The Best Day (Thurston Moore album)
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| The Best Day | ||||
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| Released | October 20, 2014 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, noise rock | |||
| Length | 50:22 | |||
| Label | Matador | |||
| Producer | Thurston Moore | |||
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The Best Day is the tenth solo studio album by the American alternative rock musician Thurston Moore, released on October 20, 2014 on Matador Records.[1] The album cover is a photograph of Moore's mother, Eleanor Moore, circa 1940 and a photograph of Moore's parents is used as artwork.[2]
The Best Day was announced for release in March 2014 on Sonic Youth's official news blog.[3] A month prior to its announcement, Moore released "Detonation" as a standalone 7-inch single, backed with "Germs Burn" as its B-side, on the independent English label Blank Editions as part of its Solo Series.[4][5]
A formal announcement of The Best Day, including cover art, a track listing and release dates, was made on August 20 by Matador Records.[6] The album was released on October 20 in Denmark, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom; October 21 in Spain and the United States; and October 24 in Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Officially licensed streams of the album were made available on NPR Music and The Guardian's official web sites a week prior to its international release.[7][8] The Best Day was issued as a double LP, single CD and as a digital download, with the first 100 U.S. LP pressings featuring an autographed poster.[9]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 75/100[10] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [11] |
| The A.V. Club | B[12] |
| Consequence of Sound | B−[13] |
| Cuepoint (Expert Witness) |  [14] |
| The Guardian | [15] |
| NME | 8/10[16] |
| Pitchfork | 7.1/10[17] |
| PopMatters | 7/10[18] |
| Rolling Stone | [19] |
| Slant Magazine | [20] |
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Speak to the Wild" | 8:30 |
| 2. | "Forevermore" | 11:15 |
| 3. | "Tape" | 5:54 |
| 4. | "The Best Day" | 4:31 |
| 5. | "Detonation" | 2:56 |
| 6. | "Vocabularies" | 4:31 |
| 7. | "Grace Lake" | 6:53 |
| 8. | "Germs Burn" | 5:52 |
| Total length: | 50:22 | |
