Personal Record (album)

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Personal Record
Personal Record (Eleanor Friedberger album).jpg
Studio album by
Eleanor Friedberger
ReleasedJune 4, 2013
RecordedOctober 2012
Genre Indie pop
Length46:12
Label Merge
Producer Eric Broucek
Eleanor Friedberger chronology
Last Summer
(2011)		Personal Record
(2013)		 New View
(2016)

Personal Record is the second solo album released by American indie pop musician Eleanor Friedberger, most notable for being vocalist in the band The Fiery Furnaces with her brother Matthew Friedberger. The album was released on 4 June 2013 on the Merge Records label. [1] [2] The album was co-written by Friedberger and folk singer and novelist John Wesley Harding. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
Consequence of Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Tiny Mix Tapes TMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT half.svg [6]
Paste Magazine 8.3/10 [7]
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
PopMatters 8/10 [9]
Pitchfork Media 8.1/10 [3]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [10]

The album received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, which indicates "generally favorable reviews," based on 16 reviews. [4] Lindsay Zoladz of Pitchfork Media praised the "tight, buoyant pop arrangements" and wrote that "very few [indie rock songwriters] are writing with half the precision, wit, and cool poise that Friedberger displays here." [3] Heather Phares of Allmusic wrote that "even if the album is more comforting than exciting, it's still an enjoyable portrait of Friedberger's artistry: warm, genuine, and a little mischievous." [8] Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Randall Roberts called the lyrics "odd" and the album itself "wonderfully askew," but said that though the album is not immediately gratifying, it is "a challenge worth taking." [10]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."I Don't Want to Bother You"3:56
2."When I Knew"3:45
3."I'll Never Be Happy Again"3:19
4."Stare at the Sun"2:56
5."Echo or Encore"4:50
6."My Own World"3:37
7."Tomorrow Tomorrow"3:20
8."You'll Never Know Me"3:24
9."I Am the Past"3:27
10."She's a Mirror"3:46
11."Other Boys"6:06
12."Singing Time"3:46

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References

  1. ↑ "Merge Records: Personal Record official album page". Merge Records . Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  2. ↑ "Pitchfork Announcement". Pitchfork Media. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 Zoladz, Lindsay (2013-06-05). "Album Review". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
  4. 1 2 "Personal Record Reviews". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 2013-06-07.
  5. ↑ Kivel, Adam (Jun 4, 2013). "Album Review: Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved Jun 5, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record". Tinymixtapes.com. Retrieved 2013-06-07.
  7. ↑ Danaher, Michael (2013-06-03). "Album Review". Pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 2013-06-07.
  8. 1 2 Phares, Heather. "Personal Record". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2013-06-07.
  9. ↑ Pan, Arnold (2013-06-04). "Album Review". Popmatters.com. Retrieved 2013-06-07.
  10. 1 2 Roberts, Randall (2013-06-04). "Review: Eleanor Friedberger's 'Personal Record' is wonderfully askew". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
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