Length 40:19 Artist The Rentals Producer Matt Sharp Genre Alternative rock | Lost in Alphaville
(2014) - Release date 25 August 2014 Label Polyvinyl Record Co. | |
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Released August 22, 2014 (digital)
August 25, 2014 Recorded 2013 in Los Angeles, Nashville and New Orleans Similar Return of the Rentals, Seven More Minutes, Good Grief, Wildewoman, Sukierae | ||
The rentals it s time to come home official music video
Lost in Alphaville is the third full-length studio album by The Rentals, released on August 25, 2014, through Polyvinyl Records. The album is available on CD, vinyl, cassette and as a digital download. It marks the band's first full-length album since their 1999 release Seven More Minutes and their first-ever release through Polyvinyl, who they signed with in December 2013.
Contents
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Background and recording
After The Rentals disbanded following the tour for 1999's Seven More Minutes, the band reunited in 2005 and released The Last Little Life EP as well as four mini-albums as part of their multimedia project Songs About Time throughout 2009.
On December 5, 2013, Matt Sharp announced that The Rentals had signed with Polyvinyl Records for the release of their forthcoming studio album, which would be their first full-length in 15 years. The album, recorded in Los Angeles, Nashville and New Orleans, is mostly made up of newly rerecorded songs from Songs About Time and features The Black Keys' drummer Patrick Carney, Lucius' Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig on vocals, Ozma's guitarist Ryen Slegr and Lauren Chipman of The Section Quartet on viola and piano. Sharp and the band are credited with producing the album and it was mixed by Grammy-winning producer Dave Sardy.
Critical reception
Lost in Alphaville received mostly positive feedback from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 69 out of 100, which indicates "generally favorable reviews" based on 13 reviews.
Tim Sendra of AllMusic calls the album "a huge-sounding modern indie rock album with a glossy sheen on the surface, but all kinds of heart beating just below." Giving the album an eight out of ten rating, Jeff Milo of Paste writes, "It’s far from the slapped-together shambolic style of ‘90s power-pop; no, this sounds much more arranged, almost like tightened chamber pop if it were clouded by the murk of shoegaze."
Track listing
All tracks written by Matt Sharp.
Personnel
Credits adapted from AllMusic:
Songs
1It's Time To Come Home4:00
2Traces Of Our Tears3:26
3Stardust2:48