Salutations (album)

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Salutations
Salutations (Front Cover).jpg
Studio album by
Conor Oberst
ReleasedMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
Genre Folk, folk rock, Americana
Length67:20
Label Nonesuch
Producer Jim Keltner, Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst chronology
Ruminations
(2016)		Salutations
(2017)		 Better Oblivion Community Center
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.5/10 [1]
Metacritic 81/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [4]
The Irish Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Pitchfork 6.6/10 [8]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Uncut 8/10 [11]
Vice A− [12]

Salutations is the eighth solo studio album by American musician Conor Oberst, released on March 17, 2017 on Nonesuch Records. [13] Ten of the tracks originally appeared on Ruminations in acoustic form.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Conor Oberst, except as indicated.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Too Late to Fixate" 4:01
2."Gossamer Thin" 3:33
3."Overdue"Conor Oberst and James Felice3:48
4."Afterthought" 3:35
5."Next of Kin" 3:40
6."Napalm" 4:57
7."Mamah Borthwick (A Sketch)" 4:14
8."Till St. Dymphna Kicks Us Out" 3:59
9."Barbary Coast (Later)" 4:27
10."Tachycardia" 3:25
11."Empty Hotel by the Sea" 4:23
12."Anytime Soon"Oberst, Johnathan Rice, Taylor Goldsmith and Jonathan Wilson2:51
13."Counting Sheep" 3:27
14."The Rain Follows the Plow" 3:41
15."You All Loved Him Once" 4:26
16."A Little Uncanny" 4:56
17."Salutations" 3:57
Total length:1:07:20

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [14] 58
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [15] 86
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [16] 166
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [17] 82
Scottish Albums (OCC) [18] 46
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [19] 89
UK Albums (OCC) [20] 91
US Billboard 200 [21] 137

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