Dark Matter (Randy Newman album)

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Dark Matter
RandyNewman-DarkMatter.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 4, 2017
Studio Sunset Sound (Los Angeles, CA)
Sony Scoring Stage (Culver City, CA)
University High (Los Angeles, CA)
Length39:34
Label Nonesuch
Producer David Boucher, Mitchell Froom, Lenny Waronker
Randy Newman chronology
The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3
(2016)
Dark Matter
(2017)
The Meyerowitz Stories
(2017)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 84/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Exclaim! 6/10 [3]
Paste 8.7/10 [4]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [5]
Vice (Expert Witness)A [6]

Dark Matter is the fifteenth studio album of original material and first of such in nine years by Randy Newman, released on August 4, 2017, by Nonesuch Records. NPR.org released an advance stream of the album on July 27, 2017. [7] Veteran music critic Robert Christgau ranked it as the sixth-best album of the 2010s. [8]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."The Great Debate"8:08
2."Brothers"4:54
3."Putin"3:44
4."Lost Without You"3:54
5."Sonny Boy"4:42
6."It's a Jungle Out There"3:20
7."She Chose Me"3:12
8."On the Beach"4:30
9."Wandering Boy"3:00

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeRankRef.
Flood MagazineTop 25 Albums of 2017
23
[9]
Mojo Magazine Top 50 Albums of 2017
33
Rolling Stone Top 50 Albums of 2017
13
Spin Magazine Top 50 Albums of 2017
43

Personnel

Charts

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