| White Knight | ||||
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| Released | May 12, 2017 | |||
| Recorded | 2016–2017 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 52:38 41:40 (vinyl) | |||
| Label | Cleopatra Records | |||
| Producer | Todd Rundgren | |||
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White Knight is the 26th solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Todd Rundgren. The album was released on May 12, 2017, by Cleopatra Records. [1]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 60/100 [2] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| American Songwriter |  [4] |
| The A.V. Club | C [5] |
| Pitchfork | 6.6/10 [6] |
| Rolling Stone | [7] |
| The Spill Magazine | [8] |
White Knight received generally mixed reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 60, based on 6 reviews. [2]
All tracks are written by Todd Rundgren and the featured artists.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Come" | 4:07 |
| 2. | "I Got Your Back" (featuring KK Watson and Dâm-Funk) | 3:38 |
| 3. | "Chance for Us" (featuring Daryl Hall and Bobby Strickland) | 4:14 |
| 4. | "Fiction" | 3:41 |
| 5. | "Beginning (Of the End)" (featuring John Boutté) | 3:55 |
| 6. | "Tin Foil Hat" (featuring Donald Fagen) | 3:23 |
| 7. | "Look at Me" (featuring Michael Holman) | 3:08 |
| 8. | "Let's Do This" (featuring Moe Berg) | 3:07 |
| 9. | "Sleep" (featuring Joe Walsh) | 2:52 |
| 10. | "That Could Have Been Me" (featuring Robyn) | 3:18 |
| 11. | "Deaf Ears" (featuring Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) | 2:58 |
| 12. | "Naked & Afraid" (featuring Bettye LaVette) | 3:57 |
| 13. | "Buy My T" | 3:10 |
| 14. | "Wouldn't You Like to Know" (featuring Rebop Rundgren) | 3:53 |
| 15. | "This Is Not a Drill" (featuring Joe Satriani, Kasim Sulton and Prairie Prince) | 3:17 |
The vinyl version of the album lacks tracks 7, 12, and 14.
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