Legerdemain (album)
2015 studio album by Duncan Sheik / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Legerdemain is a 2015 studio album by American singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik. The album has received positive reviews from critics and is a transitional one for Sheik as a songwriter, borrowing from his love of electronic music as well as his work scoring musical theater.[3] The music was written contemporaneously to scoring American Psycho,[4] and is his first album of original popular music in almost a decade[5] and was supported by live performances around his Broadway theatre schedule.[6]
Legerdemain | ||||
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Released | October 9, 2015 (2015-10-09) | |||
Studio | Sneaky Studios, Garrison, New York, US | |||
Genre | Electronic music[1] | |||
Length | 69:54 | |||
Language | English | |||
Label | Sneaky | |||
Producer | Duncan Sheik | |||
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It's this album of two parts, the first half of it reflects my kind of renewed excitement about electronic music, and it's really I guess my own strange hybridization of pop song structure with EDM aesthetics. And then the second half of the record is more what I call typical Duncan Sheik self-indulgent art songs and it's more organic, sparse, internal and darker. But the whole thing is like a battery, the first half has a positive charge and the second half has a negative charge but it kind of works together as a whole.
—Sheik on the concept behind Legerdemain[2]