| Player Piano | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 5 July 2011 | |||
| Genre | Chillwave, electronica | |||
| Length | 39:48 | |||
| Label | Carpark | |||
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Player Piano is the second studio album of Dayve Hawke, under the alias of Memory Tapes. It was released July 5, 2011. [1] The cover art features an image of a gouache painting by Kazuki Takamatsu.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Drowned in Sound |   [2] |
| Pitchfork Media | (6.0/10) [3] |
Player Piano has a review score of 6.8 on the website AnyDecentMusic? [4] and a metacritic score of 67 out of 100, [1] indicating generally favorable reviews.
All music is composed by Memory Tapes.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Musicbox(In)" | 0:42 |
| 2. | "Wait in the Dark" | 4:17 |
| 3. | "Today is Our Life" | 5:15 |
| 4. | "Yes I Know" | 3:42 |
| 5. | "Offers" | 4:00 |
| 6. | "Humming" | 2:47 |
| 7. | "Sun Hits" | 3:36 |
| 8. | "Worries" | 5:28 |
| 9. | "Fell Thru Ice" | 2:09 |
| 10. | "Fell Thru Ice II" | 3:06 |
| 11. | "Trance Sisters" | 3:59 |
| 12. | "Musicbox(Out)" | 0:57 |
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