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.[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

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?6.4/10[3]
Metacritic72/100[4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
The Austin Chronicle[6]
The A.V. ClubB[7]
Consequence of SoundB[8]
Los Angeles Times[9]
Paste7.8/10[10]
Pitchfork5.3/10[11]
PopMatters7/10[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

All tracks are written by Nick Urata and DeVotchKa.

100 Lovers track listing
No.TitleLength
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

  • DeVotchKa:
  • 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

Chart performance for 100 Lovers
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

  1. ^ "Devotchka - 100 Other Lovers". YouTube. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  2. ^ "Devotchka - All the Sand in All the Sea". YouTube. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  3. ^ a b "AnyDecentMusic? Review". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  5. ^ a b Christopher Monger, James. "100 Lovers at AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
  6. ^ a b Haupt, Melanie (March 18, 2011). "The Austin Chronicle Review". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  7. ^ O'Neal, Sean (March 1, 2011). "The A.V. Club Review". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  8. ^ Young, Alec (March 15, 2011). "Consequence of Sound Review". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  9. ^ a b Lewis, Randy (February 28, 2011). "LA Times Review". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  10. ^ a b LaBate, Steve (March 1, 2011). "Paste Magazine Review". Paste. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  11. ^ a b Bevan, David (March 10, 2011). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  12. ^ Cober-Lake, Justin (March 1, 2011). "PopMatters Review". PopMatters. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  13. ^ Cataldo, Jesse (February 28, 2011). "Slant Magazine Review". Slant Magazine. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  14. ^ RS, Nick. "Tiny Mix Tapes Review". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  15. ^ "DeVotchka Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  16. ^ "DeVotchka Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  17. ^ "DeVotchka Chart History (Top Alternative Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  18. ^ "DeVotchka Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  19. ^ "DeVotchka Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
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