''Charlatan'' is the debut studio album by American

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band Victorian Halls. The 12-track album was recorded in Los Angeles in Cameron Webb's recording studio and released on 16 August 2011 by

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. The vinyl version of Charlatan was released on white-and-green marbled record, with a number of copies featuring an etching on the inner ring of the disc, as an inside joke, of the band professing their producer's love for

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. To promote the album, the band issued an interactive e-card containing a preview of each track from their new record. The cover art for the album was painted by Chelsea Greene Lewyta, a freelance avant-garde illustrator living in

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, US.

Track listing

References

2011 debut albums Victorian Halls albums Victory Records albums {{2010s-alt-rock-album-stub