| Rare Birds | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Jonathan Wilson |
| Cover: | Rare Birds Album Cover.png |
| Studio: | Five Star Studios |
| Length: | 78:44 |
| Label: | Bella Union |
| Producer: | Jonathan Wilson |
| Prev Title: | Slide By |
| Prev Year: | 2014 |
| Next Title: | Dixie Blur |
| Next Year: | 2020 |
Rare Birds is the third studio album by American musician and producer Jonathan Wilson. It was released on March 2, 2018 under Bella Union.[1]
The album was self-produced by Wilson at his Five Star Studios, with Jeffertitti Moon ; in Echo Park, Los Angeles.[1] [2]
On December 5, 2017, Jonathan Wilson revealed the new album to be released on Bella Union on March 2, 2018. The album has appearances by Lana Del Rey, Laraaji and Father John Misty.[1] The first single to be released from the album, "Over The Midnight" is directed by Andrea Nakhla.[2]
Rare Birds 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 74, based on 13 reviews. Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 74 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 12 reviews.[3]
Thom Jurek from AllMusic explained that the album "is dizzying in ambition and (mostly) dazzling in execution. It offers hours of enjoyment to anyone who takes it on. It's sprawling at nearly 80 minutes, and lavishly packaged.". Andy Gill from The Independent stated: "The lush opacity becomes claustrophobic over his eighty-minute default track length: though frequently sweet and beautiful, one’s ultimately left like Heliogabalus, drowned in rose petals.".
| Publication | Accolade | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glide Magazine | Glide Magazines Top 20 Albums of 2018 | ||
| OOR | OORs Top 20 Albums of 2018 | ||
| Uproxx | Uproxx Top 50 Albums of 2018 – Mid-Year |
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