Reality Testing (album)
| Reality Testing | ||||
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| Studio album by Lone | ||||
| Released | 16 June 2014 | |||
| Genre | Electronic, instrumental hip hop, house | |||
| Label | R&S | |||
| Producer | Matt Cutler | |||
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Reality Testing is the sixth album by English electronic musician Lone. It was released in the United Kingdom on 16 June 2014 by R&S Records.[1]
Style
A review in Pitchfork referred to the album as "Largely abandoning rave’s warp-speed tempos and sensual overload" of Galaxy Garden.[2] Reality Testing focuses on "dusty hip-hop grooves of auteurs like J Dilla and Madlib".[2]
Release
The album was released on R&S Records on June 16, 2014 on vinyl record and compact disc.[1]
Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 81/100[3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.0/10.0[2] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 81, based on 17 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[3]
Pitchfork gave the album an 8.0 out of 10, stating that "Reality Testing is Cutler’s easiest listen—you can imagine this music playing over coffee shop speakers as much as you could put a rapper on top of it—and as such it may seem less innovative when placed up against his previous two full-lengths."[2]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "First Born Seconds" | 1:55 |
| 2. | "Restless City" | 4:37 |
| 3. | "Meeker Warm Energy" | 4:00 |
| 4. | "Aurora Northern Quarter" | 4:04 |
| 5. | "2 Is 8" | 3:43 |
| 6. | "Airglow Fires" | 6:02 |
| 7. | "Coincidences" | 3:35 |
| 8. | "Begin To Begin" | 5:35 |
| 9. | "Jaded" | 4:49 |
| 10. | "Vengeance Video" | 5:19 |
| 11. | "Stuck" | 2:39 |
| 12. | "Cutched Under" | 6:10 |
Personnel
- Matt Cutler – composer, producer
- Konx-om-Pax – artwork
- Noel Summerville – mastering
Notes
- 1 2 "Lone — Reality Testing". R&S Records. 16 June 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 Fitzmaurice, Larry (June 19, 2014). "Lone: Reality Testing". Pitchfork. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
- 1 2 "Reality testing Reviews - Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved July 9, 2014.