Jet Lag (Josiah Wolf album)

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Jet Lag
File:Jet Lag (Josiah Wolf album).jpg
Studio album by
Josiah Wolf
ReleasedMarch 2, 2010 (2010-03-02) [1]
Genre Indie rock
Length46:36
Label Anticon
Producer Josiah Wolf
Josiah Wolf chronology
The Josiah EP
(2003)		Jet Lag
(2010)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 62/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Beats Per Minute 77/100 [4]
Exclaim! favorable [5]
Impose favorable [6]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Pitchfork 5.6/10 [8]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
URB Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [11]
XLR8R 6/10 [12]

Jet Lag is the first solo studio album by American multi-instrumentalist Josiah Wolf. [13] It was released on Anticon on March 2, 2010. [14] The songs on the album were written after the demise of Wolf's 11-year marriage. [15] All the instruments were played by Wolf himself and recorded in a secluded cottage near Cincinnati, Ohio. [15]

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Jet Lag received an average score of 62% based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]

Brett Uddenberg of URB gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5, saying, "Wolf's elastic compositions straddle the line between a multitude of genres without making it sound forced." [11] He added: "Widely respected as one of the best drummers on the indie scene for years, Josiah Wolf has deftly proven he has the chops to stand on his own." [11]

Anthony Mark Happel of Impose said, "Wolf adds kalimba, organ, bells, drums, etc. to his mostly effective guitar playing, and there is a serious quality to the playing in general, underscored by a sense of self-effacement and humility in the insular poetry of the songs." [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Josiah Wolf.

No.TitleLength
1."The Trailer and the Truck"2:55
2."Master Cleanse (California)"2:38
3."The Opposite of Breathing"4:07
4."The New Car"3:52
5."Skull in the Ice"4:11
6."The Apart Meant"3:54
7."That Kind of Man"3:19
8."Ohioho"5:16
9."Is the Body Hung"3:33
10."In the Seam"4:13
11."Gravity Defied"5:25
12."The One Sign"3:20

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