Fever Ray (album)
Encyclopedia
Fever Ray was lauded by music critics. At Metacritic
, which assigns a normalised
rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average
score of 81, based on 27 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". Graeme Thomson from The Observer
gave the album four out of five stars, describing it as "an astonishingly stark record" that is "[b]uilt on the barest of electronic bones and brought to life through Andersson's almost primal vocals, the songs search for a spiritual pulse amid soulless modernity." Ian Mathers from PopMatters
rated the album nine out of ten, stating that it is "not only as good as Silent Shout
but [it's also] clearly akin to the sound she and her brother Olof
perfected on that record", concluding that "[n]othing that Fever Ray does is as immediate or soaring as a track like 'Marble House
' but Fever Ray makes up for the lack of highs by being an even more all-enveloping experience than the last few Knife records." Similarly, John Doran of the NME
commented that it "has none of the immediacy of albums such as The Knife
's Silent Shout, with its playful eclecticism and heavier, dancefloor-leaning beats. Most importantly, it doesn't have a killer hit single in the style of 'Heartbeats'", while adding that in order to "fully appreciate this beautiful and understated gem, however, it's important to relinquish all desires for another 'Heartbeats' and enter fully into the world of Fever Ray." Doran also called the album "magnetic and rewarding" and compared it to the likes of Kate Bush
, Underworld
and Yellow Magic Orchestra
. Mark Pytlik from Pitchfork Media
argued that, in contrast to The Knife's "plasticky percussions and goofy synth sounds", Fever Ray "brims with fragile, more finely articulated sounds" and "moves at roughly the same pace and with the same general tone, rendering some of the songs indistinguishable at first, but committed listens will reveal this to be as nuanced and as rich of a production as anything either Dreijer has done."
The A.V. Club
s Chris Martins viewed it as being "countless times more claustrophobic and creepy than Silent Shout" and stated that "[t]he vocal transformer is such a huge part of what Andersson does—androgynizing her words to accompany the cold music, mimicking the synth warbles and sustained tones that abound." The Independent
critic Rupert Howe awarded the album five stars and remarked that "[e]ven beyond the gothic imagery and glacial electronics, this mesmeric solo project shares much with The Knife's last album Silent Shout", including "surreal lyrics" and "weird vocal treatments which pitch Andersson's voice down to a baleful masculine groan". Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine
believed that the album is "built upon contrasts. Most notably, Andersson's Fever Ray persona draws attention to her work as half of the Knife. [...] Whereas the Knife is ostensibly a dance act, Fever Ray emphasizes tone over rhythm." Alexander Tudor wrote for Drowned in Sound
that "minimal beats on each track prove to have been constructed with incredible attention to detail, as are the smooth synth washes, and electronic simulacra of birdcall or animal noises. The tempo may be nightmarishly unvaried, track after track, but it's composed of glitches [and] bouncing balls", naming "Keep the Streets Empty for Me" the album's best track. In a review for Allmusic, Heather Phares opined that "Fever Ray's mix of confessional lyrics and chilly, blatantly synthetic and often harsh sounds make this album as successful an electronic singer/songwriter album as Björk
's Homogenic
." Phares finalised her review stating, "With almost tangible textures and a striking mood of isolation and singularity, Fever Ray is a truly strange but riveting album." Alexis Petridis
from The Guardian
, giving Fever Ray five stars, noted that the album's "dolorous chords and stately rhythms recall the Cure
, circa Faith
, the glacial pace makes you think of the Blue Nile
." He further commented that "as unlikely a step as Fever Ray may seem for one of electronic music's most enigmatic figures, the results are triumphant." BBC Music
's Chris Jones called the album "bloody marvellous" and felt that "[t]here is a vague sense of holding pattern here rather than massive innovation. Without brother Olof as a guiding hand on the droning sequencers the tunes fall a bit by the wayside", but stated that "this very tiny drawback doesn't stop Fever Ray from being the kind of brilliant album that it may not make sense to play if you're prone to nightmares."
