Lament (Touché Amoré album) explained

Lament
Type:	studio
Artist:	Touché Amoré
Cover:	Touché Amoré - Lament.png
Genre:	Post-hardcore^[1]
Label:	Epitaph
Producer:	Ross Robinson
Prev Title:	Stage Four
Prev Year:	2016
Next Title:	Spiral in a Straight Line
Next Year:	2024

Lament is the fifth studio album by American post-hardcore band Touché Amoré. The album was released on October 9, 2020 through Epitaph Records. Recording sessions took place at the Bunker Studio in Brooklyn featuring Andy Hull's additional vocals recorded at Favorite Gentlemen Studios in Alpharetta, Georgia. It is their first album to be produced by Ross Robinson.

On October 1, 2021 the band released Lament (Demos), an album of demos of songs that would appear on Lament, as well as an unreleased song Persist.

Critical reception

Lament was met with universal acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 83 based on nine reviews. The aggregator AnyDecentMusic? has the critical consensus of the album at a 8.1 out of 10, based on fourteen reviews. The aggregator Album of the Year assessed the critical consensus as 78 out of 100, based on fifteen reviews.^[2]

Accolades

Accolades for Lament

Publication	Accolade	Rank
Metal Hammer	The 50 Best Metal Albums of 2020	21	^[3]
Stereogum	The 50 Best Albums of 2020

Personnel

Touché Amoré

• Jeremy Bolm – vocals
• Clayton Stevens – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar
• Nick Steinhardt – electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, art direction, design
• Elliot Babin – drums, keyboards, piano
• Tyler Kirby – bass, additional guitar

Guest musicians

• Justice Tripp – backing vocals (track 1)
• Julien Baker – backing vocals (track 4)
• John Andrew Hull – additional vocals (track 5)
• Ross Robinson – keyboards (tracks: 2, 6, 9), producer, additional engineering
• Jason Schimmel – keyboards (tracks: 3, 7), piano (tracks: 5, 8), additional engineering

Technical

• Mike Balboa – engineering
• Steve Evetts – mixing
• Robert McDowell – additional recording (track 5)
• Alan Douches – mastering
• George L Clarke – photography

Management

• Alex Merchant – management
• Blaze James – management
• Paul Sommerstein – legal
• Josh Javor – booking
• Merrick Jarmulowicz – booking
• Steve Strange – booking

Notes and References

1. Web site: Touché Amoré: Lament . .
2. Web site: Touché Amoré – Lament. October 22, 2020. Album of the Year. en-US.
3. Web site: The 50 best metal albums of 2020 . . . March 12, 2021 . January 8, 2020.