Mind Bokeh

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Mind Bokeh
Mind bokeh.jpg
Studio album by
Bibio
Released29 March 2011 (2011-03-29)
Genre
Length52:21
Label Warp
Producer Stephen James Wilkinson
Bibio chronology
The Apple and the Tooth
(2009)		Mind Bokeh
(2011)		 Silver Wilkinson
(2013)
Singles from Mind Bokeh
  1. "Excuses"
    Released: 2011
  2. "K Is for Kelson"
    Released: 2011
  3. "T.O.Y.S. (Take Off Your Shirt)"
    Released: 2011
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 75/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
BBC Music favorable [4]
Clash 8/10 [5]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Pitchfork 6.9/10 [7]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Resident Advisor 3.5/5 [9]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Tiny Mix Tapes TMT full.svgTMT empty.svgTMT empty.svgTMT empty.svgTMT empty.svg [12]

Mind Bokeh is a studio album by British electronic musician Bibio, released on Warp. It was released on 29 March 2011 in the United States and 4 April 2011 in the rest of the world. [13] Bibio described the album as a "balance of the familiar and the non-familiar". [14] The title comes from a Japanese word "Bokeh", which means the blurry, out-of-focus part of a photograph. [13]

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75% based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]

Clash named it the 24th best album of 2011. [15]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Stephen James Wilkinson

No.TitleLength
1."Excuses"5:58
2."Pretentious"6:02
3."Anything New"4:07
4."Wake Up!"3:25
5."Light Seep"3:53
6."Take Off Your Shirt"4:04
7."Artists' Valley"6:00
8."K Is for Kelson"3:28
9."Mind Bokeh"2:33
10."More Excuses"4:27
11."Feminine Eye"1:50
12."Saint Christopher"6:34
Total length:52:21
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
13."Vertical Helical Stan"2:24
Total length:54:45

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [16] 6
UK Albums Chart [17] 195
UK Indie Chart [18] 33

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  16. ↑ "Bibio - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard . Retrieved 17 April 2017.
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