. The Sunday Times
critic Dan Cairns named it the third best album of 2009 by a new artist and added that Andersson "responded to motherhood with an album of glacial sonic architecture, its unforgiving expanses conjuring up sleep-deprived mental churning", calling it an "electro classic". NME, Drowned in Sound and Pitchfork Media all placed the album at number nine on their respective lists of the Top 50 Albums of 2009, with the latter's Patrick Sisson noting that "[w]hat's made Andersson's work even better is how her videos and performances amplify the music's sense of dread and mystery." The album made it to number sixteen on PopMatters' list of The Best 60 Albums of 2009, and the website's Adrien Begrand wrote, "Alternately chilly and warm, wistful and foreboding, expansive and claustrophobic, Fever Rays peculiarity and bleak magnificence holds us in its thrall." Online music service Rhapsody
listed Fever Ray at number twenty-two on its list of The 25 Best Albums of 2009. Slant Magazine deemed it the twenty-fourth best album of 2009; writer Jonathan Keefe stated that Andersson "challenges the conventions of dance music with her distorted vocals and macabre imagery" the album "emerges as an unsettling, impossible-to-shake record that suggests the aftermath of when 'pop' truly bursts". iTunes
US named Fever Ray the best electronic album of 2009 as part of the its Rewind 2009 roundup. It was included on Allmusic's Favorite Albums of 2009 and Favorite Electronic Albums of 2009 lists.
In 2010, Fever Ray won the P3 Guld award for Dance Artist of the Year, and was nominated for Newcomer of the Year and Pop Artist of the Year. The same year, she won a Manifestgalan for Best Live Artist and received a Beatport Music Award
nomination for Best Electronica Artist.
Metacritic
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, which assigns a normalised
Standard score
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rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average
Weighted mean
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score of 81, based on 27 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". Graeme Thomson from The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
gave the album four out of five stars, describing it as "an astonishingly stark record" that is "[b]uilt on the barest of electronic bones and brought to life through Andersson's almost primal vocals, the songs search for a spiritual pulse amid soulless modernity." Ian Mathers from PopMatters
PopMatters
PopMatters is an international webzine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater,...
rated the album nine out of ten, stating that it is "not only as good as Silent Shout
Silent Shout
Silent Shout is the third studio album by Swedish electronic duo The Knife. It was initially released in Sweden on 15 February 2006 by Rabid Records, and subsequently in the rest of Europe the following month and in the United States on 25 July by Mute Records. Silent Shout is darker than its...
but [it's also] clearly akin to the sound she and her brother Olof
Olof Dreijer
Olof Bjorn Dreijer is a member of the electronica duo The Knife, formed with his sister Karin Dreijer Andersson.Although The Knife very rarely performs live concerts, Olof performs as DJ Coolof in nightclubs across Europe....
perfected on that record", concluding that "[n]othing that Fever Ray does is as immediate or soaring as a track like 'Marble House
Marble House (song)
"Marble House" is the second single from The Knife's 2006 album Silent Shout. It was released in four different regions on four different labels. It features Swedish singer Jay-Jay Johanson. The music video was directed by Chris Hopewell...
' but Fever Ray makes up for the lack of highs by being an even more all-enveloping experience than the last few Knife records." Similarly, John Doran of the NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
commented that it "has none of the immediacy of albums such as The Knife
The Knife
The Knife are a Swedish electronic music duo from Gothenburg, formed in 1999. The group consists of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, who together also run their own record company, Rabid Records. They first received international attention after their song "Heartbeats", covered by...
's Silent Shout, with its playful eclecticism and heavier, dancefloor-leaning beats. Most importantly, it doesn't have a killer hit single in the style of 'Heartbeats'", while adding that in order to "fully appreciate this beautiful and understated gem, however, it's important to relinquish all desires for another 'Heartbeats' and enter fully into the world of Fever Ray." Doran also called the album "magnetic and rewarding" and compared it to the likes of Kate Bush
Kate Bush
Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart...
, Underworld
Underworld (band)
Underworld are a British electronic group, and principal name under which duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have recorded together since 1980.- Early years: 1979–1986 :...
and Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Sakamoto first worked with Hosono as a member of his live band in 1976, while Takahashi recruited Sakamoto to produce his debut solo recording in 1977 following the split of the Sadistic Mika Band...
. Mark Pytlik from Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
argued that, in contrast to The Knife's "plasticky percussions and goofy synth sounds", Fever Ray "brims with fragile, more finely articulated sounds" and "moves at roughly the same pace and with the same general tone, rendering some of the songs indistinguishable at first, but committed listens will reveal this to be as nuanced and as rich of a production as anything either Dreijer has done."
