''C'est La Vie'' is the seventh studio album by
Phosphorescent. The album was released on
Dead Oceans
Dead Oceans, Inc., is an American independent record label founded in 2006 and based in Bloomington, Indiana.
History
On June 30, 2006, Phil Waldorf founded Dead Oceans with Chris Swanson. Swanson suggested the name Dead Oceans, which came fro ...
on October 5, 2018.
Release
On July 30, 2018, Matthew Houck - under his stage name ''Phosphorescent'' - announced the release of his seventh album, along with the first single "New Birth in New England".
Critical reception
''C'est La Vie'' was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At
Metacritic
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, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an
average
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score of 80 based on 19 reviews.
Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 76 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 21 reviews.
Track listing
Charts
Personnel
Credits adapted from
AllMusic
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Musicians
*
Matthew Houck – primary artist, vocals, producer
* Ricky Ray Jackson – guitar
*
Luke Reynolds
Lucas Fitzpatrick Reynolds (born April 20, 1979) is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, artist, writer and producer. He also plays the But Why theme song which comes from his song “no way to know what’s coming.”
Career Stud ...
– guitar
* Christopher Marine – drums
* Kevin Black – bass
* Jo Schornikow – accordion, piano
* Scott Stapleton – piano
* Dave Roe – bass
* Rustine Bragaw – bass
* Alexis Saski – backing vocals
* Maureen Murphy – backing vocals
*
Kyshona Armstrong – backing vocals
* Nicole Boggs – backing vocals
Production
* Richard Dodd – mastering
*
Vance Powell
Vance Powell is an American six-time Grammy Award winning record producer, engineer and mixer. His credits include Phish, Chris Stapleton, Jack White, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, The White Stripes, Arctic Monke ...
– engineer
* Andrija Tokic – engineer
References
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Phosphorescent (band) albums
2018 albums
Dead Oceans albums