| Black Friday | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 26 January 2024 | |||
| Length | 28:34 | |||
| Label | UROK | |||
| Producer |
| |||
| Tom Odell chronology | ||||
| ||||
| Singles from Black Friday | ||||
| ||||
Black Friday is the sixth studio album by British singer-songwriter Tom Odell. It was released on 26 January 2024 through UROK Management. The title track Black Friday was nominated for the Best Song Musically and Lyrically Ivor Novello Award on Thursday 23 May 2024. [1]
Recording took place at Odell's studio in London, mainly consisting of him "just sitting on the sofa" with his guitar and recording vocals in order to "capture" what they were trying to capture since other methods did not work. According to Odell, this procedure was directly inspired by the way Kurt Cobain would record music. [2] The eponymous track, released as the lead single on 22 September 2023, was written on his 32nd birthday in 2022 and deals with "admiration and love for the people" in his life as well as the "proclivity to be unkind" to himself. [3] "Black Friday" was followed-up by the singles "Somebody Else", [4] "Answer Phone" [5] and "The End". [6]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Clash | 7/10 [7] |
| Laut.de |   [8] |
| The Times | [9] |
Writing for Laut.de , Josephine Maria Bayer thought Black Friday was neither "monotonous" nor "predictable" with Odell surpassing himself as a songwriter and arranger. [8] Emma Harrison at Clash noted that Odell takes him and the listener "on an emotional and intimate journey" with moments that are "enthralling" and some that are "a bit too melancholy and a smidge lacklustre". [7] Being more critical of the record, Will Hodgkinson of The Times admitted that, despite "structure" and "interludes of orchestras tuning up", the album did not move them, calling it "all so humourless". [9]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Answer Phone" | Tom Odell | 2:40 |
| 2. | "Black Friday" |
| 3:40 |
| 3. | "Loving You Will Be the Death of Me" |
| 2:11 |
| 4. | "The Orchestra Tunes Up" | Odell | 0:49 |
| 5. | "Spinning" |
| 2:11 |
| 6. | "The End of the Summer" |
| 2:07 |
| 7. | "The Orchestra Takes Flight" |
| 0:45 |
| 8. | "Somebody Else" |
| 3:23 |
| 9. | "Parties" |
| 2:15 |
| 10. | "The Orchestra Is Feeling Tense" | Odell | 0:33 |
| 11. | "Nothing Hurts Like Love" |
| 3:51 |
| 12. | "Getaway" (Voice note) |
| 0:45 |
| 13. | "The End" |
| 3:24 |
| Total length: | 28:34 | ||
| Chart (2024) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [10] | 43 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [11] | 8 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [12] | 46 |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [13] | 9 |
| French Physical Albums (SNEP) [14] | 110 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [15] | 32 |
| Irish Albums (IRMA) [16] | 64 |
| Polish Albums (ZPAV) [17] | 62 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC) [18] | 4 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [19] | 20 |
| UK Albums (OCC) [20] | 5 |
"The Real Slim Shady" is a song by American rapper Eminem from his third album The Marshall Mathers LP (2000). It was released as the lead single a month before the album's release.
Meteora is the second studio album by American rock band Linkin Park. It was released on March 25, 2003, through Warner Bros. Records, following Reanimation, a collaboration album which featured remixes of songs included on their 2000 debut studio album Hybrid Theory. The album was produced by the band alongside Don Gilmore. The title Meteora is taken from the Greek Orthodox monasteries originally bearing the name. Meteora has a similar sound to Hybrid Theory, as described by critics, and the album took almost a year to be recorded. It is the first Linkin Park studio album to feature bassist Dave "Phoenix" Farrell after he rejoined the band in 2000 following his temporary touring with other bands.
Thomas Peter Odell is an English singer-songwriter. He released his debut extended play, Songs from Another Love, in 2012. He won the BRITs Critics' Choice Award in early 2013. Odell's debut studio album, Long Way Down, was issued on 24 June 2013. Three years later, his follow-up studio album, Wrong Crowd, was released, on 10 June 2016. This was followed by several other albums.
"Another Love" is a song by English singer-songwriter Tom Odell, released in October 2012 as his debut single and lifted from his debut extended play, Songs from Another Love (2012). It serves as the first single on his debut studio album Long Way Down (2013).
Long Way Down is the debut studio album by British singer-songwriter Tom Odell. It was released on 24 June 2013 and serves as the follow-up to his 2012 extended play, Songs from Another Love. It serves as his first release with a major record label, and was released with Columbia.
