One Part Lullaby

One Part Lullaby is the third album by The Folk Implosion. It was released on September 7, 1999 on Interscope Records. Despite being the band's major label debut and garnering mostly positive reviews, the album failed to produce any hit singles. In a 2013 interview on WTF with Marc Maron, Barlow viewed the album as a "disaster".[9]

One Part Lullaby
Studio album by
The Folk Implosion
ReleasedSeptember 7, 1999
GenreAlternative rock
Length55:02
LabelInterscope (USA)
Domino (UK)
ProducerWally Gagel
The Folk Implosion chronology
Dare to Be Surprised
(1997)		 One Part Lullaby
(1999)		 The New Folk Implosion
(2003)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic77/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [2]
Drowned in Sound8/10[3]
Entertainment WeeklyA–[4]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]
NME8/10[6]
Rolling Stone[7]
The Village VoiceB+[8]

The song "Kingdom of Lies" was featured in the Danny Boyle film A Life Less Ordinary (1997). "Free to Go" was featured on the soundtrack to the Academy Award-winning film American Beauty. The song "One Part Lullaby" was featured in the film Adaptation. (2002). It is the last Folk Implosion album to feature founding member John Davis.

Track listing
  1. My Ritual - 4:35
  2. One Part Lullaby - 3:28
  3. Free to Go - 3:32
  4. Serge - 4:06
  5. E.Z.L.A. - 5:44
  6. Mechanical Man - 5:23
  7. Kingdom of Lies - 3:47
  8. Gravity Decides - 3:34
  9. Chained to the Moon - 4:53
  10. Merry-Go-Down - 3:24
  11. Someone You Love - 3:21
  12. No Need to Worry - 6:13
  13. Back to the Sunrise - 3:10

Personnel
  • Lou Barlow - bass guitar, drums, vocals
  • John Davis - guitars, drums, vocals

References
  1. "One Part Lullaby Reviews". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Bird, Vic (2000-12-04). "Album Review: The Folk Implosion - One Part Lullaby". Drowned In Sound. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
  4. Hermes, Will (1999-10-08). "One Part Lullaby". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
  5. Rolling Stone'' Review. Google Books. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  6. "One Part Lullaby". NME. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
  7. "The Folk Implosion: One Part Lullaby : Music Reviews". Rolling Stone. 1999-08-05. Archived from the original on 2006-05-08. Retrieved 2017-11-18.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  8. Christgau, Robert (2000-04-25). "Alt Lives!!". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
  9. http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_448_-_lou_barlow
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