Lady Wood

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["Fairy Dust"] is when I hear the fans shouting my name and I'm about to hit the stage. "Fire Fade" is when it all sort of starts to wear off and I'm losing connection with the fans a bit, and I'm trying to get back to that first chase. You feel vulnerable there. It's where you start to reveal your true self.

— Lo describing the chapters of Lady Wood. [5]

The trailer for Fairy Dust , a short film based on the first half of the album, was unveiled on 17 October 2016. [16] The full short film for Fairy Dust was released on 31 October 2016. [17] A short film for the second half of the album, titled Fire Fade , was released on 25 August 2017. [18]

Critical reception

Lady Wood
Tove Lo - Lady Wood.png
Studio album by
Tove Lo
Released28 October 2016 (2016-10-28)
RecordedJuly 2015 – April 2016
Studio
Genre
Length39:35
Label Island
Producer
Tove Lo chronology
Queen of the Clouds
(2014)		Lady Wood
(2016)		 Blue Lips
(2017)
Alternative cover
LadyWoodDeluxeVinylCover.png
2018 deluxe vinyl reissue with Blue Lips
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 74/100 [19]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [20]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [21]
Entertainment Weekly A− [22]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [23]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [24]
Pitchfork 7.0/10 [2]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [25]

Lady Wood received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 74, based on 16 reviews. [19] Entertainment Weekly 's Madison Vain praised the album as "the darkest, weirdest, most irresistible pop record of the fall" and wrote, "While Lo's lyrics are stark and intensely personal, the music sounds engineered for the masses." [22] Writing for NME , Nick Levine commented that "[s]ome listeners may not warm to Lo's persona, but her songwriting skills are difficult to fault", adding that "she keeps the hooks coming throughout as her hip, minimal electro-pop quivers, shimmers, pulses and throbs." [23] Alim Kheraj of DIY noted that "Lady Wood isn't an album made for radio or easy digestion. The hooks are there but, like Tove herself, they aren't succumbing expectations." [21]

Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone opined that the album "doesn't have anything that hits quite as hard as 'Stay High (Habits) '[ sic ] and 'Talking Body' [...] But its minimalist tech-house sound has a darkly textured allure". [3] Heather Phares of AllMusic remarked that "despite its provocative title, [Lady Wood] often feels more straightforward than Queen of the Clouds did." [20] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine concluded that "Lady Wood is admirably lean and tightly focused, and though it doesn't boast confessionals on the order of Like a Prayer 's, it offers a peek inside the psyche of a smart, burgeoning young star." [25] Katherine St. Asaph of Pitchfork stated that "Lady Wood is short, but Lo finds ample darkness to plumb." [2] The Observer 's Kitty Empire expressed that "Lady Wood is, if anything, classier than Queen of the Clouds. But it might not sell so well, in that it lacks the sleazy catnip—the sex clubs, the self-abasement—displayed in the latter's defining singles." [24]

Track listing

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes [26] and Tidal [27]

Lady Wood– standard edition [28]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Fairy Dust"
The Struts0:57
2."Influence" (featuring Wiz Khalifa)
The Struts3:44
3."Lady Wood"
  • Lo
  • Söderberg
  • Oscar Holter
  • Holter
  • Söderberg
3:19
4."True Disaster"
  • Lo
  • Holter
Holter3:24
5."Cool Girl"
  • Lo
  • Söderberg
  • Jerlström
The Struts3:19
6."Vibes" (featuring Joe Janiak)
The Struts3:46
7."Fire Fade"
 Ilya 0:52
8."Don't Talk About It"
Ilya3:54
9."Imaginary Friend"
  • The Struts
  • Little
4:12
10."Keep It Simple"
Payami3:51
11."Flashes"
Görres4:16
12."WTF Love Is"
  • Lo
  • Söderberg
  • Jerlström
The Struts3:41
Total length:39:35
Lady Wood– Target exclusive edition bonus tracks [29]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
13."Cool Girl" (The Knocks remix)
  • Lo
  • Söderberg
  • Jerlström
5:00
14."True Disaster" (Hyperbits remix)
  • Lo
  • Holter
  • Holter
  • Hyperbits [a]
3:34
15."Influence" (Chords remix) (featuring Wiz Khalifa)
  • Lo
  • Söderberg
  • Jerlström
  • Khalifa
  • The Struts
  • Chords [a]
3:43
Total length:51:12
Lady Wood and Blue Lips – Deluxe vinyl exclusive 10-inch picture disc [30]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Cool Girl" (Timbaland remix)
  • Lo
  • Söderberg
  • Jerlström
 
2."WTF Love Is" (Karma Fields remix)
  • Lo
  • Söderberg
  • Jerlström
 
3."Cycles" (MK remix)
  • Lo
  • Söderberg
  • Jerlström
  • Janiak
  • The Struts
  • MK [a]
 
4."Bitches" (featuring Charli XCX, Icona Pop, Elliphant, and Alma)
Payami 

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Lady Wood. [26]

Musicians

Technical

Artwork

Charts

Release history

Release dates and formats for Lady Wood
RegionDateVersion(s)Format(s)LabelRef.
Various28 October 2016Standard Island [28]
United States Target exclusiveCD [29]
11 November 2016Standard LP [50]
Various17 December 2018LP (with Blue Lips ) [30]

Notes

  1. ↑ Tracks 2–6 and 8–12
  2. ↑ Tracks 8 and 10
  3. ↑ Track 9

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