| Late Night Tales: Music for Pleasure | ||||
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| Compilation album by Tom Findlay | ||||
| Released | June 11, 2012 | |||
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| Length | 67:20 [1] | |||
| Label | Night Time Stories | |||
| Producer | Tom Findlay | |||
| Late Night Tales chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Pitchfork | 6.4/10 [2] |
| Rolling Stone |    [3] |
Late Night Tales: Music for Pleasure is a DJ mix album by Groove Armada's Tom Findlay [4] for Late Night Tales series, released by Night Time Stories on 11 June 2012.
The album features tracks by yacht rock artists such as Toto, Hall & Oates, and Kenny Loggins, among many others. [5]
Pitchfork's Mark Richardson wrote that "despite the familiarity and easily parodied context of the source material, [the album] works; it does what it was designed to do, probably due to the fact that recording and record-making were at their technological zenith in the late 70s and early 80s." [2]
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