Jet Lag (Josiah Wolf album)
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| Jet Lag | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | March 2, 2010[1] | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 46:36 | |||
| Label | Anticon | |||
| Producer | Josiah Wolf | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 62/100[2] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Beats Per Minute | 77/100[4] |
| Exclaim! | favorable[5] |
| Impose | favorable[6] |
| MusicOMH | [7] |
| Pitchfork | 5.6/10[8] |
| PopMatters | [9] |
| The Skinny | [10] |
| URB |  [11] |
| XLR8R | 6/10[12] |
Jet Lag is the first solo studio album by American multi-instrumentalist Josiah Wolf.[13] It was released on Anticon on March 2, 2010.[14] The songs on the album were written after the demise of Wolf's 11-year marriage.[15] All the instruments were played by Wolf himself and recorded in a secluded cottage near Cincinnati, Ohio.[15]
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Jet Lag received an average score of 62% based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[2]
Brett Uddenberg of URB gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5, saying, "Wolf's elastic compositions straddle the line between a multitude of genres without making it sound forced."[11] He added: "Widely respected as one of the best drummers on the indie scene for years, Josiah Wolf has deftly proven he has the chops to stand on his own."[11]
Anthony Mark Happel of Impose said, "Wolf adds kalimba, organ, bells, drums, etc. to his mostly effective guitar playing, and there is a serious quality to the playing in general, underscored by a sense of self-effacement and humility in the insular poetry of the songs."[6]