Lacuna (album)

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Lacuna
File:Lacuna (album).jpg
Studio album by
Released11 August 2014 (2014-08-11)
Length45:54
Label Marathon Artists
Producer Dan Carey
Childhood chronology
Lacuna
(2014)
Universal High
(2017)
Singles from Lacuna
  1. "As I Am"
    Released: 8 July 2014 [1]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 68/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Drowned in Sound 7/10 [5]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Pitchfork 6.1/10 [7]

Lacuna is the debut studio album by English band Childhood. It was released on 11 August 2014 under Marathon Artists. [8]

Contents

Critical reception

Lacuna was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 68, based on 11 reviews. [2]

Accolades

Accolades for Lacuna
PublicationAccoladeRankRef.
NME Top 50 Albums of 2014
32
[9]
Rough Trade Top 100 Albums of 2014
56
Under the Radar Top 100 Albums of 2014
99

Track listing

Lacuna track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Blue Velvet"4:28
2."You Could Be Different"3:54
3."As I Am"3:36
4."Right Beneath Me"4:12
5."Falls Away"3:59
6."Sweeter Preacher"2:51
7."Tides"4:33
8."Solemn Skies"5:18
9."Chiliad"4:01
10."Pay for Cool"4:13
11."When You Rise"4:49

Charts

Chart performance for Lacuna
ChartPeak
position
UK Albums (OCC) [12] 87
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [13] 12

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