Death Peak

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Death Peak
Clark - Death Peak album cover.png
Studio album by
Clark
Released7 April 2017 (2017-04-07)
Genre
Length43:32
Label Warp
Producer Chris Clark
Clark chronology
The Last Panthers
(2016)		Death Peak
(2017)		Kiri Variations
(2019)
Singles from Death Peak
  1. "Peak Magnetic"
    Released: 17 February 2017

Death Peak is the eighth studio album by British electronic musician Chris Clark and the sixth one under the moniker Clark. Announced on 17 February 2017, it was released on 7 April 2017 by Warp Records. [1] Upon its announcement its first single, "Peak Magnetic", was released freely for streaming on SoundCloud. [2] The design of the album cover is that of a crumpled photograph of Clark himself, produced by photographer Alma Haser. [3]

Contents

It peaked at number 11 on the UK Dance Albums Chart [4] and number 20 on the UK Independent Albums Chart. [5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 78/100 [6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The A.V. Club B+ [8]
Clash 7/10 [9]
Exclaim! 8/10 [10]
Loud and Quiet 9/10 [11]
Paste 7.3/10 [12]
Pitchfork 7.4/10 [13]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [14]
The Quietus (favourable) [15]
Resident Advisor 4.0/5 [16]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 78, based on 13 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [6] Mike Schiller of PopMatters gave the album 7 stars out of 10, saying: "Death Peak is a very good album, and anyone who's followed Clark since Clarence Park should be happy with the twists and turns he continues to take." [14] Paul Clarke of Resident Advisor gave the album a 4.0 out of 5, describing the music on the album as IDM, techno and ambient, saying: "A large part of Death Peak—despite the morbid title—contains some of Clark's most accessible and melodic dance floor tracks." [16] Loud and Quiet 's Luke Cartledge, in his positive review, praised the album for possessing "bizarre, profound (and not always entirely pleasant) impact." [11] Clash rated the album 7 out of 10 portraying the album as "nine-track barrage of industrial experimentalism." [9] The publication named it the 33rd best album of 2017. [17]

Track listing

Track listing taken from Bleep.com. [18]

All tracks are written by Chris Clark

No.TitleLength
1."Spring But Dark"1:18
2."Butterfly Prowler"4:27
3."Peak Magnetic"5:43
4."Hoova"5:07
5."Slap Drones"4:18
6."Aftermath"2:01
7."Catastrophe Anthem"6:35
8."Living Fantasy"4:07
9."Un U.K."9:56
Total length:43:32
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
10."Licht" (Pink Strobe version)7:19

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Death Peak. [19]

Charts

ChartPeak
position
UK Dance Albums (OCC) [4] 11
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [5] 20

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