Wonder Where We Land

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Wonder Where We Land
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Studio album by
Released7 October 2014 (2014-10-07)
Recorded Osea Island, Essex, UK
London, UK
Los Angeles, CA
New York, NY [1]
Genre
Length42:23
Label Young Turks
Producer SBTRKT
SBTRKT chronology
SBTRKT
(2011)
Wonder Where We Land
(2014)
SAVE YOURSELF
(2016)
Singles from Wonder Where We Land
  1. "Temporary View"
    Released: 6 June 2014
  2. "NEW DORP. NEW YORK."
    Released: 23 July 2014

Wonder Where We Land is the second studio album from British producer SBTRKT. It was released on 7 October 2014 through Young Turks. [2]

Contents

Background

For Wonder Where We Land, SBTRKT aimed to expand the concept of the SBTRKT identity belonging to one person by diverging from the club-inspired and minimal approach of SBTRKT's first album. In order to achieve this, SBTRKT brought in a larger array of singers and musicians and conducted sessions in the USA and the UK, notably Osea, a remote island of the coast of Essex. SBTRKT and SBTRKT's visual collaborator, A Hidden Place chose to visually reflect this expansion of the SBTRKT identity by depicting the concept of SBTRKT as an unknown quadrupedal masked creature on the artwork of this album. [3]

The record is dedicated to SBTRKT's older brother, Daniel, who died from cancer during the album's creation. [4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 71/100 [5]
Review scores
SourceRating
Paste 9.3/10 [6]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Clash 8/10 [8]
Consequence of Sound B+ [9]
Pitchfork 5.5/10 [10]

Wonder Where We Land received mostly positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 71, based on 21 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". [5]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Day 1"0:33
2."Wonder Where We Land" (featuring Sampha)2:45
3."Lantern"2:00
4."Higher" (featuring Raury)4:13
5."Day 5"0:23
6."Look Away" (featuring Caroline Polachek)4:16
7."Osea" (featuring Koreless)2:38
8."Temporary View" (featuring Sampha)3:26
9."NEW DORP. NEW YORK." (featuring Ezra Koenig)3:00
10."Everybody Knows"3:31
11."Problem (Solved)" (featuring Jessie Ware)2:39
12."If It Happens" (featuring Sampha)1:29
13."Gon Stay" (featuring Sampha)3:36
14."The Light" (featuring Denai Moore)3:06
15."Voices in My Head" (featuring ASAP Ferg)4:48
Total length:42:23
Deluxe edition bonus tracks [11]
No.TitleLength
16."Forgotten" (featuring Raury)0:59
17."Paper Cuts"2:27
18."War Drums" (featuring Warpaint)2:55
19."Spaced Out" (featuring Boogie)3:40
20."Maybe" (featuring Andrew Ashong and Sampha)3:17
21."Decemberist"2:27
22."Tamagotchi (Bonus Track)"2:24
23."Told You (Bonus Track)"3:53
Total length:64:25

Charts

ChartsPeak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [12] 20
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [13] 58
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [14] 83
French Albums (SNEP) [15] 80
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [16] 66
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [17] 44
UK Albums (OCC) [18] 16
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [19] 2
US Billboard 200 [20] 84

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