Coastal Grooves

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Coastal Grooves
Blood Orange Coastal Grooves album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released8 August 2011 (2011-08-08)
Genre
Label Domino
Producer Ariel Rechtshaid
Blood Orange chronology
Coastal Grooves
(2011)
Cupid Deluxe
(2013)

Coastal Grooves is the debut studio album by Blood Orange. [1] It was released August 30, 2011 under Domino Recording Company. The album featured no guest appearances and was produced by Ariel Rechtshaid in Los Angeles. [2] Domino Record Company describes the album as highlighting the glamour and drama of New York City in the 1980s. [2]

Contents

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Loud and Quiet (7/10) [5]
Pitchfork Media (5.9/10) [6]

Music

The album incorporates stylistic elements of indie rock, baroque pop, folk, contemporary R&B, jazz, soul, and electronic music. By fusing many of these elements together, Blood Orange captures sounds of grooviness, reverbed guitar lines, and piano synths to create music that is described as being a part of a post-punk atmosphere. [7] [1] In a November 2013 article Complex magazine listed the album's cover as one of the "50 Best Pop Album Covers of the Past Five Years", also stating that Hynes was "inspired by transgender icons, like Octavia St. Laurent while he was wrapping production on the LP." In the music video for "I'm Sorry We Lied," produced by Domino Recording Company and directed by Abteen Bagheri in 2012, the story follows Blood Orange and a woman's night life adventure in New York City. Aside from "I'm Sorry We Lied," Many works on the album are also said to be inspired by the after-hours environment of NYC. [7] In 2010, Blood Orange underwent throat surgery and as a result, the album is sung mainly in falsetto. [8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Devonté Hynes

Standard edition CD, Digital Download
No.TitleLength
1."Forget It"3:56
2."Sutphin Boulevard"3:33
3."I'm Sorry We Lied"4:00
4."Can We Go Inside Now?"3:51
5."S'cooled"3:10
6."Complete Failure"3:35
7."Instantly Blank (The Goodness)"2:53
8."The Complete Knock"5:03
9."Are You Sure You're Really Busy?"4:21
10."Champagne Coast"4:52
11."Said No" (iTunes bonus track)4:54

Personnel

Reception

The album has a rating of 72/100 on Metacritic based on 18 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews. [9] [10] A reviewer for Pitchfork wrote that Coastal Grooves omits catchy choruses and melodies in favor of stark guitar lines and seductive mumbling but ultimately gave the album a rating of a 5.9/10. [1]

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