Raymond Adrien Dalton is an American singer based in Seattle, Washington. He began his career as a gospel and R&B singer. Dalton gained prominence as the featured artist on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' 2011 song "Can't Hold Us", which gained popularity between 2012 and 2013, eventually topping the charts in multiple countries including the Billboard Hot 100. The song was certified platinum in the U.S. in April 2013. He has won two MTV Video Music Awards.
Strut is the tenth studio album by American rock musician Lenny Kravitz. It was released on September 23, 2014 and was the first release on Kravitz's own Roxie Records, with distribution by Kobalt Label Services. The record also produced five singles released both in 2014 and 2015.
Anarchytecture is the sixth studio album by English band Skunk Anansie. It was produced by Tom Dalgety and released in January 2016 through earMUSIC and Carosello Records.
Wrong Crowd is the second studio album by British singer-songwriter Tom Odell. It was released on 10 June 2016. Odell's first major release since his 2013 debut, Long Way Down, achieved international success, it was also his first album released via RCA Records.
The Ultimate Collection is a compilation album by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, first released on 28 October 2016. Remastered by engineer Andy Pearce and curated by the members of the band, the album was released during the band's final concert tour, The End Tour.
What a Time to Be Alive is the debut studio album by British singer-songwriter Tom Walker, released on 1 March 2019 through Relentless Records. It was preceded by the single "Leave a Light On", which reached the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, as well as "My Way" and "Angels". It also includes "Walk Alone", released as a single from Rudimental's 2019 album Toast to Our Differences, and the original acoustic version of "Just You and I", which was re-released in a different version for single release in early 2019, also reaching the top 10 in the UK.
Jubilee Road is the third studio album by British singer-songwriter Tom Odell. It was released on 26 October 2018. The lead single "If You Wanna Love Somebody" was released on 14 June 2018.
Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent is the debut studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi. It was released on 17 May 2019 through Vertigo Records in Europe and Capitol Records in the United States, and distributed globally by Universal Music. It includes the top 10 single "Grace", the UK and US number one single "Someone You Loved" and "Hold Me While You Wait", among several songs previously included on Capaldi's 2018 EPs Bloom and Breach. Tracks Mercy, Tough and Something Borrowed (Demo) did not make the final cut of the album. Capaldi went on tour in support of the record in May 2019, and finished the tour in October 2019. It peaked at number one in the UK and Ireland, becoming the fastest-selling album of the year and also outselling all of the top 10 combined in both countries. It was certified gold in the UK a week after its release. The album was the best selling album in the UK in 2019 and 2020, with "Someone You Loved" being the best selling single of 2019 in the UK.
Moral Panic is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Nothing but Thieves. The album was released on 23 October 2020 through Sony Music UK. The album was produced by Mike Crossey, with band member Dominic Craik also producing five songs.
The White Stripes Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the White Stripes, released through Third Man Records in America on December 4, 2020. The album comprises 26 songs from all six of the band's studio albums, including two songs originally released on standalone singles. On December 22, 2020, the band released an accompanying yule log video; a 90-minute animation directed by Noah Sterling featuring the artwork of Blue J.
Monsters is the fourth studio album by British singer-songwriter Tom Odell. It was released on 9 July 2021. Its lead single, "Numb", was released on 19 February 2021. The album debuted at number four on the UK Albums Chart, becoming Odell's fourth Top 10s.
Zeit is the eighth studio album by German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein, released on 29 April 2022 through Universal Music. Produced by the band with Olsen Involtini, the album was unplanned and recorded as a result of the band's tour being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the band, the enforced lockdowns due to the pandemic spurred the band's creativity, resulting in spontaneous writing and recording sessions. Rammstein recorded the album in late 2020 and early 2021 at La Fabrique Studios in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, where they recorded their previous album. The album's title track was released as the lead single on 10 March 2022.
True North is the eleventh studio album by Norwegian band A-ha. It was released on 21 October 2022 by RCA and Sony Music. The album's opening track "I'm In" was released as the first single on 8 July 2022.
Love & Money is the ninth studio album by Georgian-British singer-songwriter Katie Melua. It was released on 24 March 2023 through BMG Rights Management.
Resound NYC is the 21st studio album by American musician Moby, released on May 12, 2023, by Deutsche Grammophon. It features orchestral arrangements of songs that were recorded in New York City between 1994 and 2010, where Moby was born and lived.