''Hardly Electronic'' is the fourth
studio album
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by American
indie rock
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band
The Essex Green
The Essex Green is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn that has released four albums to date. The band is primarily composed of songwriters Jeff Baron, Sasha Bell and Chris Ziter, and specializes in a classic sound inspired by 1960s–197 ...
. It was released on June 29, 2018 under
Merge Records
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.
Critical reception
''Hardly Electronic'' 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 75, based on 7 reviews.
Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release an 80 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 6 reviews.
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians
* Jeff Baron – vocals
* Sasha Bell – guitar
* Christopher Ziter – drums
Production
* Fred Kevorkian – mastering
* Matt Boynton – mixing
References
2018 albums
The Essex Green albums
Merge Records albums
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