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Emotional Contracts is a 2023 studio album by American indie rock band Deer Tick, released on ATO Records.




Reception


According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Emotional Contracts received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 75 out of 100 from five critic scores. Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3 out of 5 stars, with critic Fred Thomas writing this album "finds Deer Tick operating at full power and making very few advancements from previous albums, seeing no need to fix what isn't broken with their meat-and-potatoes, blue-collar rock sound". In Glide Magazine, Shawn Donohue writes that this album sounds similar to The Band and Los Lobos without being retro and states that "there is a lot to like" on this release. At The Spill Magazine, the editors chose this as a pick and critic Tony Stuart rated it a 9 out of 10 for being "gloriously retro, but still looking forward" and writing that the "songs on the release all showcase different facets of the band, but the one consistent thread is that this is a very tight, well-rehearsed outfit".
Uncut ranked this the 62nd best album of 2023.




Track listing


All songs written by John McCauley, except where noted.

"If I Try to Leave" – 3:37
"Forgiving Ties" (Ian O'Neil and Dennis Michael Ryan) – 4:10
"Grey Matter" – 2:59
"If She Could Only See Me Now" – 2:51
"Running from Love" – 4:27
"Once in a Lifetime" – 4:42
"Disgrace (O'Neil and Julian Veronesi) – 2:54
"My Ship" – 2:19
"A Light Can Go Out in the Heart" (O'Neil) – 3:07
"The Real Thing" – 8:59




Personnel


Deer Tick

John Joseph McCauley – lead vocals, guitar
Ian Patrick O'Neil – guitar, backing vocals
Christopher Dale Ryan – bass guitar, backing vocals
Dennis Michael Ryan – drums, backing vocals
Additional personnel

Courtney Marie Andrews – vocals
John Baldwin – mastering
Steve Berlin – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone
Vanessa Carlton – vocals
Joshua Carrigan – inside photography
Jake Charkey – cello
Robbie Crowell – tenor saxophone
Kam Franklin – backing vocals on "Once in a Lifetime"
David Fridmann – synthesizer, programming, engineering, mixing, production
Jon Fridmann – flute, French horn, glockenspiel, trombone, trumpet, horn arrangement, engineering
Michael Fridmann – engineering
Lois Harada – cover typeset
Dana Lyn – viola
Maurisa Mackey – band photography
Angela Miller – vocals
Nate Moretti – drawing
Steve Poltz – vocals
Sheree Smith – vocals
Skye Steele – string arrangements, violin




See also


List of 2023 albums




References






External links


Emotional Contracts at Discogs (list of releases)
Emotional Contracts at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
Press release from Universal Music
Review from Far Out Magazine
Review from Tinnitist

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• Affair
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