| Whereabouts | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | May 18, 1999 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 39:05 | |||
| Label | Interscope | |||
| Producer | Tchad Blake, Mitchell Froom [1] | |||
| Ron Sexsmith chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
| Rolling Stone |  [4] |
| Spin | 8/10 [5] |
Whereabouts is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, released in 1999 on Interscope Records. [6] [7] The album was a nominee for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo at the 2000 Juno Awards. [8]
Entertainment Weekly wrote that "producers Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake do a wonderfully understated job of colorizing Sexsmith’s sad-kid melodies and voice." [1] The Washington Post wrote that the album "suggests the songs of a less clever Elvis Costello sung by David Byrne in his most earnest mode." [9] Rolling Stone called it "twelve near-perfect songs, the whole clocking in at under forty minutes." [4] Trouser Press wrote: "Carrying along such instrumental window dressing as banjo, strings, woodwinds and horns, it is overly languorous and stylistically diverse." [10] The New Yorker called the songs "either low-country laments or mid-tempo lullabies—minimalist heartbreakers all." [11]
All tracks are written by Ronald Eldon Sexsmith.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Still Time" | 3:15 |
| 2. | "Right About Now" | 2:48 |
| 3. | "Must Have Heard It Wrong" | 2:15 |
| 4. | "Riverbed" | 3:55 |
| 5. | "Feel for You" | 3:42 |
| 6. | "In a Flash" | 3:03 |
| 7. | "The Idiot Boy" | 2:47 |
| 8. | "Beautiful View" | 2:52 |
| 9. | "One Grey Morning" | 3:56 |
| 10. | "Doomed" | 3:25 |
| 11. | "Every Passing Day" | 2:52 |
| 12. | "Seem to Recall" | 4:15 |
| Total length: | 39:05 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 13. | "Tears Behind the Shades" | 2:38 |
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