Electronic Earth

Electronic Earth is the debut album of British grime and R & B singer Labrinth. It was first published on 30 March 2012 on iTunes under the label Syco and could reach the charts in Australia, Ireland, Scotland and the UK. So far, four singles were released from the album, Let the Sun Shine, Earthquake, Last Time and Express Yourself. The album was produced by Labrinth and Da Digglar.

Background

The three, before the album was released, from the album release singles, Earthquake, Last Time and Let the Sun Shine, all were able to reach the Top 5 on the British charts, which is why critics on the album had high demands. The name and release date of the album, however, were given up already on December 11, 2011 by Labrinth on Twitter. There are also 19 March was named as release date, the album was released on 30 March after Labrinth on 8 February 2012 in advance posted the album cover on Facebook. Also a Deluxe version (also Deluxe Edition, no difference ) was published. It contains 15 tracks, including several remixes.

Formation

The album was recorded over one and a half years in the MILMARK Studios in London. Furthermore, the album contains guest contributions from Tinie Tempah and Emeli Sandé, the deluxe version also contains appearances by Busta Rhymes, Tinchy Stryder, Devlin, Wretch 32 and Kano, as well as remixes by Joey Negro, the Wideboys, Knife Party and R3hab. Songwriters were in the gallery, among others Marc Williams, Marc Roberts, Joni Mitchell, Mike Posner, Tinie Tempah, Rami Yacoub, Carl Falk and Emeli Sandé. The album was produced by McKenzie himself and Da Digglar. After the album was released to Labrinth expressed on this compared to Blues & Soul:

" Basically ' Electronic Earth ' as a title Represents musically where I'm heading to as an artist. In did I want to be able to make Both acoustic and electronic music side- by-side. You know, on one side you have artists like Adele who's very much on to acoustic vibe, and then on the other you have like maybe Justice who are a kind of electro - house band. "

And continued:

" And to me, what I'm about as a musician is joining Those two worlds TOGETHER ... So yeah, in that way ' Electronic Earth ' does truly represent me as Both an artist AND a producer. "

Title list

Reception

Criticism

The album received mixed review. There were some positive opinions, like, who wrote Robert Leedham Drowned In Sound:

" In the end, Electronic Earth comes off more as a greatest hits collection than an album proper but that's no bad thing. It just goes to show Labrinth Has plenty of room left with Which to stretch his wings. By the sounds of this, he's only just getting started. "

And the album 70 out of 100 possible points was while gave a rather negative review Ben Cardew of NME:

" Labrinth june work wonders in the background, but he's far too anonymous on ' Electronic Earth ' to mark his card as much of a solo star. "

And the album 4 out of 10 possible points evaluated.

Even Alexander Riede of generation- one.de gave the album five out of six stars and said the album "[... ] the British HipHop / Electro Act Labrinth sees itself not only in the balancing act of the two genres, but also proves beyond with popular orientation a fine singing voice. In this album some dormant in potential. "

The calculated by Metacritic average of 55 out of 100 possible points.

Chart success

Album

The charts could reach the album in Australia, Ireland, Scotland and Great Britain. The most successful it was in Britain, where it came to number two on the charts. # 23 in Ireland, number six in Scotland, and number 38 in Australia are the other placements.

Singles

→ Main article: Last Time, Earthquake, Express Yourself and Let the Sun Shine

The release of the album singles have all reached the charts in the UK, Ireland and Scotland. The UK R & B charts he could reach by all except Let the Sun Shine. The Official UK Top 100 chart streaming could be achieved with load time and Earthquake. The most successful single from the album is Earthquake, which could achieve a position in a total of twelve different charts.