Close to the Glass

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Close to the Glass
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Studio album by
Released25 February 2014 (2014-02-25) [1]
Genre Electronic, experimental, post-rock
Length47:26
Label City Slang, Sub Pop
The Notwist chronology
The Devil, You + Me
(2008)
Close to the Glass
(2014)
The Messier Objects
(2015)

Close to the Glass is the seventh studio album by German electronic band The Notwist. [2] It was released on 24 February 2014 under City Slang in Europe. [3] It was released on 25 February 2014 under Sub Pop in the United States. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 75/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The A.V. Club B+ [6]
Consequence of Sound C+ [7]
Drowned in Sound 7/10 [8]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [9]
Pitchfork 6.4/10 [10]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [12]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75% based on 23 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [4]

At Alternative Press , Reed Fischer rated the album three-and-a-half out of five stars, stating that "Close To The Glass resembles ice-skate carvings on a frozen lake: jagged, cold but filled with fractured ambient beauty." [1] Heather Phares of AllMusic rated the album four stars, noting "the way they join the organic and the electronic, the cerebral and the emotional on Close to the Glass makes it the most thoroughly rewarding and enjoyable album of the Notwist's career to date." [5]

Close to the Glass received a nomination for IMPALA's European Independent Album of the Year Award. [13]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Signals"3:41
2."Close to the Glass"2:57
3."Kong"4:31
4."Into Another Tune"3:57
5."Casino"3:14
6."From One Wrong Place to the Next"2:44
7."7-Hour-Drive"3:57
8."The Fifth Quarter of the Globe"0:49
9."Run Run Run"5:04
10."Steppin' In"2:00
11."Lineri"8:52
12."They Follow Me"5:41

Charts

ChartPeak
position
German Albums Charts [14] 6
US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [15] 8
US Tastemaker Albums ( Billboard ) [16] 15

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