Giraffe (album)

Giraffe
Studio album by Echoboy
Released February 10, 2003 (2003-02-10) (UK)
Genre Electropop
Length 50:43
Label Mute Records
Producer Flood
Echoboy chronology
Volume Two
(2000)
Giraffe
(2002)
Elektrik Soul Psymphonie
(2005)

Giraffe is the third full-length album by British musician Richard Warren, released under his pseudonym, Echoboy. It was released on February 10, 2003 on Mute Records in the United Kingdom and on February 25 of that year in the United States.[1] It was produced by Flood.[2]

Critical reception

Although Giraffe received generally favorable reviews from critics,[3] not all reviews were favorable. Michael Idov of Pitchfork Media awarded the album a rating of 4.7 out of 10, describing the album as "50 minutes of structured wankery, as performed by a lone Brit with the questionable talent to put a chorus to a verse..."[4]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(71%)[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
Pitchfork Media(4.7/10)[4]
Stylus Magazine(C+)[6]
Exclaim!(favorable)[2]
PopMatters(mixed)[1]
MusicOMH(favorable)[7]
Robert Christgau[8]

Track listing

  1. Automatic Eyes
  2. Don't Destroy Me
  3. Comfort of the Hum
  4. Summer Rhythm
  5. High Speed in Love
  6. Fun in You
  7. Lately Lonely
  8. Good on T.V.
  9. Wasted Spaces
  10. Nearly All the Time

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Begrand, Adrian (26 March 2003). "Echoboy: Giraffe". PopMatters. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 Ostroff, Joshua (March 2003). "Giraffe Review". Exclaim!. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Giraffe". Metacritic. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  4. 1 2 Idov, Michael (24 June 2003). "Giraffe". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  5. Phares, Heather. "Giraffe Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  6. Lindsay, Cam (1 September 2003). "Giraffe Review". Stylus. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  7. Murphy, John (10 February 2003). "Echoboy – Giraffe". MusicOMH. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  8. Christgau, Robert (2003). "Echoboy". Retrieved 12 December 2014.
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