Sheath (album)

Sheath
Studio album by
Released22 September 2003 (2003-09-22)[1]
GenreIDM
Length46:47
LabelWarp
ProducerMark Bell
LFO chronology
Advance
(1996)
Sheath
(2003)
Singles from Sheath
  1. "Freak"
    Released: 25 August 2003[2]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Alternative Press[5]
BBCfavorable[6]
Billboardfavorable[7]
Mojo[8]
The Observer[9]
Pitchfork7.3/10[10]
Playlouder[11]
Q[12]
Stylus MagazineB[13]

Sheath is the third and final studio album by British IDM project LFO. It was released by Warp on 22 September 2003. It peaked at number 27 on the UK Independent Albums Chart.[14]

  1. ^ "Sheath". Warp. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Freak". Warp. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Sheath by LFO". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  4. ^ Bush, John. "Sheath - LFO". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  5. ^ LFO executes these retro moves with flamboyance and subtlety, so we can forgive Bell his derivativeness. [Nov 2003, p.118]
  6. ^ Sullivan, Paul (2003). "LFO - Sheath - Review". BBC. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  7. ^ Klein, Joshua (3 September 2003). "LFO, "Sheath"". Billboard. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  8. ^ Some of it hisses and gurgles like early Future Sound Of London. [Oct 2003, p.118]
  9. ^ Reynolds, Simon (21 September 2003). "LFO, Sheath". The Observer. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  10. ^ Leone, Dominique (12 November 2003). "LFO: Sheath". Pitchfork. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  11. ^ Moffat, Iain (18 September 2003). "LFO: Sheath (2003)". Playlouder. Archived from the original on 20 November 2006. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  12. ^ Bell has an instinctive feel for sound but, as Freak's teeth-grinding acid house nostalgia underlines, he won't find a new audience with this. [Oct 2003, p.108]
  13. ^ D'Cruz, Matt (2 October 2003). "LFO - Sheath". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference officialcharts was invoked but never defined (see the help page).