Whereabouts

Whereabouts is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, released in 1999 on Interscope Records.[6][7] The album was a nominee for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo at the 2000 Juno Awards.[8]

Whereabouts
Studio album by
Ron Sexsmith
ReleasedMay 18, 1999
GenreRock
Length39:05
LabelInterscope
ProducerTchad Blake, Mitchell Froom[1]
Ron Sexsmith chronology
Other Songs
(1997)		 Whereabouts
(1999)		 Blue Boy
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Rolling Stone[4]
Spin8/10[5]

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly wrote that "producers Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake do a wonderfully understated job of colorizing Sexsmith’s sad-kid melodies and voice."[1] The Washington Post wrote that the album "suggests the songs of a less clever Elvis Costello sung by David Byrne in his most earnest mode."[9] Rolling Stone called it "twelve near-perfect songs, the whole clocking in at under forty minutes."[4] Trouser Press wrote: "Carrying along such instrumental window dressing as banjo, strings, woodwinds and horns, it is overly languorous and stylistically diverse."[10] The New Yorker called the songs "either low-country laments or mid-tempo lullabies—minimalist heartbreakers all."[11]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ronald Eldon Sexsmith.

No.TitleLength
1."Still Time"3:15
2."Right About Now"2:48
3."Must Have Heard It Wrong"2:15
4."Riverbed"3:55
5."Feel for You"3:42
6."In a Flash"3:03
7."The Idiot Boy"2:47
8."Beautiful View"2:52
9."One Grey Morning"3:56
10."Doomed"3:25
11."Every Passing Day"2:52
12."Seem to Recall"4:15
Total length:39:05
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
13."Tears Behind the Shades"2:38

References
  1. "Whereabouts". EW.com.
  2. "Whereabouts - Ron Sexsmith | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 7: MUZE. p. 361.CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. "Ron Sexsmith: Whereabouts : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". web.archive.org. November 14, 2007.
  5. "Reviews". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. August 2, 1999 – via Google Books.
  6. Pareles, Jon (June 5, 1999). "ROCK REVIEW; Not Really a Wallflower, But Quiet and Tender (Published 1999)" – via NYTimes.com.
  7. "Ron Sexsmith | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. Best Roots & Traditional Album: Solo (1996–2002). Juno Awards.
  9. Jenkins, Mark (June 4, 1999). "RON SEXSMITH" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  10. "Ron Sexsmith". Trouser Press. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  11. "Our Hit List". The New Yorker: 15. December 27, 1999.



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