Death Peak is the eighth studio album by British electronic musician Chris Clark and the sixth one under the moniker Clark. Announced on 17 February 2017, it was released on 7 April 2017 by Warp Records.[1] Upon its announcement its first single, "Peak Magnetic", was released freely for streaming on SoundCloud.[2] The design of the album cover is that of a crumpled photograph of Clark himself, produced by photographer Alma Haser.[3]
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 78, based on 13 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[6] Mike Schiller of PopMatters gave the album 7 stars out of 10, saying: "Death Peak is a very good album, and anyone who's followed Clark since Clarence Park should be happy with the twists and turns he continues to take."[14] Paul Clarke of Resident Advisor gave the album a 4.0 out of 5, describing the music on the album as IDM, techno and ambient, saying: "A large part of Death Peak—despite the morbid title—contains some of Clark's most accessible and melodic dance floor tracks."[16]Loud and Quiet's Luke Cartledge, in his positive review, praised the album for possessing "bizarre, profound (and not always entirely pleasant) impact."[11]Clash rated the album 7 out of 10 portraying the album as "nine-track barrage of industrial experimentalism."[9] The publication named it the 33rd best album of 2017.[17]
