| Whereabouts | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | May 18, 1999 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 39:05 | |||
| Label | Interscope | |||
| Producer | Tchad Blake, Mitchell Froom[1] | |||
| Ron Sexsmith chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
| Rolling Stone |  [4] |
| Spin | 8/10[5] |
Whereabouts is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, released in 1999 on Interscope Records.[6][7] The album was a nominee for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo at the 2000 Juno Awards.[8]
Critical reception
Entertainment Weekly wrote that "producers Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake do a wonderfully understated job of colorizing Sexsmith’s sad-kid melodies and voice."[1] The Washington Post wrote that the album "suggests the songs of a less clever Elvis Costello sung by David Byrne in his most earnest mode."[9] Rolling Stone called it "twelve near-perfect songs, the whole clocking in at under forty minutes."[4] Trouser Press wrote: "Carrying along such instrumental window dressing as banjo, strings, woodwinds and horns, it is overly languorous and stylistically diverse."[10] The New Yorker called the songs "either low-country laments or mid-tempo lullabies—minimalist heartbreakers all."[11]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Ronald Eldon Sexsmith
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Still Time" | 3:15 |
| 2. | "Right About Now" | 2:48 |
| 3. | "Must Have Heard It Wrong" | 2:15 |
| 4. | "Riverbed" | 3:55 |
| 5. | "Feel for You" | 3:42 |
| 6. | "In a Flash" | 3:03 |
| 7. | "The Idiot Boy" | 2:47 |
| 8. | "Beautiful View" | 2:52 |
| 9. | "One Grey Morning" | 3:56 |
| 10. | "Doomed" | 3:25 |
| 11. | "Every Passing Day" | 2:52 |
| 12. | "Seem to Recall" | 4:15 |
| Total length: | 39:05 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 13. | "Tears Behind the Shades" | 2:38 |
References
- 1 2 "Whereabouts". EW.com.
- ↑ "Whereabouts - Ron Sexsmith | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 361.
- 1 2 "Ron Sexsmith: Whereabouts : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". November 14, 2007. Archived from the original on November 14, 2007.
- ↑ "Reviews". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. August 2, 1999 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Pareles, Jon (June 5, 1999). "ROCK REVIEW; Not Really a Wallflower, But Quiet and Tender (Published 1999)" – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ "Ron Sexsmith | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ↑ Best Roots & Traditional Album: Solo (1996–2002). Juno Awards.
- ↑ Jenkins, Mark (June 4, 1999). "RON SEXSMITH" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
- ↑ "Ron Sexsmith". Trouser Press. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
- ↑ "Our Hit List". The New Yorker. December 27, 1999. p. 15.