Another Life (Amnesia Scanner album)

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Another Life
Amnesia Scanner Another Life Cover.png
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)
Genre
Length39:29
Label PAN
Producer Amnesia Scanner
Amnesia Scanner chronology
AS Truth
(2017)
Another Life
(2018)
Tearless
(2020)
Singles from Another Life
  1. "AS Chaos"
    Released: April 13, 2018
  2. "AS AWOL"
    Released: July 20, 2018
  3. "AS Too Wrong"
    Released: August 25, 2018

Another Life is the debut studio album by Finnish electronic music duo Amnesia Scanner. It was released on September 7, 2018, by PAN. [2]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 80/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Exclaim! 9/10 [5]
Pitchfork 7.5/10 [6]
PopMatters 8/10 [7]
Resident Advisor 4.0/5 [8]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [9]

Another Life 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 80 based on nine reviews. [3] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 83 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of seven reviews. [10]

Maya-Roisin Slater of Resident Advisor reviewed "Another Life is a complete sensory overload you can't turn away from." [8] Paul Simpson of AllMusic said: "Another Life is filled with the battering beats and showering feedback common to the duo's previous recordings, but they're molded into strange, sometimes grotesque pop songs. Jarring, mutilated electronic vocals are at the center of most of the album's songs, and the lyrics seem to celebrate technology while also expressing the horror of having no escape from it." [4]

Track listing

All tracks written by Amnesia Scanner.

No.TitleLength
1."AS Symmetribal"4:28
2."AS Unlinear" (featuring Pan Daijing)2:12
3."AS A.W.O.L."3:29
4."AS Another Life"3:24
5."AS Daemon"3:09
6."AS Too Wrong"4:14
7."AS Spectacult" (featuring Oracle)2:59
8."AS Faceless"2:31
9."AS Chain"2:17
10."AS Securitaz"4:16
11."AS Chaos" (featuring Pan Daijing)3:49
12."AS Rewild"2:41

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