The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion. Its features include reviews of new films, music, television, books, games and DVDs, as well as interviews and other regular offerings examining both new and classic media and other elements of pop culture. Unlike its...
s Chris Martins viewed it as being "countless times more claustrophobic and creepy than Silent Shout" and stated that "[t]he vocal transformer is such a huge part of what Andersson does—androgynizing her words to accompany the cold music, mimicking the synth warbles and sustained tones that abound." The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
critic Rupert Howe awarded the album five stars and remarked that "[e]ven beyond the gothic imagery and glacial electronics, this mesmeric solo project shares much with The Knife's last album Silent Shout", including "surreal lyrics" and "weird vocal treatments which pitch Andersson's voice down to a baleful masculine groan". Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine is an online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians. The site covers various film festivals like the New York Film Festival.- History :...
believed that the album is "built upon contrasts. Most notably, Andersson's Fever Ray persona draws attention to her work as half of the Knife. [...] Whereas the Knife is ostensibly a dance act, Fever Ray emphasizes tone over rhythm." Alexander Tudor wrote for Drowned in Sound
Drowned in Sound
DrownedinSound.com or DiS is a UK based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway . The site is an editorially independent music website.-History:...
that "minimal beats on each track prove to have been constructed with incredible attention to detail, as are the smooth synth washes, and electronic simulacra of birdcall or animal noises. The tempo may be nightmarishly unvaried, track after track, but it's composed of glitches [and] bouncing balls", naming "Keep the Streets Empty for Me" the album's best track. In a review for Allmusic, Heather Phares opined that "Fever Ray's mix of confessional lyrics and chilly, blatantly synthetic and often harsh sounds make this album as successful an electronic singer/songwriter album as Björk
Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir , known as Björk , is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her eclectic musical style has achieved popular acknowledgement and popularity within many musical genres, such as rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical and folk...
's Homogenic
Homogenic
Homogenic is the fourth studio album by Icelandic musician Björk, released in September 1997. Produced by Björk, Mark Bell, Guy Sigsworth, Howie B and Markus Dravs, it was released on One Little Indian Records...
." Phares finalised her review stating, "With almost tangible textures and a striking mood of isolation and singularity, Fever Ray is a truly strange but riveting album." Alexis Petridis
Alexis Petridis
Alexis Petridis is a British journalist, head rock and pop critic for UK newspaper The Guardian, as well as a regular and contributor to the magazine GQ.Petridis began his career writing for Varsity whilst a student at the University of Cambridge...
from The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, giving Fever Ray five stars, noted that the album's "dolorous chords and stately rhythms recall the Cure
The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member...
, circa Faith
Faith (The Cure album)
Faith is the third album by British band The Cure, released in April 1981.- Overview :Faith is generally a brooding, atmospheric, and sombre album, although it has a flash of anger in the form of the song "Doubt", and some edge in the driving single "Primary"...
, the glacial pace makes you think of the Blue Nile
The Blue Nile
The Blue Nile is an adult alternative/pop band from Glasgow. The music of The Blue Nile is built heavily on synthesizers and electronic instrumentation and percussion, although later works featured acoustic guitar more prominently.-Early years:...
." He further commented that "as unlikely a step as Fever Ray may seem for one of electronic music's most enigmatic figures, the results are triumphant." BBC Music
BBC Music
BBC Music is a team working in the department of Audio and Music Interactive at the BBC. Responsible for the BBC Music website - the portal site to music content across the BBC website....
's Chris Jones called the album "bloody marvellous" and felt that "[t]here is a vague sense of holding pattern here rather than massive innovation. Without brother Olof as a guiding hand on the droning sequencers the tunes fall a bit by the wayside", but stated that "this very tiny drawback doesn't stop Fever Ray from being the kind of brilliant album that it may not make sense to play if you're prone to nightmares."
Accolades
Fever Ray was named the second best album of 2009 by The Guardian, with writer Rosie Swash calling it "[g]lacial, creepy and impish" and commenting that "[b]etween the cavernous synths, the echoes and loops, the polyrhythms and snarling vocal processing, Andersson managed to capture the feeling of being totally alone while also projecting a childlike wonder." It was ranked the second best album of 2009 and twenty-fourth best album of the 2000s decade by Resident AdvisorResident Advisor
Resident Advisor is an online electronic music magazine dedicated to the global dance music scene. The website won a People's Voice award in the 12th Annual Webby Awards in 2008.-Site History:...
. The Sunday Times
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critic Dan Cairns named it the third best album of 2009 by a new artist and added that Andersson "responded to motherhood with an album of glacial sonic architecture, its unforgiving expanses conjuring up sleep-deprived mental churning", calling it an "electro classic". NME, Drowned in Sound and Pitchfork Media all placed the album at number nine on their respective lists of the Top 50 Albums of 2009, with the latter's Patrick Sisson noting that "[w]hat's made Andersson's work even better is how her videos and performances amplify the music's sense of dread and mystery." The album made it to number sixteen on PopMatters' list of The Best 60 Albums of 2009, and the website's Adrien Begrand wrote, "Alternately chilly and warm, wistful and foreboding, expansive and claustrophobic, Fever Rays peculiarity and bleak magnificence holds us in its thrall." Online music service Rhapsody
Rhapsody (online music service)
Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version...
listed Fever Ray at number twenty-two on its list of The 25 Best Albums of 2009. Slant Magazine deemed it the twenty-fourth best album of 2009; writer Jonathan Keefe stated that Andersson "challenges the conventions of dance music with her distorted vocals and macabre imagery" the album "emerges as an unsettling, impossible-to-shake record that suggests the aftermath of when 'pop' truly bursts". iTunes
ITunes Store
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US named Fever Ray the best electronic album of 2009 as part of the its Rewind 2009 roundup. It was included on Allmusic's Favorite Albums of 2009 and Favorite Electronic Albums of 2009 lists.
