The Planet
A nude Leanne Macomber stands with the bottom-half of her body in water.
Studio album (mini-album) by
Young Ejecta
ReleasedJanuary 27, 2015
Recorded2014
GenreSynth-pop
Length24:04
LabelDriftless Recordings
ProducerJoel Ford
Young Ejecta chronology
Dominae
(2013)		 The Planet
(2015)
Singles from The Planet
  1. "Welcome to Love"
    Released: November 4, 2014[1]
  2. "Your Planet"
    Released: November 24, 2014[2]
  3. "Into Your Heart"
    Released: January 6, 2015[3]

The Planet is the first mini-album by American synthpop duo Young Ejecta (Leanne Macomber and Joel Ford). The second overall studio album by the group and the first to be released under Young Ejecta, which had been changed from simply Ejecta due to a conflict with another DJ named Ejeca, the six-track record contains influences of minimalist electronic music, euro disco and 1970s pop music.[4] On October 8, 2014, the band announced they had finished producing the album.[5] Three singles spawned from the record: "Welcome to Love", "Your Planet" and "Into Your Heart". “Welcome to Love” was used in the closing credits scene of season 7 episode 10 of Orange Is The New Black.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic77/100[6]
Review scores
SourceRating
The 4057.5/10[7]
Allmusic[8]
Earbuddy7.5/10[9]
Exclaim!8/10[10]
Paste7.2/10[11]
Pitchfork Media6.5/10[12]
Popmatters[13]
Under the Radar[14]

Reviews of The Planet' were favorable. Andrew Darley of The 405 said that Young Ejecta achieved in proving they had an "ability in producing emotionally intelligent pop music with a knowing sense of enchanting melodies".[7] Exclaim! Scott Simpson scored the album an eight of ten, writing that it "works more than well enough as its own insular world, and is hopefully but a taste of more to come (Driftless)".[10] SLUG Magazine writer Allison Shephard called The Planet "good for those who aren’t ready for the full-on interstellar adventure and experienced explorers alike",[15] while Fast Forward Weekly critic Brock Thiessen described it as "hardly a big, bold addition to the world of electro-pop, but it is a pleasant one, further cementing Young Ejecta as a unique project worth both your time and attention."[16] However, in a more mixed review published in Popmatters, Colin Fitzgerald criticized The Planet for being "too morose and humorless to be really good pop music, and too upbeat and cheap to be taken very seriously."[13]

Track listing

  1. Into Your Heart 3:47
  2. Welcome to Love 4:22
  3. All Day 2:47
  4. Recluse 5:36
  5. Your Planet 4:17
  6. What You Done 3:15

References

  1. ↑ Chris (November 4, 2014). "premiere: Young Ejecta – Welcome to Love". Gorilla vs. Bear. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
  2. ↑ Ugwu, Reggie (November 25, 2014). "Premiere: Let Young Ejecta's "Your Planet" Beam You To Your Happy Place". BuzzFeed. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Young Ejecta "Into Your Heart"". Exclaim!. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
  4. ↑ Hughes, Josiah (October 16, 2014). "Ejecta Become Young Ejecta, Announce 'The Planet' Mini Album". Exclaim!. Ian Danzig. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
  5. ↑ "our new mini-album is mastered and ready to go :)". Young Ejecta. October 8, 2014. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
  6. ↑ "The Planet – Young Ejecta". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
  7. 1 2 Darley, Andrew (January 20, 2015). "Young Ejecta – The Planet [EP]". The 405. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
  8. ↑ Phares, Heather. "The Planet – Young Ejecta". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
  9. ↑ Daniel, Alex (January 27, 2015). "Young Ejecta – The Planet Review". Earbuddy. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  10. 1 2 Simpson, Scott (January 23, 2015). "Young Ejecta The Planet". Exclaim!. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
  11. ↑ Spinelli, Adrian (January 27, 2015). "Young Ejecta: Your Planet EP Review". Paste. Wolfgang's Vault. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  12. ↑ Geffen, Sasha (January 23, 2015). "Young Ejecta: The Planet EP". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
  13. 1 2 Fitzgerald, Colin (February 2, 2015). "Young Ejecta: The Planet EP". Popmatters. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  14. ↑ Bullock, Paul (January 27, 2015). "Young Ejecta: The Planet (Driftless) Review". Under the Radar. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  15. ↑ Shephard, Allison (January 1, 2015). "Review: Young Ejecta – The Planet". SLUG Magazine. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  16. ↑ Thiessen, Brock (January 29, 2015). "Young Ejecta – The Planet". Fast Forward Weekly. Great West Newspapers. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.