Mended with Gold

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Mended with Gold
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Studio album by
Released30 October 2014
StudioCandle Recording, Toronto
Genre Indie rock, Indie folk
Length38:43
Label Paper Bag Records (CAN)
Saddle Creek Records (US)
Producer Leon Taheny
Matt Lederman
The Rural Alberta Advantage chronology
Departing
(2011)
Mended with Gold
(2014)
The Wild
(2017)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 74/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Exclaim! 8/10 [3]
Paste 7.2/10 [4]

Mended with Gold is the third full-length album by Canadian indie rock band The Rural Alberta Advantage, released 30 October 2014 on Paper Bag Records in Canada and Saddle Creek Records in the United States. [5]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Our Love..."2:55
2."This City"2:26
3."On the Rocks"3:26
4."Terrified"3:04
5."Runners in the Night"3:27
6."To Be Scared"3:23
7."45/33"3:45
8."All We've Ever Known"2:48
9."The Build"3:10
10."Vulcan, AB"2:50
11."Not Love or Death"3:34
12."...On the Run"3:58

Personnel

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References

  1. "Metacritic Review". Metacritic . Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  2. Christopher Monger, James. "Mended with Gold - The Rural Alberta Advantage". AllMusic . Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  3. Lang, Alison (September 26, 2014). "Exclaim! Review". Exclaim! . Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  4. Cosores, Philip (September 30, 2014). "Paste Magazine Review". Paste . Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  5. "New Album, Mended With Gold, out September 30". 8 July 2014.