Lifetime (Erika de Casier album)
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| Lifetime | ||||
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| Released | 8 May 2025 | |||
| Recorded | August 2023 – November 2024 | |||
| Genre | Trip hop | |||
| Length | 30:40 | |||
| Label | Independent Jeep | |||
| Producer | Erika de Casier | |||
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Lifetime is the fourth studio album from Danish singer-songwriter Erika de Casier. It was surprise-released on 8 May 2025 through her own label Independent Jeep Music only a year after the release of her third studio album Still (2024).
De Casier wrote and produced the album entirely by herself between August 2023 and November 2024.[1] It was mixed by Alonzo Vargas and mastered by Joe Laporta.[2] In April 2025, she sold a series of unlabeled cassettes of the project through Bandcamp which would later be leaked on YouTube.[3] The tapes were sold out in under thirty minutes and sparked speculations amongst fans and listeners about an upcoming album.[4]
The singer-songwriter revealed that the working title was Midnight Caller which she aimed to be a "form of communication during the night".[5] It reflects the feeling of time picking up the older one gets, growing aware of "mortality" and death but still "being grateful for what was, is, and will be".[6] A press release presented Lifetime as a "testament to de Casier's singular taste", highlighting her "ability to pull from the past" to curate music "with intention" and a touch that is "uniquely hers".[7]
Critical reception
In a positive review for Resident Advisor, Hattie Lindert wrote that the album "crystallises [de Casier's] tastemaking without ever sacrificing style for substance". In a "confidently self-referential" way, de Casier was able to blend "boy band swagger with the whispery grooves of Cibo Matto" or even Sade. Lindert noted the artist's "timeless" sound with a production approach that focuses on "long builds and slow-fading outros".[8]