Through the Window

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Through the Window
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 19, 2013 (2013-03-19)
RecordedOctober 1–7, 2011 [1]
Genre Techno, noise
Length31:42
Label Blackest Ever Black
Producer Dominick Fernow, Kris Lapke
Prurient chronology
Worship Is the Cleansing of the Imagination
(2012)
Through the Window
(2013)
Washed Against the Rocks
(2014)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 77/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Exclaim! 7/10 [3]
Pitchfork 7.4/10.0 [4]

Through the Window is an album by the American music project Prurient, a performing name of artist Dominick Fernow. The three-song album was released on March 19, 2013 through the English label Blackest Ever Black. [5] Though released in 2013, the tracks for Through the Window were recorded in October 2011 [1] at the same time as Prurient's two Hydra Head Records releases — the studio album Bermuda Drain (2011) and the EP Time's Arrow (2011) [5] — and were noted for musically showing more techno influences, akin to one of Fernow's other projects, Vatican Shadow. [6]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Through the Window" – 17:40
  2. "Terracotta Spine" – 3:51
  3. "You Show Great Spirit" – 10:11

Personnel

Through the Window personnel adapted from AllMusic. [1]

Music

Production

Artwork and packaging

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References

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  2. "Reviews for Through the Window by Prurient". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved May 16, 2015.
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