Modern Love (Matt Nathanson album)

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Modern Love
Modern Love.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 21, 2011
Genre Pop rock [1] [2]
Length41:23
Label Vanguard / Acrobat
Producer Mark Weinberg, Matt Nathanson, Marshall Altman
Matt Nathanson chronology
Some Mad Hope
(2007)
Modern Love
(2011)
Last of the Great Pretenders
(2013)
Singles from Faster
  1. "Faster"
    Released: March 29, 2011
  2. "Room @ the End of the World"
    Released: September 2011
  3. "Run"
    Released: November 9, 2011
  4. "Modern Love"
    Released: April 2012

Modern Love is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Matt Nathanson. It was released on June 21, 2011. Modern Love was Nathanson's second album for Vanguard Records, following his 2007 album Some Mad Hope . He released the first single, "Faster", as a free download to his fan mailing list in March 2011. Modern Love debuted at number 17 on the Billboard 200 for the week of July 9, 2011. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic (72/100) [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Entertainment Weekly B− [5]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
RoughstockStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Uncut (positive) [4]

Modern Love received positive reviews from music critics. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72, based on 4 reviews. [4]

Jedd Beaudoin of PopMatters called it "the closest a pop album comes to perfection this year", giving high praise to the track listing for being an amalgam of late 80s to early 90s pop music and balancing both its ballads and upbeat tracks, concluding that it will have "a long and positive legacy, one that can be appreciated by a broad audience if only that audience can listen without prejudice." [6] AllMusic editor Andrew Leahey commended Nathanson for making a consistent project that puts a polished sheen into his signature musicianship from the previous record but found it overall to be "almost meticulously inoffensive," concluding that its "both the blessing and the curse of this album, which charts a steady path but offers few surprises as a result." [1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Matt Nathanson and Mark Weinberg except as noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Faster" 3:28
2."Modern Love" 3:32
3."Love Comes Tumbling Down" 4:40
4."Room @ the End of the World" 4:08
5."Kiss Quick" 4:26
6."Mercy" 3:09
7."Kept" 3:21
8."Run" (featuring Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush)Nathanson, Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush 4:09
9."Queen of (K)nots" 4:10
10."Drop to Hold You" 3:39
11."Bottom of the Sea" 2:46

Personnel

Musicians

Horn Section

Group Vocals

"Run" Featured Artists

Charts

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