Simple Songs (Jim O'Rourke album)

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Simple Songs
Jim O'Rourke's Simple Songs' Cover Art.jpg
Studio album by
Jim O'Rourke
ReleasedMay 19, 2015
Recorded2009–2015 [1]
StudioHoshi To Niji, Steamroom (Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan)
Genre
Length37:38
Label Drag City
Producer Jim O'Rourke
Jim O'Rourke chronology
The Visitor
(2009)		Simple Songs
(2015)		 Hands That Bind
(2023)

Simple Songs is the third singer-songwriter album by American musician Jim O'Rourke. It was released on May 19, 2015, on Drag City and is the final album by O'Rourke for the record label. [2] The album was released nearly fourteen years after O'Rourke's previous singer-songwriter album Insignificance (2001). [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.0/10 [4]
Metacritic 86/100 [5]
Review scores
SourceRating
American Songwriter Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Consequence of Sound B [7]
Exclaim! 8/10 [8]
Financial Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
The Line of Best Fit 9/10 [10]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Pitchfork 8.6/10 [12]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Uncut 8/10 [14]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 86 based on 14 professional reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". [5]

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeYearRank
Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 20152015
45 [15]
Stereogum The 50 Best Albums of 20152015
9 [16]
The Wire Releases of the Year 1–502015
7 [17]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jim O'Rourke

No.TitleLength
1."Friends with Benefits"5:25
2."That Weekend"3:15
3."Half Life Crisis"4:42
4."Hotel Blue"3:21
5."These Hands"3:13
6."Last Year"5:47
7."End of the Road"5:33
8."All Your Love"6:22
Total length:37:38

Personnel

The following people contributed to Simple Songs: [18]

Main personnel
Additional personnel

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  14. ↑ Mulvey, John (July 2015). "Jim O'Rourke: Simple Songs". Uncut (218): 80.
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