Daylight (Duncan Sheik album)

Daylight is the fourth album by American singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik. It was released on Atlantic Records in 2002.

Daylight
Studio album by
Duncan Sheik
Released27 August 2002
Length48:32
LabelAtlantic
ProducerPatrick Leonard, Duncan Sheik
Duncan Sheik chronology
Phantom Moon
(2001)		 Daylight
(2002)		 White Limousine
(2006)
Singles from Daylight
  1. "On a High"
    Released: September 7, 2002
  2. "Half-Life"
    Released: October 3, 2002

Details

The Japanese version included the song "Lost On The Moon" as a bonus track, while a special tour version was released in 2004 with a bonus disc, which included live versions of "Barely Breathing" and "Half-Life", alternate versions of "Bite Your Tongue" and "On a High", and a remix of "Reasons For Living".

"Half-Life" was also featured in the 2003 film What a Girl Wants.

Reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(71/100)[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Billboard(favorable)[3]
Blender[1]
E! OnlineB[1]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[4]
The Music Box[5]
Paste(unfavorable)[6]
People(positive)[7]
Q[8]
Rolling Stone[9]

The album was met with moderate commercial success and favorable reviews. Review aggregating website Metacritic reports a normalized score of 71% based on 7 reviews.[1] Entertainment Weekly wrote that "the silky-voiced folk-popster successfully rocks up his sound on his fourth album, adding a polite but firm electric edge".[4]

Track listing
  1. "Genius" – 3:43
  2. "Half-Life" – 3:59
  3. "Start Again" – 3:55
  4. "On Her Mind" – 4:11
  5. "Such Reveries" – 5:00
  6. "On a High" – 3:36
  7. "Magazines" – 3:47
  8. "For You" – 2:11
  9. "Good Morning!" – 4:04
  10. "Memento" – 3:47
  11. "Shine Inside" – 10:19

Note: The American version of the album features the song "Chimera" after "Shine Inside" as part of the final track (6 minutes and 28 seconds into the track).

References
  1. Critic reviews from Metacritic
  2. Daylight at AllMusic
  3. "Billboard review". Archived from the original on September 12, 2002. Retrieved 2013-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. Entertainment Weekly review
  5. The Music Box review
  6. Paste review
  7. People review
  8. Album reviews at CD Universe
  9. "Rolling Stone review". Archived from the original on June 4, 2008. Retrieved 2007-02-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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