Perfect Shapes

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Perfect Shapes
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Studio album by
Madeline Kenney
ReleasedOctober 5, 2018 (2018-10-05)
RecordedJanuary 2018
Genre
Length37:34
Madeline Kenney chronology
Night Night at the First Landing
(2017)		Perfect Shapes
(2018)		Sucker's Lunch
(2020)
Singles from Perfect Shapes
  1. "Cut Me Off"
    Released: July 12, 2018 [3]
  2. "Bad Idea"
    Released: September 14, 2018 [4]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.3/10 [5]
Metacritic 76/100 [6]
Review scores
SourceRating
The 405 7.5/10 [7]
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Drowned in Sound 8/10 [8]
God Is in the TV 9/10 [9]
Paste 7.5/10 [10]
Pitchfork 7.2/10 [2]

Perfect Shapes is the second studio album by American indie rock musician Madeline Kenney. It was released on October 5, 2018 under Carpark Records. [3]

Contents

Production

The album was recorded in January 2018 in Durham, North Carolina, alongside producer Jenn Wasner. [9]

Critical reception

Perfect Shapes was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 76, based on 8 reviews. [6] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 77 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 9 reviews. [11]

Joe Goggins of Drowned in Sound admired Kenney's vocals saying that unlike her previous album, it stood out "front and centre, ringing out honeyed and clear as a bell with only minimal effects applied", and noted the album is "so sharply made in Kenney's own non-conformist image, and she gets away with it. On this form, she's destined for alt-pop greatness." [8]

Accolades

Accolades for Perfect Shapes
PublicationAccoladeRank
God Is in the TV God Is in the TV's Top 50 Albums of 2018
84 [12]
Under the Radar Under the Radar's Top 100 Albums of 2018
73 [13]

Track listing

Perfect Shapes track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Overhead"3:57
2."Bad Idea"4:05
3."Cut Me Off"3:19
4."No Weekend"2:59
5."Know"4:23
6."The Flavor of the Fruit Tree"3:29
7."I Went Home"3:38
8."Perfect Shapes"4:35
9."Your Art"3:27
10."Always Around Me"3:42

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 3 Donelson, Marcy. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  2. 1 2 Hussey, Allison (October 8, 2018). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  3. 1 2 Shoemaker, Allison (July 12, 2018). "Madeline Kenney announces sophomore album". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  4. ↑ Horn, Olivia (September 14, 2018). "Bad Idea by Madeline Kenny". Pitchfork . Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  5. ↑ "AnyDecentMusic? Review". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  6. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic . Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  7. ↑ Glover, Nicholas. "Madeline Kenney enjoys every second on the subtly engaging Perfect Shapes". Archived from the original on October 9, 2018. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  8. 1 2 Goggins, Joe (October 30, 2018). "Drowned in Sound Review". Drowned in Sound . Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  9. 1 2 Elkin, Troy (October 1, 2018). "God Is in the TV Review". God Is in the TV . Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  10. ↑ Johnson, Ellen (October 10, 2018). "Paste Magazine Review". Paste . Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  11. ↑ "Album of the Year Review". Album of the Year. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  12. ↑ "GIITTV Album of the Year". God Is in the TV . December 10, 2018. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  13. ↑ "Under the Radar's Top 100 Albums of 2018". Under the Radar . December 30, 2018. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
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