| Lamp Lit Prose | ||||
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| Released | July 13, 2018 | |||
| Studio | Ivo Shandor (Los Angeles, CA) | |||
| Genre | Progressive pop [1] | |||
| Length | 37:19 | |||
| Label | Domino | |||
| Producer | David Longstreth | |||
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| Singles from Lamp Lit Prose | ||||
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Lamp Lit Prose is the eighth studio album by American experimental rock group Dirty Projectors, and was released on Domino Records on July 13, 2018. [2]
The album was produced by David Longstreth at his Los Angeles studio. [3]
The band supported the album with a tour, which began in May 2018 with significant personnel changes. [4]
They released the first single off the album, "Break-Thru", on May 2 along with a music video. [5] [6] In Spin , Andy Cush described the single as sounding "more immediately Dirty Projectors-ish than anything on the self-titled album" released in 2017. [3]
On June 14, they released a second single, "That's a Lifestyle", with an animated music video by Kitty Faingold. [7] In Stereogum , Chris DeVille also contrasted this single with the tenor of Dirty Projectors , saying "That's A Lifestyle" echoed earlier albums "Bitte Orca and Swing Lo Magellan, the pop-minded prog exercises that transformed Dirty Projectors from underground oddities to full-fledged indie rock stars. It's a magnificently pretty guitar tapestry that never lets its complexity smother the pop appeal." [8]
On July 12, the day before the album's release, the band released their third single, "I Feel Energy". [9]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.3/10 [10] |
| Metacritic | 77/100 [11] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [12] |
| The A.V. Club | B+ [13] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B [14] |
| The Guardian | [15] |
| The Independent | [16] |
| Mojo | [17] |
| NME | [18] |
| Pitchfork | 7.4/10 [19] |
| Rolling Stone |  [1] |
| Uncut | 8/10 [20] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 77, based on 27 reviews. [11] At Rolling Stone , Will Hermes called the album "a flood of ideas and magnificent vocal arrangements" which he found "by turns dazzling and exhausting." [1] Jazz Monroe of Pitchfork praised the album's "more hopeful, chipper kind of songwriting." [19]
All tracks are written by David Longstreth, except "(I Wanna) Feel It All" by Longstreth, Nat Baldwin and Mike Johnson.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Right Now" (featuring Syd) | 3:39 |
| 2. | "Break-Thru" | 3:47 |
| 3. | "That's a Lifestyle" (featuring Haim) | 4:22 |
| 4. | "I Feel Energy" (featuring Amber Mark) | 4:37 |
| 5. | "Zombie Conqueror" (featuring Empress Of) | 3:45 |
| 6. | "Blue Bird" | 3:49 |
| 7. | "Found It in U" | 3:27 |
| 8. | "What Is the Time" | 3:14 |
| 9. | "You're the One" (featuring Robin Pecknold and Rostam) | 2:18 |
| 10. | "(I Wanna) Feel It All" (featuring Dear Nora) | 4:21 |
| Total length: | 37:19 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 11. | "What Is the Time" (Early Orchestration) | 1:23 |
| 12. | "You're the One" (Early Orchestration) | 2:19 |
| 13. | "That's a Lifestyle" (Early Instrumental) | 4:14 |
| Total length: | 45:15 | |
| Chart (2018) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [22] | 122 |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon) [23] | 153 |
| UK Independent Albums (OCC) [24] | 17 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard) [25] | 17 |
