Twelvefour

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twelvefour
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Studio album by
The Paper Kites
Released28 August 2015 (2015-08-28)
RecordedMarch–April 2015
Studio Avast! Recording Company and Hall of Justice
(Seattle, Washington)
Genre
Length43:30
Label
Producer Phil Ek
The Paper Kites chronology
States
(2013)		twelvefour
(2015)		 On the Train Ride Home
(2018)
Singles from twelvefour
  1. "Electric Indigo"
    Released: 19 June 2015 [1]
  2. "Revelator Eyes"
    Released: 20 September 2015 [2]
  3. "Renegade"
    Released: April 2016 [3]
  4. "Too Late"
    Released: December 2016 [4]

Twelvefour (marketed as twelvefour) is the second album by Australian band The Paper Kites, released on 28 August 2015 by Wonderlick Entertainment and Sony Music Australia. [5] [6] The album's release was preceded by lead single "Electric Indigo", released on 19 June 2015. [7] Its video, directed by Matthew J Cox, was released on 13 July. [8] The second single, "Revelator Eyes", followed in September with a video directed by Dan Huiting. [9] "Renegade", the third single, was released along with a video in April 2016.

Contents

The album was written entirely between the hours of midnight and 4 a.m. [5] due to the creativity lead singer and songwriter Sam Bentley felt arise during this time. [7] [10] For this reason, it has been referred to as a concept album. [5] The album was then recorded in Seattle with American producer Phil Ek over six weeks in March and April 2015. The band chose Ek to create a more upbeat sound compared to their previous releases, [7] incorporating electric guitars and synthesizers into their music. [11]

twelvefour debuted at number 8 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart on 5 September 2015. [12] The band embarked on a tour of Australia from 16 October to 8 November 2015 in support of the album. [13] They then toured the United States and Canada across November and December 2015, [11] and Europe in January and February 2016. A film directed by Cox depicting the process of making the album was announced for release later in 2015, [7] but has yet to surface.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The AU Review9.5/10 [14]
The MusicStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [15]
News.com.au Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [16]
PPcorn(positive) [17]
Renowned for Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [18]
Rolling Stone Australia Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [19]
Vulture Magazine(positive) [20]

Gareth Hipwell of Rolling Stone Australia gave the album three out of five stars and felt "Revelator Eyes" sounded as if "The muses of the witching hour [...] have breathed some hazy Eighties nostalgia" into Bentley's songwriting. [19] However, Hipwell criticised his often "insubstantial lyrics". [19]

The AU Review called the album a "fluid progression of sounds and ideas" as well as "[h]ypnotic, whimsical and otherworldly". [14] Jessica Morris of the US-based website PPcorn deemed the album "[c]omplex and delicate" as well as "profound". [17]

Michael Smith of Renowned for Sound gave the album a perfect score of five out of five stars, opining that the change to an upbeat style was a "logical evolution" of the band's sound, and commended "Bentley's consistently moving vocals to the sheer quality of the guitar riffs that give the songs their power". [18] Sara Tamim of Vulture Magazine was "fabulously yet not surprisingly impressed" by the band's second album; she also remarked positively on the interchange of styles and the "new, flurry sound with intergalactic guitar vibes" of opening track "Electric Indigo". [20]

Rating the album four out of five stars, Roshan Clarke of The Music labeled the album a "gorgeous listening experience" and expressed that the "glowing album cover and moody track names like 'Electric Indigo' reflect th[e] nocturnal theme [of the record], but the warm instrumentation transcends any particular time of day". [15]

Writing for News.com.au , Mikey Cahill judged that the album is primarily devoid of egos—"what you hear is what you get". [16] Rating the album three out of five stars, Cahill went on to state that the band sound "calm and delirious" on "Bleed Confusion" and that "Woke Up from a Dream" is "timeless Americana". [16]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Sam Bentley; all music is composed by The Paper Kites

No.TitleLength
1."Electric Indigo"3:43
2."Renegade"3:55
3."Bleed Confusion"4:21
4."Revelator Eyes"4:22
5."Neon Crimson"4:23
6."I'm Lying to You Cause I'm Lost"3:32
7."A Silent Cause"4:23
8."Woke Up from a Dream"4:45
9."Turns Within Me, Turns Without Me"3:53
10."Too Late"6:13

Personnel

Credits adapted from album liner notes. [21]

The Paper Kites

Technical personnel

Artwork

Charts

Chart performance for Twelvefour
Chart (2015)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [12] 8

Release history

Release history and details for Twelvefour
RegionDateFormatLabelCatalogue
Australia28 August 2015 Wonderlick Entertainment / Sony Music Australia LICK0014
United Stated Nettwerk 0 6700 31087 2 0

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