''Lushlife'' is the third and final studio album by

Bowery Electric Bowery Electric was an American post-rock band, formed by Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener in 1993. History Formed by Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener in late 1993, Bowery Electric played their first show in New York City in Jan ...

. It was released on

Beggars Banquet Records Beggars Banquet Records is a British independent record label. Beggars Banquet started as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin and is part of the Beggars Group of labels. History In 1977, spurred by the prevailing DI ...

on February 22, 2000.

Reception

Andy Kellman of

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gave the album 3 stars out of 5, commenting that "

Lawrence Chandler Lawrence Chandler is an American composer, musician, producer and artist living in London. He is best known for his work as a founding member of the band Bowery Electric. Biography Following Bowery Electric's final tour in 2000 Chandler took a ...

's beats, though highly clichéd at points, land harder than before, and Martha Schwendener's vocals are more prominent." He called it their "most song-based" and "most accessible" work. Marc Savlov of ''

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'' gave the album 4 stars out of 5, describing it as "a morphine drip of an album, so clear and precise in its smokey, sexy grooves that it seems almost too easy to compare them to fellow late-night nodders Portishead." Sarah Zupko of ''

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'' gave the album 6 stars out of 10, saying, "the tone herein is decidedly downcast and often forlorn."

Track listing

Personnel

Bowery Electric

– programming, sampling, scratching, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, drums, string arrangement * Martha Schwendener – vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, string arrangement

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2000 albums Beggars Banquet Records albums Bowery Electric albums