In 2010, Fever Ray won the P3 Guld award for Dance Artist of the Year, and was nominated for Newcomer of the Year and Pop Artist of the Year. The same year, she won a Manifestgalan for Best Live Artist and received a Beatport Music Award
Beatport
Beatport is an online music store specializing in electronic dance music and culture. Beatport is a privately held company owned and operated by Beatport LLC and based in Denver, Colorado.-History:...
nomination for Best Electronica Artist.
Track listing
Deluxe edition
Personnel
- Fever Ray – vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, producerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
, engineerAudio engineeringAn audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
, mixingAudio mixing (recorded music)In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may... - Martin Ander – cover designAlbum coverAn album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to either the printed cardboard covers typically used to package sets of 10" and 12" 78 rpm records, single and sets of 12" LPs, sets of 45 rpm records , or the front-facing...
- Christoffer Berg – producer, engineer (tracks 1, 3–5, 9); mixing (all tracks)
- Henrik Jonsson – masteringAudio masteringMastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
- Hampus Lundgren – double bassDouble bassThe double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
(track 8) - Cecilia Nordlund – vocals (track 9)
- Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid – producer, engineer, mixing (2, 6–8, 10)
Charts
| Chart (2009–10) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
71 |
| Belgian Albums Chart Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995... (Flanders) |
11 |
| Danish Albums Chart IFPI Denmark IFPI Denmark is the Danish branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and is the official charts provider and recording sales certification body for Denmark.-Gold and platinum awards:... |
11 |
| Dutch Albums Chart MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top... |
80 |
| Finnish Albums Chart | 29 |
| Irish Albums Chart Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically... |
50 |
| Norwegian Albums Chart VG-lista VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by... |
9 |
| Swedish Albums Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association .... |
8 |
| UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
90 |
| US Dance/Electronic Albums | 8 |
| US Heatseekers Albums Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical... |
10 |
| US Independent Albums Independent Albums The Billboard Independent Albums is a chart of the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays in the United States, compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is used to list artists who are not signed to major labels... |
42 |
Release history
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| Australia | 12 January 2009 | Etcetc Etcetc Etcetc Records is an independent record label based in Sydney, Australia. Focusing on signing, developing, and distributing music from a small selection of career artists, etcetc is the home to alternative and electronic bands PNAU, Mission Control, Lost Valentinos and Jump Jump Dance Dance... |
Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
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| Germany | Cooperative Music V2 Records V2 Records is a record label that is owned by Universal Music Group as of October 2007. The label was founded in 1996 by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI.... |
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| Ireland | Rabid Records Rabid Records Rabid Records is a Swedish record label founded in 1998 by members of Honey Is Cool. Today the label is operated by Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer of the synthpop duo The Knife, as well as Frau Rabid. The label rarely releases anything other than works by The Knife, but it is currently... |
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| Japan | Hostess Entertainment Hostess Entertainment , DBA Unlimited, is a Japanese independent music company, representing some of the biggest Western alternative artists and labels in Japan, such as the Beggars Group , Domino Records, V2 Records and PIAS UK Distribution... |
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| Sweden | Rabid Records | |||
| United Kingdom | ||||
| United States | 13 January 2009 | Mute Records Mute Records Mute is an independent record label based in the UK. It was founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller and featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure and Fad Gadget.-Beginnings:... |
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| Sweden | 18 March 2009 | Rabid Records | CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , LP LP record The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry... |
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| Australia | 20 March 2009 | Etcetc | CD | |
| United States | 24 March 2009 | Mute Records | CD, LP | |
| Germany | 27 March 2009 | Cooperative Music | CD | |
| Ireland | Rabid Records | |||
| United Kingdom | 30 March 2009 | CD, LP | ||
| Japan | 27 May 2009 | Hostess Entertainment | CD | |
| Sweden | 14 October 2009 | Rabid Records | CD+DVD, digital download | Deluxe |
| United Kingdom | 19 October 2009 | |||
| Germany | 20 November 2009 | Cooperative Music | ||
| United States | 23 November 2009 | Mute Records |