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Length
  
41:37

Boys and Diamonds (2011)
  
FM Sushi (2013)

Release date
  
2011

Genre
  
Electropop

Producer
  
Danny Preston

Artist
  
Rainbow Arabia

Label
  
Kompakt

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Released
  
February 28, 2011 (2011-02-28) (Europe), March 1, 2011 (2011-03-01) (North America)

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Boys and Diamonds is the debut studio album by husband-and-wife electronica duo Rainbow Arabia. It was released on German electronic record label Kompakt on February 28, 2011, and on March 1, 2011 in the United States.

Contents

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Critical reception

The album received widely varying reviews from critics, ranging from an F from Consequence of Sound to an A- from Robert Christgau. Critics who gave the album negative reviews often criticized it for being derivative of world music, or for not living up to the potential of mixing it with electronic pop, as had been Rainbow Arabia's intention. Other critics, though, like Chris Power, praised the album in spite of its derivativeness, because of its memorable hooks, while Allmusic's Rick Anderson wrote that the album exhibited "a well-developed and highly personal sound that draws from any number of exotic musical cultures without depending too much on any one of them."

Track listing

  1. Boys and Diamonds
  2. Without You
  3. Blind
  4. Nothin Gonna Be Undone
  5. Papai
  6. Jungle Bear
  7. Hai
  8. Mechanical
  9. This Life is Practice
  10. Sayer
  11. Sequenced

Personnel

  • Mark Chalecki--Mastering
  • Butchy Fuego--Composer
  • Mudrock--Mixing, producer
  • Rainbow Arabia--Engineer, Primary Artist, Producer
  • Dylan Ryan--Drums
  • Devin Troy Strother--Artwork
  • Songs

    1Boys and Diamonds3:08
    2Without You3:33
    3Nothin' Gonna Be Undone3:35

    References

    Boys and Diamonds Wikipedia