Venus in Leo

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Venus in Leo
VenusInLeoAlbum.png
Studio album by
HTRK
Released30 August 2019 (2019-08-30)
Recorded2018-19
StudioDandenong Ranges, Melbourne
Length41:57
Label Ghostly International
Producer HTRK
HTRK chronology
Psychic 9–5 Club
(2014)		Venus in Leo
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 78/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
Pitchfork 7.6/10 [3]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Venus in Leo is the fourth studio album by Australian band HTRK. It was released on 30 August 2019 by Ghostly International. [5] [6] The cover photograph is of Jonnine Standish's childhood home by Warwick Baker. [7]

Contents

You Know How to Make Me Happy, the first single from the album was released on 10 July 2019. [8]

Critical reception

Venus in Leo was met with favourable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 78, based on 7 reviews. [1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang.

No.TitleLength
1."Into the Drama"3:51
2."Mentions"6:22
3."Venus in Leo"5:46
4."You Know How to Make Me Happy"3:47
5."Dream Symbol"5:20
6."Hit 'Em Wit Da Hee"3:17
7."Dying of Jealousy"5:16
8."New Year's Day"3:56
9."New Year's Eve"4:22

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References

  1. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic . Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  2. ↑ Simpson, Paul. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  3. ↑ Minsoo Kim, Joshua (3 September 2019). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  4. ↑ Kneschke, Tristian. "Tiny Mix Tapes Review". Tiny Mix Tapes . Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  5. ↑ Posner, Nina (11 July 2019). "HTRK to release Venus in Leo". Resident Advisor . Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  6. ↑ Bruce-Jones, Henry (10 July 2019). "HTRK return to Ghostly with new album". Fact . Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  7. ↑ www.discogs.com https://www.discogs.com/release/14007689-HTRK-Venus-In-Leo . Retrieved 28 July 2022.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ "Melbourne Duo HTRK next on Ghostly with fourth studio album". XLR8R . 10 July 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.


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