Silver Ladders (album)

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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 9, 2020 (2020-10-09)
Length40:18
Label Ghostly International
Mary Lattimore chronology
New Rain Duets
(2019)
Silver Ladders
(2020)

Silver Ladders is the fourth studio album by American harpist Mary Lattimore. It was released on October 9, 2020 under the Ghostly International label. Produced by Slowdive's Neil Halstead, it has been described as the album where Lattimore "sets herself apart as a bright innovator who pushes expectation." [1]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 85/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Line of Best Fit 8/10 [1]
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Pitchfork 7.7/10 [5]

Silver Ladders was met with 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 85, based on 10 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". [2]

Accolades

The album was included in 13 best-albums-of-2020 lists, including those by The New Yorker , Drowned in Sound , NPR Music, The Quietus , The Wire , BrooklynVegan , Gorilla vs. Bear, Pitchfork , AllMusic and XLR8R . [6]

Track listing

Silver Ladders track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Pine Trees"3:20
2."Silver Ladders"3:45
3."Til a Mermaid Drags You Under"10:26
4."Sometimes He's in My Dreams"3:46
5."Chop on the Climbout"5:57
6."Don't Look"8:03
7."Thirty Tulips"4:58

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