Legerdemain (album)

Legerdemain
An outline of a man's shadow standing in front of a large metallic circle that is covered in machine parts
Studio album by
Duncan Sheik
ReleasedOctober 9, 2015 (2015-10-09)
StudioSneaky Studios, Garrison, New York, US
GenreElectronic music[1]
Length69:54
LanguageEnglish
LabelSneaky
ProducerDuncan Sheik
Duncan Sheik chronology
Covers 80s Remixed
(2012) 		Legerdemain
(2015) 		American Psycho
(2016)

It's this album of two parts, the first half of it reflects my kind of renewed excitement about electronic music, and it's really I guess my own strange hybridization of pop song structure with EDM aesthetics. And then the second half of the record is more what I call typical Duncan Sheik self-indulgent art songs and it's more organic, sparse, internal and darker. But the whole thing is like a battery, the first half has a positive charge and the second half has a negative charge but it kind of works together as a whole.

—Sheik on the concept behind Legerdemain[2]

Legerdemain is a 2015 studio album by American singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik. The album has received positive reviews from critics and is a transitional one for Sheik as a songwriter, borrowing from his love of electronic music as well as his work scoring musical theater.[3] The music was written contemporaneously to scoring American Psycho,[4] and is his first album of original popular music in almost a decade[5] and was supported by live performances around his Broadway theatre schedule.[6]

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