The Entire City

The Entire City is the debut studio album by English electronic music project Gazelle Twin of composer, producer and musician Elizabeth Bernholz. It was released on 11 July 2011 by Anti-Ghost Moon Ray Records.

The Entire City
Studio album by
Gazelle Twin
Released11 July 2011 (2011-07-11)[1]
Recorded2009–2011
Genre
Length44:57
LabelAnti-Ghost Moon Ray
ProducerGazelle Twin
Gazelle Twin chronology
The Entire City
(2011)		 Unflesh
(2014)
Singles from The Entire City
  1. "Challengings"
    Released: 10 November 2010
  2. "I Am Shell I Am Bone"
    Released: 25 April 2011
  3. "Men Like Gods"
    Released: 4 July 2011

Background

The album was the first one that Bernholz produced. She used Ableton 7 to create it. The artist describes The Entire City as her "landscape album". She further explains that she was "illustrating places and times and alien landscapes, but warped memories too".[5]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.9/10[6]
Review scores
SourceRating
Drowned in Sound8/10[1]
Financial Times[7]
The Guardian[2]
musicOMH[8]
NME8/10[3]

The Entire City garnered critical acclaim upon release. Charlotte Richardson Andrews of The Guardian gave the album a five-star review, calling it a "stunning debut".[2] Simon Price wrote the record "will haunt you long after listening", in his review for The Independent on Sunday.[9] Jazz Monroe, writing for Drowned in Sound, gave it an eight out of ten, opining that "The Entire City - while slippery as a fish out of water, by all accounts - is crystal clear of ambition and concept."[1] He also did another review for NME, giving it a similar score and calling it a "triumph of art-pop splendour – equal parts terror and temerity."[3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Gazelle Twin.

No.TitleLength
1."The Entire City"2:23
2."Concrete Mother"4:43
3."Men Like Gods"4:55
4."I Am Shell I Am Bone"4:43
5."Far from Home"1:22
6."Changelings"3:22
7."Bell Tower"2:32
8."When I Was Otherwise"3:50
9."Obelisk"5:11
10."Nest"4:15
11."Fight-or-Flight"1:00
12."View of a Mountain"3:39
13."Abandon"3:02

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Entire City.[10]

  • Gazelle Twin – composition, recording, production, lyrics
  • Shawn Joseph – mastering (tracks 1–5, 7–13)
  • Russ Keffert – mastering (track 6)
  • Suzanne Moxhay – artwork
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References
  1. Monroe, Jazz (6 July 2011). "Album Review: Gazelle Twin - The Entire City". Drowned in Sound. Silentway. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  2. Richardson Andrews, Charlotte (14 July 2011). "Gazelle Twin: The Entire City – review". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  3. Monroe, Jazz (12 July 2011). "Album Review: Gazelle Twin - 'The Entire City'". NME. Inspire. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  4. Stasis, Spyros (17 September 2018). "'Pastoral' Sees Gazelle Twin Perform a Sardonic Reconfiguration of Avant-pop". PopMatters. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  5. Stasis, Spyros (21 September 2018). "Distortions of the Past: An Interview with Gazelle Twin". PopMatters. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  6. "The Entire City by Gazelle Twin reviews".
  7. Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic (2 July 2011). "Gazelle Twin: The Entire City". Financial Times. Pearson PLC. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  8. Welsh, David (15 August 2011). "Gazelle Twin – The Entire City". musicOMH. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  9. Price, Simon (3 July 2011). "Album: Gazelle Twin, The Entire City (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray)". The Independent on Sunday. Independent Print Limited. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  10. The Entire City (CD liner notes). Gazelle Twin. Anti-Ghost Moon Ray. 2011. AGMR0003.CS1 maint: others (link)
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