Dark Red (album)

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Dark Red
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 7, 2015 (2015-04-07)
Genre Electronic
Length58:24
Label True Panther Sounds
Producer Shlohmo
Shlohmo chronology
Bad Vibes
(2011)
Dark Red
(2015)
The End
(2019)

Dark Red is the second studio album by American electronic musician Shlohmo. It was released through True Panther Sounds on April 7, 2015. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 69/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Consequence of Sound B− [1]
Exclaim! 7/10 [4]
HipHopDX Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
NME 7/10 [6]
Pitchfork 5.9/10 [7]
Resident Advisor 2.7/5 [8]
Spin 7/10 [9]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 69, based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]

Paul Simpson of AllMusic gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, saying: "The resulting album successfully fleshes out Shlohmo's previous sound into his most accomplished work so far, and ultimately manages to find hope in darkness." [3] Sheldon Pearce of Consequence of Sound gave the album a grade of B−, calling it "a violently loud, dizzying articulation of grief and loss." [1]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Ten Days of Falling"4:46
2."Meet Ur Maker"5:23
3."Buried"6:55
4."Emerge from Smoke"4:43
5."Slow Descent"6:20
6."Apathy" (featuring D33J)5:25
7."Relentless"5:14
8."Ditch"4:41
9."Remains"3:28
10."Fading"6:08
11."Beams"5:23

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard) [10] 10
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [11] 20

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