feels less like a grouping of songs as it does an entirely different animal altogether." [11] Melanie Haupt of The Austin Chronicle gave a four out of five stars, describing the instrumentation on the album "more lushly realized than ever." [6] At Los Angeles Times , writer Randy Lewis explained: "DeVotchKa creates music that explodes with the desperate passion of someone standing at the end of a pier, or lost in the middle of a desert." [9]
In a review for Paste , critic reviewer Steve LaBate wrote: "DeVotchKa's fifth studio LP, 100 Lovers, begins with a gorgeously moody and cinematic wash of synths, strings and piano seeping forth as if water through a crack in a dam. From beneath this swirl of sound, a steady-marching drumbeat subtly emerges, pressure building slowly at first but then more and more rapidly until, finally, the wall holding back the floodwaters bursts in a majestic symphonic crescendo." [10]
All tracks are written by Nick Urata and DeVotchKa.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Alley" | 5:04 |
| 2. | "All the Sand in All the Seas" | 4:50 |
| 3. | "100 Other Lovers" | 4:11 |
| 4. | "The Common Good" | 4:26 |
| 5. | "Interlude 1" | 0:40 |
| 6. | "The Man from San Sebastian" | 3:44 |
| 7. | "Exhaustible" | 3:30 |
| 8. | "Interlude 2" | 0:23 |
| 9. | "Bad Luck Heels" | 4:15 |
| 10. | "Ruthless" | 4:48 |
| 11. | "Contrabanda" | 3:54 |
| 12. | "Sunshine" | 4:55 |
| Chart (2011) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Billboard 200 [15] | 70 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard) [16] | 9 |
| US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [17] | 12 |
| US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [18] | 17 |
| US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [19] | 6 |
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