There Will Be No Intermission | ||||
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Released | March 8, 2019 | |||
Studio | 64 Sound in Los Angeles, California | |||
Length | 78:00 | |||
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Producer | John Congleton | |||
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There Will Be No Intermission is the third solo studio album by American musician Amanda Palmer. It was released on March 8, 2019, through Cooking Vinyl. It was crowdfunded through Patreon and recorded by Palmer in collaboration with John Congleton over the course of a month. It was supported by a 2019–2020 tour. [1] The vinyl version of the album was released on March 29, 2019. [2]
Palmer stated that "Most of these songs were exercises in survival. This isn't really the record that I was planning to make. But loss and death kept happening in real-time, and these songs became my therapeutic arsenal of tools for making sense of it all." [1] She also said that "The kind of stories that I'm sharing on this record—abortion, miscarriage, cancer, grief, the darker sides of parenthood—have been therapeutic and frightening to write." [3]
The demos of "Bigger on the Inside" (originally featuring Zoë Keating), "The Thing About Things", "A Mother's Confession", "Machete", "Drowning in the Sound", and "Judy Blume" were all released as promotional singles on March 9, 2015, May 26, 2015, February 25, 2016, March 9, 2016, August 31, 2017, and February 12, 2018, respectively. "Judy Blume" and "Look Mummy, No Hands" were previously included on the 2013 live album An Evening with Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer. "Judy Blume" also received a music video on February 12, 2019. [4]
"The Ride" (originally released as a Patron-exclusive video on October 26, 2017 [5] ) was previewed with a performance on NPR's All Things Considered on February 13, 2019. [6]
The studio version of "Drowning in the Sound" was released as the first official single from the album along with the album pre-order on December 11, 2018. [7] A music video was released on August 8, 2019. [8]
"Voicemail for Jill" was released as the second single on February 19, 2019.[ citation needed ] A music video for the song was released on March 7, 2019.
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AnyDecentMusic? | 7.2/10 [9] |
Metacritic | 78/100 [10] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [11] |
The Irish Times | 8/10 [12] |
The Line of Best Fit | 9/10 [13] |
NME | [14] |
PopMatters | [15] |
The album has received a score of 78/100 from media aggregate site Metacritic based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [10]
All songs written by Amanda Palmer, except where noted
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "All the Things" | 1:23 |
2. | "The Ride" | 10:13 |
3. | "Congratulations" | 0:37 |
4. | "Drowning in the Sound" (Palmer, Ben Folds) | 5:45 |
5. | "Hold on Tight, Darling" | 0:40 |
6. | "The Thing About Things" | 5:35 |
7. | "Life's Such a Bitch Isn't It" | 0:33 |
8. | "Judy Blume" | 6:45 |
9. | "Feeding the Dark" | 0:20 |
10. | "Bigger on the Inside" | 8:29 |
11. | "There Will Be No Intermission" | 1:01 |
12. | "Machete" | 6:09 |
13. | "You Know the Statistics" | 0:38 |
14. | "Voicemail for Jill" | 5:34 |
15. | "You'd Think I'd Shot Their Children" | 1:43 |
16. | "A Mother's Confession" | 10:37 |
17. | "They're Saying Not to Panic" | 0:27 |
18. | "Look Mummy, No Hands" (Dillie Keane) | 5:30 |
19. | "Intermission Is Relative" | 0:54 |
20. | "Death Thing" | 5:00 |
Total length: | 78:00 |
Taken from the album's liner notes.
Throughout 2019 and 2020, Palmer embarked on the There Will Be No Intermission World Tour. The over four-hour long show featureed a mix of both songs and storytelling themed around Palmer's personal life. The Los Angeles performance, as well as the December 13 and 14th London shows, were recorded exclusively for her Patrons on Patreon. [16] On March 14, 2019, Palmer performed a three-hour excerpt of There Will Be No Intermission at Central Presbyterian Church, as part of the SXSW Music Festival.
The following represents the May 11, 2019 filmed performance in Los Angeles. It does not represent all dates throughout the tour.
Act I
Act II
Chart (2019) | Peak position |
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Australian Digital Albums (ARIA) [20] | 40 |
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [21] | 30 |
Scottish Albums (OCC) [22] | 49 |
US Billboard 200 [23] | 169 |
US Folk Albums (Billboard) [24] | 6 |
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [25] | 3 |
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [26] | 14 |
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [27] | 33 |
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