''Pinned'' is the fifth

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by American

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band A Place to Bury Strangers. It was released on April 13, 2018 under

Dead Oceans Dead Oceans is an American independent record label formed in 2007 and based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Dead Oceans is part of Secretly Group, which also ...

Release

On January 31, 2018, the band announced the release of the album, alongside the first single "Never Coming Back". On March 1, 2018 the band released a music video directed by Elizabeth Skadden for the next single, "There's Only One of Us". The third single "Frustrated Operator" was released on April 11, 2018.

Tour

The band announced a world tour in support of the album from March 2018 to June 2018.

Critical reception

''Pinned'' was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 68, based on 10 reviews. Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release 61 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 12 reviews.

Accolades

Track listing

Charts

Personnel

* Miles Johnson – art direction *

Heba Kadry Heba Kadry is an Egyptian mastering engineer who currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for her work with Bjork, Beach House, Slowdive, The Mars Volta, Neon Indian, Wooden Shjips, Lightning Bolt, White Hills, Alex G, Future ...

– mastering * Ebru Yildiz – photography

References

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