Oh Land (album)

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Oh Land
File:Oh Land (album).png
Studio album by Oh Land
Released 14 March 2011 (2011-03-14)
Recorded
  • 2009–10; Mr. Dan's Streathem (United Kingdom)
  • Premier Recording Studio (New York City)
  • Secret Frequency Studio (Los Angeles)
Genre Electropop[1]
Length 39:53
Label
  • Fake Diamond
  • A:larm
Producer
Oh Land chronology
Fauna
(2008)Fauna2008		 Oh Land
(2011)		 Wish Bone
(2013)Wish Bone2013
Singles from Oh Land
  1. "Sun of a Gun"
    Released: 4 October 2010
  2. "Wolf & I"
    Released: 13 March 2011
  3. "Voodoo"
    Released: 3 April 2011
  4. "White Nights"
    Released: 22 May 2011
  5. "Speak Out Now"
    Released: 28 November 2011

Oh Land is the second studio album and major-label debut album by Danish recording artist Oh Land. It was released on 14 March 2011 by Fake Diamond Records and A:larm Music. An extended play with the same name was released in advance on 19 October 2010, containing four tracks from the full-length album.[2]

"Sun of a Gun" was released as the album's lead single on 4 October 2010.[3] "Wolf & I", "Voodoo" and "White Nights" were released as singles on 13 March, 3 April and 22 May 2011, respectively.[4][5][6] A deluxe edition of the album was released in Denmark on 5 December 2011, including the single "Speak Out Now", which was released on 28 November 2011.[7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 62/100[8]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars[1]
BBC Music mixed[9]
Berlingske 5/6 stars[10]
Billboard positive[11]
Drowned in Sound 5/10[12]
Ekstra Bladet 5/6 stars[13]
Gaffa 5/6 stars[14]
Politiken 4/6 stars[15]
Slant Magazine 3.5/5 stars[16]
Spin 7/10[17]

Oh Land received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 62, based on seven reviews.[8] Barry Walters of Spin wrote, "This stunning Dane's synths-plus-strings slant on singer-songwriter lovesickness offers refinement over innovation, yet Nanna Øland Fabricius beguiles with a gently insistent presence."[17] Kerri Mason of Billboard opined that Oh Land "might have made the year's first great left-field pop album", praising the songs as "endlessly catchy" and concluding that "the tilting scales of light and dark give the collection a definite creep factor and a clever complexity."[11] AllMusic's Andrew Leahey described the album as an "'anything goes' mix of club, dance, and nocturnal electro-pop", adding that Oh Land "doesn't rewrite the rule book as much as join the ranks of La Roux, Little Boots, and Janelle Monáe. But that doesn't keep her debut album from churning out a number of intelligent club anthems".[1]

In a mixed review, Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani expressed that Oh Land's "cinematic arrangements bring Janelle Monáe's ambitious approach to pop music to mind, but tracks like 'Wolf & I' and 'Lean' draw a bit too heavily from the trip-hop playbook [...] and, however well-excecuted [sic] they may be, end up sounding derivative."[16] Similarly, Fraser McAlpine of BBC Music felt that "there's a bit of an identity void at the heart of the thing, a lack of personality. It might just be that Oh Land is more skilled at getting songs to sound current than she is at expressing herself."[9] Drowned in Sound's John Calvert called the album "hip, diverse and always vibrant", but also branded it "pretty forgettable". Calvert pointed out the production work of Dave McCracken and Dan Carey, noting the album "inhabits a tepid middle ground between the two extremes—offering neither gilded Scandi chart-pop (Robyn, Annie) or the artistic mettle of Scandi indie bands, most of whom are able to turn out sublime pop anyway."[12]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Producer Length
1. "Perfection"  
Carey 4:59
2. "Break the Chain"  
McCracken 3:17
3. "Sun of a Gun"  
McCracken 3:25
4. "Voodoo"  
  • Fabricius
  • Carey
 Carey 2:51
5. "Lean"  
  • Fabricius
  • Carey
 Carey 3:28
6. "Wolf & I"  
  • Fabricius
  • Owen Beverly
 Carey 4:37
7. "Human"  
Carey 4:08
8. "White Nights"  
  • Fabricius
  • McCracken
 McCracken 3:45
9. "Helicopter"  
Mendez 3:31
10. "We Turn It Up"  
McCracken 2:31
11. "Rainbow"  
  • Fabricius
  • McCracken
 McCracken 3:21

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Oh Land.[22]

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[29] Platinum 20,000

^shipments figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Edition Label Ref.
Denmark 14 March 2011
Standard
  • Fake Diamond
  • A:larm
 [30][31]
United States 15 March 2011
  • CD
  • digital download
 Epic [18][32]
Canada Digital download Sony [33]
24 May 2011 CD [34]
France 6 June 2011 [35]
13 June 2011 Digital download [19]
Poland CD [36]
United Kingdom Digital download Epic [37]
Germany 5 August 2011
  • CD
  • digital download
 Sony [38][39]
Italy 25 October 2011 [40][41]
United Kingdom 21 November 2011 CD RCA [42]
Denmark 5 December 2011
  • CD
  • digital download
 Deluxe
  • Fake Diamond
  • A:larm
 [20][21]

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