Dreams Are Not Enough

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Dreams Are Not Enough
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Studio album by
Telefon Tel Aviv
ReleasedSeptember 27, 2019 (2019-09-27)
Genre Electronic
Length50:02
Label Ghostly International
Producer
Telefon Tel Aviv chronology
Immolate Yourself
(2009)		Dreams Are Not Enough
(2019)

Dreams Are Not Enough is the fourth studio album by Telefon Tel Aviv. [1] [2] It was released via Ghostly International on September 27, 2019. [3] [4] It is Joshua Eustis's first album under the Telefon Tel Aviv moniker since the 2009 passing of his bandmate Charles Cooper. [5] Listed top to bottom on the album's front cover, the song titles form a poem. [6]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 84/100 [7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Pitchfork 8.1/10 [9]
Resident Advisor favorable [10]
Spectrum Culturefavorable [11]
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At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 84, based on 5 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [7]

Ryan Keeling of Resident Advisor wrote, "Dreams Are Not Enough is a remarkable return that achieves things the first three Telefon Tel Aviv albums were never quite able to." [10] He added that "the best quality of Dreams Are Not Enough is the fusion of its emotions, as positivity and negativity flow into each other like convergent tributaries of a river." [10] Paul Simpson of AllMusic called the album "An absolutely crushing listen, and every bit as powerful as the previous three TTA albums." [8] Haydon Spenceley of Under the Radar commented that "the record is best enjoyed whole, with headphones, concentration, and responded to with adulation." [12] He said, "Dreams Are Not Enough is 2019's best electronic album, hands down." [12]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Joshua Eustis, except "Arms Aloft" by Eustis and Turk Dietrich

No.TitleLength
1."I dream of it often:"4:58
2."a younger version of myself,"5:15
3."standing at the bottom of the ocean;"5:36
4."arms aloft,"7:43
5."mouth agape,"4:57
6."eyes glaring,"6:57
7."not seeing,"6:16
8."not breathing,"4:50
9."still as stone in the watery fane."3:30
Total length:50:02

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

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  6. ↑ Glazer, Joshua (September 27, 2019). "Ten Years After the Death of Its Co-Founding Member, Telefon Tel Aviv Returns With a Haunting New Album". Billboard . Retrieved December 14, 2022.
  7. 1 2 "Dreams Are Not Enough by Telefon Tel Aviv". Metacritic . Retrieved December 14, 2022.
  8. 1 2 Simpson, Paul. "Telefon Tel Aviv - Dreams Are Not Enough". AllMusic . Retrieved December 14, 2022.
  9. ↑ Sherburne, Philip (October 1, 2019). "Telefon Tel Aviv: Dreams Are Not Enough". Pitchfork . Retrieved December 14, 2022.
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  11. ↑ Stevens, Nathan (October 16, 2019). "Telefon Tel Aviv: Dreams Are Not Enough". Spectrum Culture. Retrieved December 14, 2022.
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