''The Entire City'' is the debut studio album by English
electronic music
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project
Gazelle Twin
Elizabeth Bernholz (née Walling), b. 1981 in Canterbury, England, and better known by her stage name Gazelle Twin, is an electronic music composer, producer and musician who is currently based in Leicestershire, England. She is unsigned and re ...
of composer, producer and musician Elizabeth Bernholz. It was released on 11 July 2011 by Anti-Ghost Moon Ray Records.
Background
The album was the first one that Bernholz produced. She used
Ableton 7 to create it. The artist describes ''The Entire City'' as her "landscape album". She further explains that she was "illustrating places and times and alien landscapes, but warped memories too".
Critical reception
''The Entire City'' garnered critical acclaim upon release. Charlotte Richardson Andrews of ''
The Guardian
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'' gave the album a five-star review, calling it a "stunning debut".
Simon Price
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Career Writer
Pric ...
wrote the record "will haunt you long after listening", in his review for ''
The Independent
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on Sunday''.
Jazz Monroe, writing for ''
Drowned in Sound
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'', gave it an eight out of ten, opining that "The Entire City - while slippery as a fish out of water, by all accounts - is crystal clear of ambition and concept."
He also did another review for ''
NME
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'', giving it a similar score and calling it a "triumph of art-pop splendour – equal parts terror and temerity."
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''The Entire City''.
* Gazelle Twin – composition, recording, production, lyrics
* Shawn Joseph – mastering
* Russ Keffert – mastering
* Suzanne Moxhay – artwork
References
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2011 debut albums
Gazelle Twin albums