Little Hell (album)

This article is about the City and Colour album. For the Marissa Nadler album, see Little Hells.
Little Hell
Studio album by
City and Colour
ReleasedJune 7, 2011
RecordedJanuary – February 2011
StudioCatherine North Studios, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Genre
Length47:27
LabelDine Alone, Vagrant
ProducerAlex Newport
City and Colour chronology
Bring Me Your Love
(2008) 		Little Hell
(2011) 		The Hurry and the Harm
(2013)
Singles from Little Hell
  1. "Fragile Bird"
    Released: April 5, 2011
  2. "Weightless"
    Released: 2011
  3. "The Grand Optimist"
    Released: 2012
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic78/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk86%[4]
AllMusic[5]
Blare[6]
Rock Sound8/10[2]
Spin7/10[7]

Little Hell is the third album by City and Colour, released on June 7, 2011. Besides Dallas Green who recorded the majority of the instrumentals himself, contributing musicians on the record include Daniel Romano of Attack in Black, Dylan Green and Scott Remila of Raising the Fawn, Nick Skalkos of The Miniatures, Misha Bower of Bruce Peninsula and Anna Jarvis and Jordan Mitchell of The Rest. The album art is an illustration of Allard Schager's photograph "Fields of Gold", taken in a tulip field outside Alkmaar in North Holland.[8]

The album received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 78, based on 11 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[3] The track "Sorrowing Man" was used as the opening theme song of the Thandiwe Newton series Rogue during its second season, and was also used in the One Tree Hill ninth-season episode, "A Rush of Blood to the Head". Album cover art work inspired by the 1976 film Futureworld. In the film once the cast enters the simulation the art work hanging on the wall at the 27:53 time stamp can be seen however not identical to the album cover the inspiration is revealed.

  1. ^ Hogan, Mike (June 8, 2011). "REVIEW: City And Colour – Little Hell". Boston: Under The Gun Review. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved June 8, 2011.
  2. ^ a b Bangs, Amy (June 3, 2011). "City And Colour – Little Hell: Reviews: Rock Sound". Rock Sound. Archived from the original on June 9, 2011. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Little Hell Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More". Metacritic. Archived from the original on September 11, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
  4. ^ Gardner, Ryan (June 6, 2011). "City And Colour – Little Hell – Album Review". Absolute Punk. Archived from the original on July 3, 2021. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  5. ^ Monger, James (June 6, 2011). "City And Colour – Little Hell – Album Review". AllMusic. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
  6. ^ Khan, Joshua (5 June 2011). "REVIEW: City And Colour – 'Little Hell'". Blare. Toronto. Archived from the original on 17 November 2011. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
  7. ^ Young, Jon (June 2, 2011). "City And Colour, 'Little Hell' (Vagrant)". Spin. New York. Archived from the original on December 3, 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
  8. ^ One, Allard (April 20, 2009). "Fields of Gold |". Flickr. Archived from the original on September 6, 2011. Retrieved February 28, 2012.