100 Lovers
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::data[format=table title="Infobox album"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 100 Lovers |
| type | studio |
| artist | DeVotchKa |
| cover | 100 Lovers (DeVotchKa album - cover art).jpg |
| released | |
| studio | Wavelab Studio, Tucson, Arizona |
| NFA, Denver, Colorado | |
| genre | Indie folk, gypsy punk |
| length | 44:38 |
| label | Anti- |
| prev_title | I Love You, Philip Morris |
| prev_year | 2009 |
| next_title | This Night Falls Forever |
| next_year | 2018 |
| :: |
| name = 100 Lovers | type = studio | artist = DeVotchKa | cover = 100 Lovers (DeVotchKa album - cover art).jpg | alt = | released = | recorded = | studio = Wavelab Studio, Tucson, Arizona NFA, Denver, Colorado | genre = Indie folk, gypsy punk | length = 44:38 | label = Anti- | producer =
- Craig Schumacher
- DeVotchKa | prev_title = I Love You, Philip Morris | prev_year = 2009 | next_title = This Night Falls Forever | next_year = 2018
100 Lovers is the sixth studio album by American indie folk band DeVotchKa. It was released by Anti- Records on February 28, 2011.
Release
The first music video "100 Other Lovers" was released on February 3, 2011, and directed by Chloe Rodham.
Devotchka released the music video to "All the Sand in All the Sea" on their official YouTube on February 15, 2011.
Critical reception
| ADM = 6.4/10 | MC = 72/100 | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = | rev2 = The Austin Chronicle | rev2score = | rev3 = The A.V. Club | rev3score = B | rev4 = Consequence of Sound | rev4score = B | rev5 = Los Angeles Times | rev5score = | rev6 = Paste | rev6score = 7.8/10 | rev7 = Pitchfork | rev7score = 5.3/10 | rev8 = PopMatters | rev8score = 7/10 | rev9 = Slant Magazine | rev9score = | rev10 = Tiny Mix Tapes | rev10score = 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. At AnyDecentMusic?, the album was given a 6.4 out of 10 based on a critical consensus 17 reviews.
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." 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." Melanie Haupt of The Austin Chronicle gave a four out of five stars, describing the instrumentation on the album "more lushly realized than ever." 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."
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."
Track listing
|headline=100 Lovers track listing |all_writing=Nick Urata and DeVotchKa. |title1=The Alley |length1=5:04 |title2=All the Sand in All the Seas |length2=4:50 |title3=100 Other Lovers |length3=4:11 |title4=The Common Good |length4=4:26 |title5=Interlude 1 |length5=0:40 |title6=The Man from San Sebastian |length6=3:44 |title7=Exhaustible |length7=3:30 |title8=Interlude 2 |length8=0:23 |title9=Bad Luck Heels |length9=4:15 |title10=Ruthless |length10=4:48 |title11=Contrabanda |length11=3:54 |title12=Sunshine |length12=4:55
Personnel
- 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
::data[format=table title="Chart performance for ''100 Lovers''"] | Chart (2011) | Peak position | |---|---| ::
References
References
- "AnyDecentMusic? Review". AnyDecentMusic?.
- Christopher Monger, James. "''100 Lovers'' at AllMusic". [[AllMusic]].
- Haupt, Melanie. (March 18, 2011). "The Austin Chronicle Review". [[The Austin Chronicle]].
- O'Neal, Sean. (March 1, 2011). "The A.V. Club Review".
- Young, Alec. (March 15, 2011). "Consequence of Sound Review".
- Lewis, Randy. (February 28, 2011). "LA Times Review". [[Los Angeles Times]].
- "Metacritic Review". [[Metacritic]].
- LaBate, Steve. (March 1, 2011). "Paste Magazine Review". [[Paste (magazine).
- Bevan, David. (March 10, 2011). "Pitchfork Review".
- Cober-Lake, Justin. (March 1, 2011). "PopMatters Review".
- Cataldo, Jesse. (February 28, 2011). "Slant Magazine Review". [[Slant Magazine]].
- RS, Nick. "Tiny Mix Tapes Review".
- "Devotchka - 100 Other Lovers". [[YouTube]].
- "Devotchka - All the Sand in All the Sea". [[YouTube]].
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