''Aquaria'' (styled as ''AQUΛRIA'') is the debut studio album by American record producer, singer-songwriter,

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and musician

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. In the United States, the album has charted at number 14 on the '' Billboard''

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chart.

Background

Boots came to worldwide attention in December 2013 when Beyoncé released her highly successful fifth studio album '' Beyoncé'', for which BOOTS had written and produced several songs, including "

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", "Heaven" and "Blue". In May 2014, he released a mixtape titled '' WinterSpringSummerFall''. In early 2015, he released a five-song EP ''

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'', which served as a soundtrack album for a short film of the same title, directed by BOOTS. The release of his debut studio album ''Aquaria'' was announced by Columbia Records in a

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on August 20, 2015.

Critical reception

''Aquaria'' has received generally favorable reviews from music critics. At

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, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68, based on 17 reviews.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from

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;Musicians *

– vocals, bass, clapping, drums, farfisa organ, guitar, juno, Korg M1, mouth bass, piano, timpani, toms * Carla Azar – drums * Matt Barrick – claves, djembe, drums, juno, toms * Nick Brown – drums * Anthony Coleman – horn * Haley Dekle – vocals, background vocals * Deradoorian – vocals * Jason Disu – horn *

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– drums, synthesizer *

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– background vocals * Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. – Jupiter * Gabe Wax – electronics, guitar, moog synthesizer, synthesizer ;Technical personnel *

– drum programming, engineering, mixing, production * Carla Azar – additional production * Matt Barrick – additional production * Mario Borgatta – mixing assistant * Martin Cook – assistant engineer *

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– mixing *

– additional production, engineering, production * Florian Etien – engineering * Nicolas Fournier – assistant engineer * Elliot Lee Hazel – photography * Joe LaPorta – mastering * Gabe Wax – additional production, production * Stuart White – additional production, mixing

Charts

References

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