Fever Dream (Alias album)

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Fever Dream
Alias-feverdream.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 30, 2011 (2011-08-30)
StudioThe Resurgam Compound, South Portland, Maine
Genre Instrumental hip hop
Length42:33
Label Anticon
Producer Alias
Alias chronology
Resurgam
(2008)
Fever Dream
(2011)
Pitch Black Prism
(2014)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 74/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Consequence of Sound A− [3]
Pitchfork 7.2/10 [4]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Resident Advisor 3.5/5 [6]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Fever Dream is a solo studio album by American hip hop musician Alias. It was released on Anticon in 2011.

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Fever Dream received an average score of 74% based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Ali Maloney of The Skinny gave the album 4 stars out of 5, describing it as "a suave cocktail of rolling snares, haunting synth structures, downtempo dub and jittering slices of shoegaze – tastefully evoking the strengths of various modern masters, from FlyLo to Amon Tobin – as swirling, cut-up vocals bounce gleefully around in the distance." [7]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Goinswimmin"2:53
2."Wanna Let It Go"3:51
3."Revi Is Divad"4:00
4."No Choice"1:27
5."Dahorses"4:00
6."Lady Lambin'"4:13
7."Talk in Technicolor"3:22
8."Feverdreamin"3:25
9."Boom Boom Boom"4:50
10."Tagine"3:30
11."Sugarpeeeee"3:16
12."Wrap"3:50

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

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