Winter & the Wolves

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Winter & the Wolves
Studio album by Grieves
Released March 25, 2014 (2014-03-25)
Genre Hip hop
Length51:57
Label Rhymesayers Entertainment
Producer Grieves, B. Lewis
Grieves chronology
Together/Apart
(2011) Together/Apart2011		Winter & the Wolves
(2014)		Running Wild
(2017)Running Wild2017
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 58/100 [1]
Review scores
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AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
HipHopDX Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Pitchfork 4.7/10 [5]

Winter & the Wolves is the fourth studio album by American hip hop artist Grieves. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment in 2014. [6] It peaked at number 57 on the Billboard 200 chart. [7]

Grieves rapper

Benjamin Laub, better known by his stage name Grieves, is an American hip hop artist based in Seattle, Washington. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he lived in Colorado, San Diego, and New York City. He is signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment.

Rhymesayers Entertainment US record label

Rhymesayers Entertainment is an American hip hop independent record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was co-founded in 1995 by Sean Daley (Slug), Anthony Davis (Ant), Musab Saad and Brent Sayers (Siddiq). Beginning in 2008, Rhymesayers Entertainment sponsors the annual Soundset Music Festival, a popular attraction that takes place over Memorial Day weekend in Minneapolis.

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its "number ones", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 in May 1967, and acquired its present title in March 1992. Its previous names include the Billboard Top LPs (1961–72), Billboard Top LPs & Tape (1972–84), Billboard Top 200 Albums (1984–85) and Billboard Top Pop Albums.

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Winter & the Wolves received an average score of 58% based on 4 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [1]

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: films, TV shows, music albums, video games, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged. Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's "premier" review aggregator.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Rain Damage"4:00
2."Whoa Is Me"2:43
3."Over You" (featuring B. Lewis)4:24
4."Serpents"3:44
5."Breath of Air"4:14
6."Astronauts" (featuring Slug)3:51
7."Autumn"3:05
8."How's It Gonna Go" (featuring B. Lewis)4:26
9."Recluse"3:19
10."Like Child"2:50
11."Long One"3:21
12."Kidding Me"4:30
13."Shreds"3:07
14."Smoke in the Night"4:23

Charts

Chart Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [8] 57
US Independent Albums ( Billboard ) [9] 10
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums ( Billboard ) [10] 13
US Rap Albums ( Billboard ) [11] 7

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  3. ↑ Ham, Robert (March 26, 2014). "Grieves - Winter & The Wolves". Alternative Press . Retrieved 2014-11-29.
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  7. ↑ Ivey, Justin (June 29, 2017). "Grieves Unveils Cover Art, Tracklist & Release Date For "Running Wild"". HipHopDX . Retrieved October 21, 2017.
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  9. ↑ "Grieves - Chart history - Independent Albums". Billboard . Retrieved December 4, 2015.
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