Dreaming of Revenge

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Dreaming of Revenge
Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge (2008) album cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 11, 2008
Label Velour
Producer Malcolm Burn
Kaki King chronology
...Until We Felt Red
(2006)
Dreaming of Revenge
(2008)
Mexican Teenagers EP
(2009)

Dreaming of Revenge is the fourth album by the American guitarist Kaki King, released in 2008.

Contents

The album was leaked on February 22, 2008, less than a month before its official release.

On March 4, 2008, iTunes released a full version of Dreaming of Revenge featuring the bonus track "I Need a Girl Who Knows a Map".

On March 11, Amoeba Records released a version of Dreaming of Revenge that included a Vinyl 33' copy of "Pull Me Out Alive" with the unreleased B-Side "Zeitgeist".

In early April, The Japanese Edition of Dreaming of Revenge was released with Both "Zeitgeist" and "I Need a Girl Who Knows a Map" on the same disc, along with full lyrics to all songs sung on the album.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The A.V. Club (A-) [2]
Billboard (Favorable) link [ dead link ]
Crawdaddy! (Favorable) link [ dead link ]
Detour (Favorable) [3]
Entertainment Weekly (A-) [4]
The New York Times (Favorable) [5]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Thom Jurek wrote "This is not a remarkable album by any stretch, although its packaging is — it contains a punch-out mobile as a booklet — but it is a further step in the development of a singular and ever elusive artist who possesses a truckload of talent, but is still unsure of which direction to head to realize it all." [1] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly called it King's most "sophisticated release yet." [4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Kaki King.

No.TitleLength
1."Bone Chaos in the Castle"2:28
2."Life Being What It Is"4:00
3."Sad American"3:07
4."Pull Me Out Alive"3:45
5."Montreal"4:27
6."Open Mouth"4:41
7."So Much for So Little"3:32
8."Saving Days in a Frozen Head"3:08
9."Air and Kilometers"4:24
10."Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be a Bad Person?"5:10
11."2 O'Clock"5:50

Personnel

Production

References

  1. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. "Review Dreaming of Revenge - Kaki King". Allmusic . Retrieved March 11, 2012.
  2. Hawthorne, Marc (March 10, 2008). "Kaki King: Dreaming Of Revenge". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on March 26, 2010. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
  3. "Music & Lyrics: Kaki King, Dreaming of Revenge : DETOUR :: Detroit's Indie City Guide". Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
  4. 1 2 Greenblatt, Leah (March 7, 2008). "Dreaming of Revenge Review". Entertainment Weekly . Archived from the original on December 14, 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
  5. Ratliff, Ben (March 10, 2008). "Music Ripe to Remix". The New York Times . Retrieved March 11, 2012.