Emerald City (John Vanderslice album)
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| Emerald City | ||||
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| Released | July 24, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 38:16 | |||
| Label | Barsuk | |||
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Emerald City is the sixth album by American singer-songwriter John Vanderslice. It was officially released in the United States on July 24, 2007, after having been leaked to the internet on or around June 23, 2007.[1]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   link |
| Metacritic | (82/100) link |
| Pitchfork Media | (6.2/10) |
| The Wheel's Still in Spin | link |
| Slant | link |
Vanderslice has said about the album: "I was so beaten down after the 2000 election and after 9/11 and then the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan; I was so depleted as a person after all that stuff happened, that I had to write my way out of it. I really had to write political songs because for me it is a way of making sense and processing what is going on."[2]
The name of the album references both the nickname of the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad and the name of the city in The Wizard of Oz.
