Enclosure | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | April 8, 2014 | |||
Recorded | 2012–2013 | |||
Genre | Synth-pop, lo-fi, experimental rock | |||
Length | 37:37 48:41 (Japanese release) | |||
Label | Record Collection | |||
Producer | John Frusciante | |||
John Frusciante chronology | ||||
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Enclosure is the tenth studio album by American musician John Frusciante, released on April 8, 2014 (7 April in UK) on Record Collection. [1] [2]
On February 18, 2014, Frusciante made the first song recorded for the album, "Scratch", a song written during The Empyrean sessions, available through his website as a free download. [3]
On March 19, 2018, Frusciante uploaded a version of "Scratch", "(vocal Fx Mix)", to SoundCloud.
Frusciante said of the album, "Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights' Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX ." [4]
On March 29, 2014, a copy of Enclosure was loaded onto an experimental Cube Satellite dubbed by Record Collection as Sat-JF14 and launched to an altitude of 10,000 ft aboard an Interorbital Systems NEPTUNE Modular Rocket.
Beginning March 31, fans from around the world could download the free, custom-built Sat-JF14 mobile application which was meant to enable users to track the satellite movement in real time (the satellite, however, was only a simulation, as the rocket only reached an altitude of 10,000 ft or 3,048 meters before safely falling to the ground for recovery [5] ). When "Sat-JF14" "hovered" over a users’ geographic region, the Enclosure app would get unlocked, allowing users to listen to the album for free on any iOS or Android mobile device. [6]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 55/100 [7] |
Review scores | |
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Classic Rock | 6/10 [10] |
Consequence of Sound | C− [11] |
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No Ripcord | 6/10 [14] |
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At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 55, based on nine reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews". [7]
All tracks are written by John Frusciante
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Shining Desert" | 4:46 |
2. | "Sleep" | 4:23 |
3. | "Run" | 2:15 |
4. | "Stage" | 3:09 |
5. | "Fanfare" | 4:50 |
6. | "Cinch" | 6:25 |
7. | "Zone" | 4:07 |
8. | "Crowded" | 3:47 |
9. | "Excuses" | 3:53 |
Total length: | 37:37 |
No. | Title | Length |
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10. | "Vesiou" | 4:18 |
11. | "Scratch" | 6:26 |
Total length: | 48:41 |
Chart | Peak position |
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Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [16] | 112 |
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [17] | 16 |