Death Song (album)

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Death Song
Death Song album cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 21, 2017
RecordedSeptember 2016 [1]
Studio
  • Arlyn Studios, Austin, Texas
  • Avast! Studios, Seattle, Washington
  • Electrokitty
Genre Psychedelic rock
Length48:42
Label Partisan
Producer Phil Ek
The Black Angels chronology
Clear Lake Forest
(2014)
Death Song
(2017)
Wilderness of Mirrors
(2022)

Death Song is the fifth studio album by American psychedelic rock band The Black Angels released on April 21, 2017, 4 years after their last album Indigo Meadow . Recording took place during September 2016 at Arlyn, Avast! and Electrokitty Recording Studios. Phil Ek produced, mixed and engineered the album. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 75/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
American Songwriter Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The A.V. Club B [4]
Paste Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]

The album was released to generally favorable reviews scoring 75 on aggregate website Metacritic , based on 12 reviews. [2] Giving the album 3.5 out of 5 stars, AllMusic critic Mark Deming said of the album "Death Song is an album that's big on cool sounds and not as strong in terms of songs (despite the title), and if you're searching for compelling melodies or hooks, this album may not be your cup of acid. But if you're in the market for an album that will summon the dark atmospheres, Death Song certainly delivers the goods, and it demonstrates that the Black Angels slowly but surely improve each time they go into the studio." [1] Paste Magazine's Beverly Bryan gave the album 8.8 out of 10 in a rave review and said "...a dark, mysterious and sweeping record that returns to the combination of politics and mysticism that made their gritty anti-war themed first album Passover so fascinating. [5]

Track listing

Death Song track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Currency"5:16
2."I'd Kill for Her"3:37
3."Half Believing"4:19
4."Comanche Moon"4:51
5."Hunt Me Down"3:53
6."Grab as Much (As You Can)"3:51
7."Estimate"5:09
8."I Dreamt"4:22
9."Medicine"3:31
10."Death March"3:24
11."Life Song"6:29
Total length:48:42

Personnel

The Black Angels

Technical and design personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Death Song
Chart (2017)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [7] 79
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [8] 40
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [9] 78
French Albums (SNEP) [10] 92
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [11] 73
UK Albums Chart [12] 68
US Billboard 200 [13] 94

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