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Ritual (White Lies album)

Ritual
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Studio album by White Lies
Released 17 January 2011 (2011-01-17)
Studio Assault and Battery 2 (London, England)
Genre Indie rock,post-punk revival
Length 49:39
Label Fiction
Producer Alan Moulder, Max Dingel
White Lies chronology
To Lose My Life...
(2009)		 Ritual
(2011)		 Big TV
(2013)
Singles from Ritual
  1. "Bigger than Us"
    Released: 3 January 2011
  2. "Strangers"
    Released: 21 March 2011
  3. "Holy Ghost"
    Released: 10 June 2011
  4. "The Power & the Glory"
    Released: 25 September 2011
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 60/100
Review scores
Source Rating
BBC Music (positive)
Drowned In Sound 5/10 stars
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars
NME 6/10 stars
Rolling Stone 2/5 stars
Spin 4/10 stars
Sputnik Music 2.5/5 stars
The Telegraph 2/5 stars
Pitchfork Media (2.5/10)
Paste Magazine (8.4/10)
The Quietus (very negative)
TMR (7/10)

Ritual is the second studio album by the British Indie rock band White Lies. It was released on 17 January 2011, through Fiction Records. The album was produced by Alan Moulder and Max Dingel, at the Assault & Battery Studios in London. The art direction and design was done by Tom Hingston Studio. The album's lead single, "Bigger than Us", was released on 3 January 2011.

A Ritual short film was released, containing three songs from the album: "Bad Love", "Holy Ghost" and "Bigger than Us".

Ritual was met with mixed reviews. According to Metacritic, Ritual garnered an average score of 60 out of 100, from 24 reviews.

All tracks written by Harry McVeigh, Charles Cave and Jack Lawrence-Brown.


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