''Violent Sky'' is the fourth studio album by the Swedish singer-songwriter
Lisa Miskovsky
Lisa Miskovsky (born 9 March 1975) is a Swedish musician and singer-songwriter.
Biography
Miskovsky quickly placed herself on the Swedish rock music charts with her debut album ''Lisa Miskovsky'' and single "Driving One of Your Cars", with Swed ...
, released on January 28, 2011. ''Violent Sky'' is her first
long play for five years since the 2006 album ''
Changes
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''. It was produced by Bjorn Yttling of
Peter, Bjorn and John.
Reception
Critical response
''Violent Sky'' received mixed to positive reviews from music critics. The Swedish website, ''Kritiker'', which assigns a
normalised rating out of 5.0 to reviews from mainstream critics across the country gave the album an
average
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score of 3.2, based on 19 reviews, which indicates mixed to favourable reviews.
This score was just below that given to 2006's ''Changes'' which scored a 3.4 and below the 3.6 awarded to 2003's ''
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Commercial performance
Upon its release, ''Violent Sky'' debuted at number four on the
Swedish Album Chart for the week of February 4, 2011.
This follows the number two debut of Miskovsky's
previous album and became her lowest debut position since her first album, excluding the compilation album released in 2008 that debuted at number fifteen.
The album fell to number seven the following week and fell steadily for the next four weeks. On its sixth week on release, the album fell outside the top forty, before regaining ground and making its way back up to number twenty-two in mid-April. It then left the chart, and re-entered on a few occasions later in the year. In total, the album spent 13 weeks on the Swedish Albums Chart.
Track listing
#"This Fire"
#"Got A Friend"
#"Lover"
#"Silver Shoes"
#"Some of Us"
#"Call Me Anything But My Name"
#"Get It On"
#"Wise Guy 2010"
#"Let Them Come"
#"A Little High"
#"Got A Friend" (Acoustic Version)
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
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2011 albums
Lisa Miskovsky albums