Empire Builder (album)

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Empire Builder
Empire Builder album.jpg
Studio album by
Laura Gibson
ReleasedApril 1, 2016 (2016-04-01)
Genre Indie pop, indie rock
Length40:10
Label Barsuk Records, City Slang
Producer John Askew, Laura Gibson [1]
Laura Gibson chronology
La Grande
(2012)		Empire Builder
(2016)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic 79/100 [2]
Review scores
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Empire Builder is the fourth studio album by American musician Laura Gibson. It was released in April 2016 under Barsuk Records.

Gibson has stated that the title track was written when travelling from Oregon on the Empire Builder in order to start an MFA program in creative fiction at Hunter College New York. [4]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."The Cause"4:20
2."Damn Sure"4:08
3."Not Harmless"3:13
4."Empire Builder"5:16
5."Five and Thirty"4:44
6."The Search for Dark Lake"3:28
7."Two Kids"3:19
8."Louis"3:02
9."Caldera, Oregon"4:11
10."The Last One"4:29

References

  1. ↑ Day, Laurence (January 22, 2016). "Laura Gibson has announced new record Empire Builder, its lead single "The Cause", and a bunch of new UK/EU shows". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Metacritic review". Metacritic.com. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  3. ↑ Boardman, Tony (April 1, 2016). "MusicOMH Review". Musicomh.com. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ Christensen, David. "Laura Gibson Performs 'Empire Builder' On A Train Through The Columbia Gorge". www.opb.org. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
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