100 Lovers
Studio album by
DeVotchKa
ReleasedFebruary 28, 2011 (2011-02-28)
StudioWavelab Studio, Tucson, Arizona
NFA, Denver, Colorado
GenreIndie folk, Gypsy punk
Length44:38
LabelAnti-
Producer
  • Craig Schumacher
  • DeVotchKa
DeVotchKa chronology
I Love You, Philip Morris
(2009)		 100 Lovers
(2011)		 This Night Falls Forever
(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.[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. 1 2 "AnyDecentMusic? Review". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  5. 1 2 Christopher Monger, James. "100 Lovers at AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
  6. 1 2 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. 1 2 Lewis, Randy (February 28, 2011). "LA Times Review". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  10. 1 2 LaBate, Steve (March 1, 2011). "Paste Magazine Review". Paste. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  11. 1 2 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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