Lushlife (album)

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Lushlife
BoweryElectricLushlife.jpg
Studio album by
Bowery Electric
ReleasedFebruary 22, 2000 (2000-02-22)
Genre Trip hop [1]
Length50:35
Label Beggars Banquet Records
Producer Bowery Electric
Bowery Electric chronology
Vertigo
(1997)		Lushlife
(2000)
Singles from Lushlife
  1. "Lushlife"
    Released: 1999 (1999)
  2. "Freedom Fighter"
    Released: 1999 (1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Billboard favorable [4]
CMJ New Music Report favorable [5]
Exclaim! unfavorable [6]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Lushlife is the third and final studio album by Bowery Electric. [5] It was released on Beggars Banquet Records on February 22, 2000. [5]

Contents

Reception

Andy Kellman of AllMusic gave the album 3 stars out of 5, commenting that "Lawrence Chandler's beats, though highly clichéd at points, land harder than before, and Martha Schwendener's vocals are more prominent." [2] He called it their "most song-based" and "most accessible" work. [2]

Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle gave the album 4 stars out of 5, describing it as "a morphine drip of an album, so clear and precise in its smokey, sexy grooves that it seems almost too easy to compare them to fellow late-night nodders Portishead." [3] Sarah Zupko of PopMatters gave the album 6 stars out of 10, saying, "the tone herein is decidedly downcast and often forlorn." [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener.

No.TitleLength
1."Floating World"4:44
2."Lushlife"7:52
3."Shook Ones"4:50
4."Psalms of Survival"4:40
5."Soul City"3:42
6."Freedom Fighter"3:47
7."Saved"6:11
8."Deep Blue"4:19
9."After Landing"3:52
10."Passages"6:38

Personnel

Bowery Electric

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References

  1. ↑ O'Neil, Sean (May 15, 2014). "Bowery Electric rewired shoegaze to trip-hop to create a huge '90s sound". The A.V. Club . Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Kellman, Andy. "Bowery Electric - Lushlife". AllMusic . Retrieved March 27, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Savlov, Marc (March 17, 2000). "Bowery Electric: Lushlife (Beggars Banquet)". The Austin Chronicle . Retrieved March 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ Paoletta, Michael (February 26, 2000). "Bowery Electric: Lushlife". Billboard : 25.
  5. 1 2 3 Bauer, Carlene (February 21, 2000). "Bowery Electric: Lushlife (Beggars Banquet)". CMJ New Music Report : 20.
  6. ↑ Wodskou, Chris (January 31, 2000). "Bowery Electric: Lushlife". Exclaim! . Retrieved March 27, 2016.
  7. 1 2 Zupko, Sarah. "Bowery Electric: Lushlife". PopMatters . Retrieved March 27, 2016.
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