100 Lovers is the sixth studio album by American indie folk band DeVotchKa. It was released by Anti- Records on February 28, 2011.
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| Released | February 28, 2011 | |||
| Studio | Wavelab Studio, Tucson, Arizona NFA, Denver, Colorado | |||
| Genre | Indie folk, Gypsy punk | |||
| Length | 44:38 | |||
| Label | Anti- | |||
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Release
editThe first music video "100 Other Lovers" was released on February 3, 2011, and directed by Chloe Rodham.[1]
Devotchka released the music video to "All the Sand in All the Sea" on their official YouTube on February 15, 2011.[2]
Critical reception
edit| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 6.4/10[3] |
| Metacritic | 72/100[4] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [5] |
| The Austin Chronicle | [6] |
| The A.V. Club | B[7] |
| Consequence of Sound | B[8] |
| Los Angeles Times | [9] |
| Paste | 7.8/10[10] |
| Pitchfork | 5.3/10[11] |
| PopMatters | 7/10[12] |
| Slant Magazine | [13] |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | [14] |
100 Lovers was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 72 based on 18 reviews.[4] At AnyDecentMusic?, the album was given a 6.4 out of 10 based on a critical consensus 17 reviews.[3]
The AllMusic review by James Christopher Monger awarded the album 3.5 stars stating "It's a melting pot to be sure, and the band has a tendency to go heavy on the atmosphere and light on the hooks, but there’s never any doubt that it’s a brew tended over by some awfully talented cooks."[5] At Pitchfork, David Bevan wrote: "100 Lovers, with its interludes, clever sequencing, and the appropriately titled instrumental "Sunshine", feels less like a grouping of songs as it does an entirely different animal altogether."[11] Melanie Haupt of The Austin Chronicle gave a four out of five stars, describing the instrumentation on the album "more lushly realized than ever."[6] At Los Angeles Times, writer Randy Lewis explained: "DeVotchKa creates music that explodes with the desperate passion of someone standing at the end of a pier, or lost in the middle of a desert."[9]
In a review for Paste, critic reviewer Steve LaBate wrote: "DeVotchKa's fifth studio LP, 100 Lovers, begins with a gorgeously moody and cinematic wash of synths, strings and piano seeping forth as if water through a crack in a dam. From beneath this swirl of sound, a steady-marching drumbeat subtly emerges, pressure building slowly at first but then more and more rapidly until, finally, the wall holding back the floodwaters bursts in a majestic symphonic crescendo."[10]
Track listing
editAll tracks are written by Nick Urata and DeVotchKa.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "The Alley" | 5:04 |
| 2. | "All the Sand in All the Seas" | 4:50 |
| 3. | "100 Other Lovers" | 4:11 |
| 4. | "The Common Good" | 4:26 |
| 5. | "Interlude 1" | 0:40 |
| 6. | "The Man from San Sebastian" | 3:44 |
| 7. | "Exhaustible" | 3:30 |
| 8. | "Interlude 2" | 0:23 |
| 9. | "Bad Luck Heels" | 4:15 |
| 10. | "Ruthless" | 4:48 |
| 11. | "Contrabanda" | 3:54 |
| 12. | "Sunshine" | 4:55 |
Personnel
edit- DeVotchKa:
- Vocals, guitar: Nick Urata
- Sousaphone: Jeanie Schroder
- Drums: Shawn King
- Piano: Thomas Hagerman
- Strings:
- Violin 1: Regan Kane
- Violin 2: Takanori Sugishita
- Violin 3: Ilya Goldberg
- Viola 1: Summer Rhodes
- Viola 2: Lisa Jablonowski
- Cello 1: Charles Lee
- Cello 2: Eleanor Wells
- Wind
- Bandoneon: Evan Orman
- Tenor/Baritone Saxophone: Dan Sjogren
- Trumpets
- Chris Barron
- Derek Banach
- Jacob Valenzuela
- Percussion
- Mauro Refosco
Charts
edit| Chart (2011) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Billboard 200[15] | 70 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard)[16] | 9 |
| US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[17] | 12 |
| US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[18] | 17 |
| US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[19] | 6 |
References
edit- ^ "Devotchka - 100 Other Lovers". YouTube. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ "Devotchka - All the Sand in All the Sea". YouTube. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ a b "AnyDecentMusic? Review". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
- ^ a b "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ a b Christopher Monger, James. "100 Lovers at AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
- ^ a b Haupt, Melanie (March 18, 2011). "The Austin Chronicle Review". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ O'Neal, Sean (March 1, 2011). "The A.V. Club Review". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ Young, Alec (March 15, 2011). "Consequence of Sound Review". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ a b Lewis, Randy (February 28, 2011). "LA Times Review". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ a b LaBate, Steve (March 1, 2011). "Paste Magazine Review". Paste. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ a b Bevan, David (March 10, 2011). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ Cober-Lake, Justin (March 1, 2011). "PopMatters Review". PopMatters. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ Cataldo, Jesse (February 28, 2011). "Slant Magazine Review". Slant Magazine. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ RS, Nick. "Tiny Mix Tapes Review". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ "DeVotchka Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ "DeVotchka Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
- ^ "DeVotchka Chart History (Top Alternative Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
- ^ "DeVotchka Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ "DeVotchka Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 5, 2021.