The Entire City Explained

The Entire City
Type:studio
Artist:Gazelle Twin
Cover:Gazelle Twin - The Entire City cover art.png
Recorded:2009–2011
Genre:
Label:Anti-Ghost Moon Ray
Producer:Gazelle Twin
Next Title:Unflesh
Next Year:2014

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.

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".[2]

Critical reception

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". Simon Price wrote the record "will haunt you long after listening", in his review for The Independent on Sunday.[3] 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." 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."

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Entire City.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 'Pastoral' Sees Gazelle Twin Perform a Sardonic Reconfiguration of Avant-pop. PopMatters. 17 September 2018. Stasis. Spyros. 31 January 2019.
  2. Web site: Distortions of the Past: An Interview with Gazelle Twin . Stasis . Spyros . . 21 September 2018 . 9 March 2019.
  3. Web site: Price, Simon. Simon Price. 3 July 2011. Album: Gazelle Twin, The Entire City (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray). https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-gazelle-twin-the-entire-city-antighost-moon-ray-2305818.html . 18 June 2022 . subscription . live. The Independent on Sunday. Independent Print Limited. 8 November 2014.
  4. The Entire City . CD liner notes . . Anti-Ghost Moon Ray . 2011. AGMR0003.