100 Lovers

May 2025 100 Lovers studio DeVotchKa 100 Lovers (DeVotchKa album - cover art).jpg 2011 02 28 Wavelab, Tucson, ArizonaNFA, Denver, Colorado Indie folk, gypsy punk 44:38 Anti- Craig Schumacher DeVotchKa I Love You, Philip Morris 2009 This Night Falls Forever 2018 100 Lovers is the sixth studio album by American indie folk band DeVotchKa. It was released by Anti- Records on February 28, 2011. Release The first music video "100 Other Lovers" was released on February 3, 2011, and directed by Chloe Rodham. Devotchka released the music video to "All the Sand in All the Sea" on their official YouTube on February 15, 2011. Critical reception 6.4/10 72/100 AllMusic 3.5 5 The Austin Chronicle 4 5 The A.V. Club B Consequence of Sound B Los Angeles Times 3.5 5 Paste 7.8/10 Pitchfork 5.3/10 PopMatters 7/10 Slant Magazine 2.5 5 Tiny Mix Tapes 2 5 100 Lovers was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 72 based on 18 reviews. At AnyDecentMusic?, the album was given a 6.4 out of 10 based on a critical consensus 17 reviews. The AllMusic review by James Christopher Monger stated, "It's a melting pot to be sure, and the band has a tendency to go heavy on the atmosphere and light on the hooks, but there’s never any doubt that it’s a brew tended over by some awfully talented cooks." At Pitchfork, David Bevan wrote: "100 Lovers, with its interludes, clever sequencing, and the appropriately titled instrumental "Sunshine", feels less like a grouping of songs as it does an entirely different animal altogether." Melanie Haupt of The Austin Chronicle gave a four out of five stars, describing the instrumentation on the album "more lushly realized than ever." At Los Angeles Times, writer Randy Lewis explained: "DeVotchKa creates music that explodes with the desperate passion of someone standing at the end of a pier, or lost in the middle of a desert." In a review for Paste, critic reviewer Steve LaBate wrote: "DeVotchKa's fifth studio LP, 100 Lovers, begins with a gorgeously moody and cinematic wash of synths, strings and piano seeping forth as if water through a crack in a dam. From beneath this swirl of sound, a steady-marching drumbeat subtly emerges, pressure building slowly at first but then more and more rapidly until, finally, the wall holding back the floodwaters bursts in a majestic symphonic crescendo." Track listing 100 Lovers track listing Nick Urata and DeVotchKa. The Alley 5:04 All the Sand in All the Seas 4:50 100 Other Lovers 4:11 The Common Good 4:26 Interlude 1 0:40 The Man from San Sebastian 3:44 Exhaustible 3:30 Interlude 2 0:23 Bad Luck Heels 4:15 Ruthless 4:48 Contrabanda 3:54 Sunshine 4:55 Personnel DeVotchKa: Vocals, guitar: Nick Urata Sousaphone: Jeanie Schroder Drums: Shawn King Piano: Thomas Hagerman Strings: Violin 1: Regan Kane Violin 2: Takanori Sugishita Violin 3: Ilya Goldberg Viola 1: Summer Rhodes Viola 2: Lisa Jablonowski Cello 1: Charles Lee Cello 2: Eleanor Wells Wind Bandoneon: Evan Orman Tenor/Baritone Saxophone: Dan Sjogren Trumpets Chris Barron Derek Banach Jacob Valenzuela Percussion Mauro Refosco Charts + Chart performance for 100 Lovers Chart (2011) PeakpositionBillboard200 70 DeVotchka true May 5, 2021BillboardIndependent 9 DeVotchka true March 15, 2021BillboardAlternative 12 DeVotchka true March 15, 2021BillboardRock 17 DeVotchka true May 5, 2021BillboardTastemaker 6 DeVotchka true May 5, 2021 References http://anydecentmusic.com/review/2699/DeVotchKa-100-Lovers.aspx AnyDecentMusic? Review AnyDecentMusic? April 5, 2021 Christopher Monger James https://www.allmusic.com/album/100-lovers-mw0002097018 100 Lovers at AllMusic AllMusic April 5, 2021 https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2011-03-18/devotchka-100-lovers/ The Austin Chronicle Review The Austin Chronicle Haupt Melanie March 18, 2011 May 5, 2021 https://www.avclub.com/devotchka-100-lovers-1798167436 The A.V. Club Review The A.V. Club O'Neal Sean March 1, 2011 May 5, 2021 https://consequence.net/2011/03/album-review-devotchka-100-lovers/ Consequence of Sound Review Consequence of Sound Young Alec March 15, 2011 May 5, 2021 https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/02/album-review-devotchkas-100-lovers.html LA Times Review Los Angeles Times Lewis Randy February 28, 2011 May 5, 2021 https://www.metacritic.com/music/100-lovers/devotchka Metacritic Review Metacritic May 5, 2021 https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/devotchka/devotchka-100-lovers/ Paste Magazine Review Paste LaBate Steve March 1, 2011 May 5, 2021 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15186-100-lovers/ Pitchfork Review David Bevan March 10, 2011 Pitchfork October 24, 2012 https://www.popmatters.com/136768-devotchka-100-lovers-2496081253.html PopMatters Review PopMatters Cober-Lake Justin March 1, 2011 May 5, 2021 https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/devotchka-100-lovers/ Slant Magazine Review Slant Magazine Cataldo Jesse February 28, 2011 May 5, 2021 https://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/DeVotchKa-100-Lovers Tiny Mix Tapes Review Tiny Mix Tapes RS Nick May 5, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZD0HA91NlQ Devotchka - 100 Other Lovers YouTube May 5, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cilxe4G0Cho Devotchka - All the Sand in All the Sea YouTube May 5, 2021 Category:2011 albums Category:Anti- (record label) albums Category:DeVotchKa albums