Recovery (Bobby Conn album)

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Recovery
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 20, 2020 (2020-03-20)
Length46:51
Label Tapete
Bobby Conn chronology
Macaroni
(2012)
Recovery
(2020)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 68/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
PopMatters 7/10 [2]

Recovery is a studio album by American musician Bobby Conn. It was released on March 20, 2020 under Tapete Records. [3] [4]

Contents

Critical reception

Recovery 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 68, based on 5 reviews. [1]

Track listing

Recovery track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Recovery"4:15
2."Disposable Future"5:37
3."Good Old Days"5:23
4."No Grownups"3:15
5."Brother"4:59
6."On the Nose"4:51
7."Bijou"3:45
8."Disaster"3:47
9."It's a Young Man's Game"4:44
10."Always Already"6:15

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References

  1. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic . Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  2. Griffiths, Peter (March 23, 2020). "Bobby Conn's 'Recovery' Is Occasionally Excellent". PopMatters . Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  3. "Bobby Conn's new album confronts the cruel delusion of 'self-help'". Chicago Reader . March 17, 2020. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  4. Bang, Jan. "Bobby Conn – Recovery and interview: "my career is a bit of a mystery to me"". Freq. Retrieved May 24, 2020.