Whispermoon

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Whispermoon
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Studio album by Listener
Released July 29, 2003 (2003-07-29)
Genre Hip hop
Length58:42
Label Mush Records
Producer Dust, Fred Bruno, Gruntwork, Ill, Listener
Listener chronology
Whispermoon
(2003)		Ozark Empire
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Dusted Magazinefavorable [2]
Exclaim! favorable [3]
Pitchfork 6.6/10 [4]
Stylus Magazine C [5]

Whispermoon is the debut studio album by Listener. It was released on Mush Records on July 29, 2003. [6] It peaked at number 163 on the CMJ Radio 200 chart [7] and at number 4 on CMJ's Hip-Hop chart. [8]

Mush Records is an American independent record label. It was founded by Robert Curcio and Cindy Roché in 1997.

CMJ Holdings, Corp. was a music events and online media company which ran a website, hosted an annual festival in New York City, and published CMJ New Music Monthly.

Contents

Critical reception

Jason MacNeil of AllMusic gave the album 3 stars out of 5, saying, "Not as polished or glossy as bigger rap stars, this record has a certain independent aura around it." [1] Rollie Pemberton of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.6 out of 10 and said, "The saving grace of Whispermoon is its varied production." [4]

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Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."The Moon Cries Out"0:42
2."FYI"4:42
3."You're So Underground"4:40
4."Emotional"3:22
5."Winter Life"2:01
6."Train Song"5:18
7."Decadence"4:55
8."I'm Beginning to Hear Whispers"2:42
9."Ways of the Wind"4:45
10."You Will Be My Music"3:56
11."Behind These Doors"5:38
12."Wundering"3:05
13."Crystal Methods"4:14
14."It's a Lonely World"4:19
15."Untitled"4:29

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References

  1. 1 2 MacNeil, Jason. "Whispermoon - Listener". AllMusic . Retrieved May 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ Ho, Brian (October 2, 2003). "Dusted Reviews: Listener - Whispermoon". Dusted Magazine. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
  3. ↑ Quinlan, Thomas (September 1, 2003). "The Listener - Whispermoon". Exclaim! . Retrieved May 26, 2017.
  4. 1 2 Pemberton, Rollie (November 20, 2003). "Listener: Whispermoon". Pitchfork . Retrieved May 26, 2017.
  5. ↑ Burns, Todd (September 1, 2003). "Listener - Whispermoon". Stylus Magazine . Archived from the original on May 4, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
  6. ↑ "MH-217: Listener - Whispermoon". Mush Records . Retrieved May 26, 2017.
  7. ↑ "CMJ Radio 200 (Period Ending 8/26/2003)". CMJ New Music Report : 11. September 8, 2003.
  8. ↑ "Hip-Hop (Period Ending 8/26/2003)". CMJ New Music Report : 18. September 8, 2003.
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