All of This Is Chance

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All of This Is Chance
Lisa O'Neill - All of This Is Chance.png
Studio album by
Released10 February 2023 (2023-02-10)
Genre Folk [1]
Length42.17
Label Rough Trade
Lisa O'Neill chronology
Heard a Long Gone Song
(2018)
All of This Is Chance
(2023)
Singles from All of This Is Chance
  1. "Old Note"
    Released: 15 November 2022 [2]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 84/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
PopMatters 7/10 [5]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [6]

All of This Is Chance is the fifth studio album by Irish singer-songwriter Lisa O'Neill. It was released on 10 February 2023 by Rough Trade Records. [7]

Contents

Critical reception

All of This Is Chance was met with "universal acclaim" 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 84, based on 5 reviews. [3]

Writing for AllMusic, James Christopher Monger wrote that O'Neill's "lilting, rough-hewn cadence carries with it the weight, strength, and spry humor of her homeland, and her storytelling rings true and grounded, even at its most mystic and confounding." [1] Alex Brent of PopMatters wrote "All of This Is Chance sees O'Neill become more of a protagonist of her songs than an observer. While her previous work, Heard a Long Gone Song, was rightly praised for its evocative renditions of people, tradition, work, and life, this is more concerned with how its author relates to the world. As the title suggests, these questions are not to be addressed without a degree of world-weary cynicism." [5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lisa O'Neil

All of This Is Chance track listing
No.TitleLength
1."All of This Is Chance"6:27
2."Silver Seed"4:18
3."Old Note"6:07
4."Birdy from Another Realm"5:12
5."The Globe"5:28
6."If I Was a Painter"4:07
7."Whisht, the Wild Workings of the Mind"6:53
8."Goodnight World"3:45

Charts

Chart performance for All of This Is Chance
Chart (2013)Peak
position
Irish Albums (IRMA) [8] 6
Scottish Albums (OCC) [9] 22
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [10] 9

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