''Rivington Não Rio'' is a studio album by American producer
Guillermo Scott Herren under his alias of Prefuse 73, released by
Temporary Residence Limited
Temporary Residence Limited (shortened TRL) is a Brooklyn, New York–based record label. TRL was started in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1996 by Jeremy DeVine, and initially concentrated on releasing music by Louisville-based bands. in 2015. ''Rivington Não Rio'' was Herren's first album since 2011's ''
The Only She Chapters'', after which he was told by his label that they would not be accepting more material from him. After the release, he spent his time away from music and then later collaborating with other artists and attempting to start a new label called Yellow Year.
After four years since his past album, Herren signed to
Temporary Residence Limited
Temporary Residence Limited (shortened TRL) is a Brooklyn, New York–based record label. TRL was started in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1996 by Jeremy DeVine, and initially concentrated on releasing music by Louisville-based bands. and released two EPs along with ''Rivington Não Rio'' in 2015. The album received generally favorable reviews.
Background and production
In 2011, after releasing ''
The Only She Chapters'', Herron's eighth album for
Warp
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, the label informed Herren that it would not accept any more material from him.
This led to the rights to the master recordings of his material to be kept with the label.
Herren was not sure why he was dropped by Warp and felt unsure about what direction to take next.
Herren worked with
Teebs
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(real name Mtendere Mandowa) creating a group called
Sons of the Morning.
In 2013, he launched a label called Yellow Year, which would release an album titled ''Speak Soon'' a collaboration between Herren and many contemporary and older musicians including Mandowa and Chung as well as the reclusive Swiss musician Dimitri Grimm, aka
Dimlite. Herren embarked on a month-long American tour in January 2014 under the Yellow Year banner, but the album was not released due to creative and operational differences.
The remainder of 2014 was spent looking for a label to release his new material. Under the recommendation of musicians
Nigel Godrich
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and
Kieran Hebden
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, Herron signed to
Temporary Residence Limited
Temporary Residence Limited (shortened TRL) is a Brooklyn, New York–based record label. TRL was started in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1996 by Jeremy DeVine, and initially concentrated on releasing music by Louisville-based bands. .
Including the album, Herron released two EPs through the label in 2015. The music on the EPs was written in a six-month period following the album being handed in at the label.
Release
''Rivington Não Rio'' was released on May 12, 2015 on the
Temporary Residence Limited
Temporary Residence Limited (shortened TRL) is a Brooklyn, New York–based record label. TRL was started in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1996 by Jeremy DeVine, and initially concentrated on releasing music by Louisville-based bands. label.
The album was part of a group of releases, including the ''Forsyth Garden EP'' on April 28, 2015 and the ''Every Color of Darkness'' EP on July 14, 2015.
Reception
At
Metacritic
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, which assigns a
normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an
average
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score of 76, based on 6 reviews indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Track listing
References
External links
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2015 albums
Prefuse 73 albums
Temporary Residence Limited albums