Healing Is a Miracle
| Healing Is a Miracle | ||||
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| Released | July 11, 2020 | |||
| Length | 33:30 | |||
| Label | Ninja Tune | |||
| Producer | Julianna Barwick | |||
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Healing Is a Miracle is the fourth studio album by American musician Julianna Barwick. It was released on July 10, 2020 under Ninja Tune.
Singles
On May 20, 2020, Barwick announced the release of her new album, along with the first single "Inspirit". The second single "In Light", which features Sigur Rós lead singer Jónsi, was released on June 18, 2020.
Critical reception
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Beats Per Minute | 70% |
| Exclaim! | 8/10 |
| The Line of Best Fit | 7/10 |
| Loud and Quiet | 8/10 |
| Mojo | |
| MusicOMH |  |
| Pitchfork | 8.3/10 |
| Slant Magazine | |
| Uncut | 8/10 |
Healing Is a Miracle 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 79, based on 13 reviews. Aggregator albumoftheyear.org gave the album 76 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 14 reviews.
Accolades
The album appeared in several best-albums-of-2020 yearend lists, including those published by Drowned in Sound, The Line of Best Fit, Crack Magazine, musicOMH, Paste, Gorilla vs. Bear, Our Culture, The Vinyl Factory, Uncut, Noisey.com, God Is in the TV, AllMusic and The New Yorker.
Track listing
Track listing adapted from Tidal
All tracks are written by Julianna Barwick, unless noted
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Inspirit" |
| 4:13 |
| 2. | "Oh, Memory" (featuring Mary Lattimore) |
| 3:47 |
| 3. | "Healing Is a Miracle" |
| 4:11 |
| 4. | "In Light" (featuring Jónsi) |
| 6:06 |
| 5. | "Safe" |
| 5:00 |
| 6. | "Flowers" |
| 2:27 |
| 7. | "Wishing Well" |
| 3:53 |
| 8. | "Nod" (featuring Nosaj Thing) |
| 3:57 |
| Total length: | 33:30 | ||
Personnel
- Julianna Barwick – vocals (all tracks), producer (all tracks)
- Mary Lattimore – vocals (track 2)
- Jónsi – vocals (track 4)
- Nosaj Thing – vocals (track 8)
- Heba Kadry – mixing & mastering (all tracks), engineer (all tracks)