Still Night, Still Light

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Still Night, Still Light
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ReleasedMay 19, 2009 (2009-05-19)
Genre Indie pop, dream pop
Length47:47
Label Moshi Moshi Records
Our Secret Record Company
Producer
Au Revoir Simone chronology
The Bird of Music
(2007)
Still Night, Still Light
(2009)
Move in Spectrums
(2013)

Still Night, Still Light is the third studio album by American indie pop band Au Revoir Simone. It was released on Moshi Moshi Records and Our Secret Record Company on May 19, 2009. The album was produced by Thom Monahan.

Contents

The remix album, titled Night Light, was released in 2010. [1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 71/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Drowned in Sound 7/10 [4]
Pitchfork 7.8/10 [5]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 71% based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Another Likely Story"4:39
2."Shadows"4:03
3."All or Nothing"4:28
4."Knight of Wands"3:49
5."The Last One"4:42
6."Trace a Line"3:58
7."Only You Can Make You Happy"4:58
8."Take Me as I Am"2:23
9."Anywhere You Looked"3:40
10."Organized Scenery"3:13
11."We Are Here"3:51
12."Tell Me"4:11

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [6] 25

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