A Mineral Love

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A Mineral Love
A Mineral Love cover.jpeg
Studio album by
Released1 April 2016 (2016-04-01)
Genre
Length45:38
Label Warp Records
Producer Bibio
Bibio chronology
The Green EP
(2014)
A Mineral Love
(2016)
The Serious EP
(2016)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 77/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Clash 6/10 [3]
Consequence of Sound B− [4]
Exclaim! 5/10 [5]
Pitchfork Media 6.8/10 [6]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]

A Mineral Love is the seventh studio album by electronic musician Bibio, his fourth studio release on Warp Records. [8] It was released on 1 April 2016.

Contents

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, A Mineral Love received an average score of 77% based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Petals"2:32
2."A Mineral Love"3:17
3."Raxeira"2:52
4."Town & Country"4:03
5."Feeling"3:27
6."The Way You Talk" (featuring Gotye)2:50
7."With the Thought of Us"3:46
8."Why So Serious?" (featuring Olivier St. Louis)4:46
9."C'est La Vie"3:31
10."Wren Tails"1:34
11."Gasoline & Mirrors" (featuring Wax Stag)5:43
12."Saint Thomas"3:39
13."Light Up the Sky"3:38
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
14."Pretty Girls"4:45

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums ( Billboard ) [9] 9

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