Wheel (album)

This article is about the Laura Stevenson album. For other uses, see Wheels (disambiguation) and Wheel (disambiguation).
Wheel
Studio album by
Laura Stevenson
ReleasedApril 23, 2013
RecordedFall 2012; Marcata Recording, New Paltz, New York
GenreFolk
Length46:10
LabelDon Giovanni Records
ProducerKevin McMahon
Laura Stevenson chronology
Sit Resist
(2011) 		Wheel
(2013) 		Cocksure
(2015)

Wheel is the third album by American singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson, and the first to be credited solely to her.[1] The album was released through Don Giovanni Records on April 23, 2013.

Background

Stevenson stated that the album's tracks were written in "various states of depression" and that she had a "tormented" time recording the album. She said, "the recording process, I really struggled with it, so I put it away. And then, everybody was like, “Oh, you’re gonna get a Pitchfork review and this is gonna be so cool.” So I was like, “Oh, okay.” Then my hopes got really high that things were going to get easier for me, like I was gonna get a little bump and that was going to be helpful. Then that didn’t happen and it was the same slog, which is fine now, in retrospect. But when it came out, I got super disappointed afterwards and then I just tucked that record away. I mean, I still played the songs, but I never really listened to it."[2]

Track listing

  1. Renée
  2. Triangle
  3. Runner
  4. Every Tense
  5. Bells & Whistles
  6. Sink, Swim
  7. The Hole
  8. Eleonora
  9. The Move
  10. Journey to the Center of the Earth
  11. Telluride
  12. L-Dopa
  13. The Wheel

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic81/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork Media6.2/10[7]
PopMatters9/10[4]
Punknews.org4.5/5[6]
Sputnikmusic5/5[5]

References

  1. ^ Gallagher, Natalie. "Laura Stevenson: I'm not writing for people with an". City Pages.
  2. ^ https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/laura-stevenson/laura-stevenson-looks-back-on-10-years-of-wheel
  3. ^ "Wheel by Laura Stevenson Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  4. ^ Smith, Robin (April 23, 2013). "Laura Stevenson: Wheel". PopMatters.
  5. ^ Freeman, Channing (April 4, 2013). "Review: Laura Stevenson - Wheel". Sputnikmusic.
  6. ^ "Laura Stevenson - Wheel". PunkNews. April 30, 2013.
  7. ^ Snapes, Laura (April 29, 2013). "Laura Stevenson: Wheel Album Review". Pitchfork.



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