Released 4 February 2011 | Length 41:11 Release date 4 February 2011 | |
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Recorded 2010, Redbull Music Academy studios and The Brownswood Basement Genres Trip hop, Grime, Alternative rock, Alternative hip hop Similar Grime albums, Other albums | ||
Ghostpoet s peanut butter blues melancholy jam album preview
Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam is the debut album of British singer and electronic producer Ghostpoet. It was released worldwide on 4 February 2011 on Gilles Peterson's label Brownswood Recordings. The album was shortlisted for the 2011 Mercury Prize, but lost to Let England Shake by PJ Harvey.
Contents
- Ghostpoet s peanut butter blues melancholy jam album preview
- Reception
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
The Instrumental from "Finished I Ain't" was used on the advert for 2011 Channel 4 drama Top Boy, which following residents of a housing estate in London and their turn to drug dealing and gang culture.
Reception
Upon its release, Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam received generally good reviews from music critics. The website Metacritic gives the album an aggregated score of 78/100 while, and as of July 2011, Amazon ranks it at 18 in their list of the top 50 most acclaimed albums of the year so far. Most reviews, both positive and negative, emphasized the engaging nature of the music; Zachary Houle of Pop Matters praised the sound for being "compelling in its own audacity." Adam Kennedy of the BBC stated that "rarely does a British debut album forge such a fully formed, genuinely unique direction", adding, that the album "throws its headgear into the ring as an early contender for 2011's finest out-of-leftfield long-players". Some reviews were more mixed, however; American magazine CMJ noted the challenging nature of the music, saying that the songs "barely step out of the realm of down-tempo trip hop genre pioneered by his countrymen Massive Attack," but added that, "Ghostpoet shows that he is close to mastering it."
Track listing
All songs written and produced by Ghostpoet.
Personnel
According to the album's liner notes:
Songs
1Onetwos0:40
2Run Run Run3:19
3Us Against Whatever Ever4:28