Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune | ||||
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Released | September 7, 2018 | |||
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Length | 35:56 | |||
Label | Joyful Noise Recordings | |||
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Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune is a studio album by Swamp Dogg. It was released via Joyful Noise Recordings on September 7, 2018. [1] It peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart, [2] as well as number 28 on the Independent Albums chart. [3]
The album was inspired by Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak . [4] After Swamp Dogg and MoogStar recorded a rough version of the album, Ryan Olson and Justin Vernon spent several years "refining, fine-tuning, and deconstructing" these recordings. [5] The album includes the cover versions of "Answer Me, My Love" [6] and "Star Dust". [7] In a 2018 interview with Los Angeles Times , Swamp Dogg said, "It's the best thing I've done since the '70s." [8]
Music videos were created for "I'll Pretend", [9] "Lonely", [10] "Sex with Your Ex", [11] and "Star Dust". [12]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 74/100 [13] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Pitchfork | 7.3/10 [15] |
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At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 74, based on 8 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [13]
Mark Deming of AllMusic wrote, "with Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune, Swamp Dogg takes a very deep dive into the electronic side of contemporary pop, hip-hop, and R&B, and he predictably pushes it to the wall." [14] Elias Leight of Rolling Stone wrote, "On Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune's best songs, [Ryan] Olson's synth-heavy backdrops evoke the late Eighties, landing somewhere between early Chicago house music and twitchy hip-hop." [17] Jon Pareles of The New York Times commented that "Swamp Dogg sets off into a bizarre, unsettled realm of computer-manipulated vocals and surreal, anything-can-happen electronic backdrops." [18] Stephen M. Deusner of Pitchfork wrote, "The experiment succeeds because Swamp Dogg delivers on all three aspects of his album title: the ecstasies of love, the misery of loss, and the way Auto-Tune can be used to magnify those feelings." [15]
Mojo placed it at number 56 on the "Top 75 Albums of 2018" list. [19]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Answer Me, My Love" |
| 2:53 | |
2. | "Lonely" |
| MoogStar | 2:38 |
3. | "I'll Pretend" (featuring Guitar Shorty and Justin Vernon) |
| MoogStar | 4:24 |
4. | "I'm Coming with Lovin' on My Mind" | Jerry Williams Jr. |
| 4:05 |
5. | "$$$ Huntin'" |
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| 5:30 |
6. | "I Love Me More" |
| MoogStar | 4:31 |
7. | "Sex with Your Ex" |
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| 4:31 |
8. | "She's All Mind All Mind" |
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| 4:32 |
9. | "Star Dust" | MoogStar | 3:48 | |
Total length: | 35:56 |
Credits adapted from liner notes. [20]
Chart (2018) | Peak position |
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US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [21] | 7 |
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [22] | 28 |
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