Lake Fire (album)

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Lake Fire
Loscil - Lake Fire.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 2, 2025 (2025-05-02)
Length55:36
Label Kranky
Loscil chronology
Umbel
(2024)
Lake Fire
(2025)

Lake Fire is a studio album by Canadian musician Loscil. It was released on May 2, 2025, by Kranky Records. Preceded by Loscil's 2024 record, Umbel, it features nine songs with a total runtime of approximately fifty-five minutes. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 81/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Pitchfork 6.9/10 [3]
Uncut 8/10 [4]

According to the review aggregator Metacritic , Lake Fire received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 81 out of 100 from 5 critic scores. [2]

Heather Phares of AllMusic noted in her review of the album, "Finely nuanced shades of gray are all he needs on Lake Fire, a formidable, beautiful return to Loscil's fundamentals." [1] Pitchfork rated the album 6.9 out of ten and stated, "On another level, the album continues the thread of apprehension that's long been present in Loscil's music, which is often about human encroachment on the natural world." [3] Wyndham Wallace of Uncut gave the album a rating of eight out of ten, stating "Like the monolithic squall of noise dominating its often stern title track, Lake Fire emerges from something else entirely: a suite for electronic and live musicians that never came to pass." [4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Scott Morgan.

Lake Fire track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Arrhythmia"5:17
2."Bell Flame"6:06
3."Candling"5:23
4."Silos"6:46
5."Spark"6:23
6."Ash Clouds"6:43
7."Flutter"5:51
8."Doux"5:47
9."Lake Fire"7:20
Total length:55:36

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Phares, Heather. "Lake Fire – Loscil". AllMusic . Retrieved May 14, 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Lake Fire by Loscil". Metacritic . Retrieved July 21, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Bromfield, Daniel (May 7, 2025). "Loscil: Lake Fire". Pitchfork . Retrieved May 14, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Wallace, Wyndham (June 2025). "Lake Fire – Loscil". Uncut . p. 35. Retrieved May 14, 2025 via Archive.org.
  5. Loscil (2025). Lake Fire (CD booklet). Kranky.