Are You Alone?

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Are You Alone?
Are You Alone (Front Cover).png
Studio album by Majical Cloudz
Released October 16, 2015
Genre
Length 43:32
Label Matador
Majical Cloudz chronology
Impersonator
(2013)Impersonator2013		 Are You Alone?
(2015)		 Wait & See
(2016)Wait & See2016
Singles from Are You Alone?
  1. "Silver Car Crash"
    Released: August 12, 2015
  2. "Are You Alone?"
    Released: September 21, 2015
  3. "Downtown"
    Released: October 7, 2015

Are You Alone? is the fourth and final studio album from Canadian pop duo Majical Cloudz, released on October 16, 2015 on Matador Records.[6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 80/100[7]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars[8]
Consequence of Sound B+[9]
Drowned in Sound 8/10[10]
Exclaim! 8/10[11]
The Guardian 4/5 stars[12]
Pitchfork 8.0/10[13]
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars[3]
Spin 8/10[2]

Are You Alone? received largely positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 18 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[7]

Mike Powell of Pitchfork Media gave the album a positive review, stating, "Like Impersonator, Alone is a sad album, but its sadness is a kind of tall tale, the details of which are overblown for dramatic effect. At times its lyrics sound less like expressions of personal darkness than advertisements for darkness in general, written in lettering so big you could read it from the highway." Powell continues, "Alone is less stripped-down than Impersonator, but it feels less confrontational, too. The band recently went on tour opening for Lorde, and seem to have figured out how to broaden their sound while softening it at the same time, all without losing the detonating high that made Impersonator so remarkable. Songs like "So Blue" and "Downtown"—both standouts—are easy to imagine as more fully fleshed out pieces of music, conveying size without occupying space. Like photographic negatives, you can still see the image but the inversion of blacks and whites lends it a kind of alien melancholy."[13]

Accolades

Publication Accolade Year Rank
Consequence of Sound Top 50 Albums of 2015 2015
47[14]
Paste The 50 Best Albums of 2015 2015
43[15]
PopMatters The 80 Best Albums of 2015 2015
43[16]
Spin The 50 Best Albums of 2015 2015
48[17]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Devon Welsh. 

No. Title Length
1. "Disappeared"   3:45
2. "Control"   3:21
3. "Are You Alone?"   3:50
4. "So Blue"   3:49
5. "Heavy"   3:29
6. "Silver Car Crash"   3:30
7. "Change"   4:06
8. "If You're Lonely"   3:40
9. "Downtown"   4:09
10. "Easier Said than Done"   2:47
11. "Game Show"   3:19
12. "Call on Me"   3:47
Total length:
 43:32

Personnel

Main personnel
  • Devon Welsh – composer
  • Matthew Otto – composer, mixing
  • Owen Pallett – cello, drums, violin (4)
  • Austin Milne – saxophone (1)
  • Kenneth Welsh – flute (5, 7)
Additional personnel
  • Tyler Crawford – mixing
  • Tyler Fitzmaurice – mixing
  • Ryan Morey – mastering

References

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  12. ↑ Hutchinson, Kate. Majical Cloudz: Are You Alone? review – surreal and beguiling pop. The Guardian. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 09 March 2016.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Powell, Mike. Majical Cloudz: Are You Alone?. Pitchfork Media. 13 October 2015. Retrieved 09 March 2016.
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