Telas
{{Short description|2020 studio album by Nicolas Jaar}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2022}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Telas
| type = studio
| artist = Nicolás Jaar
| cover = Nicolas Jaar Telas Cover.png
| border = yes
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|2020|07|17}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 58:41
| label = Other People
| producer = Nicolás Jaar
| prev_title = Cenizas
| prev_year = 2020
| next_title = Intiha
| next_year = 2023
}}
Telas ({{translation|Canvases}}) is the fourth studio album by American musician Nicolás Jaar. It was released on July 17, 2020, by Other People.{{cite web |url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/05/nicolas-jaar-telas-telahora-stream |title=Nicolas Jaar Announces New Album Telas, Shares "Telahora": Stream |work=Consequence of Sound |date=May 26, 2020 |access-date=June 1, 2020 |author=Kaye, Ben}}
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
| MC = 74/100{{cite web|title=Telas by Nicolas Jaar Reviews and Tracks|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/telas/nicolas-jaar|access-date=February 17, 2022|website=Metacritic}}
| rev1 = BPM
| rev1score = 77%{{cite web|last=Hakimian|first=Rob|date=July 23, 2020|title=Album Review: Nicolas Jaar – Telas|url=https://beatsperminute.com/album-review-nicolas-jaar-telas|access-date=February 17, 2022|website=BPM}}
| rev2 = Exclaim!
| rev2score = 9/10{{cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/nicolas_jaar_telas_album_review|title=Nicolás Jaar's 'Telas' Is a Cosmic Voyage Through an Ambient Universe|website=Exclaim!|date=2020-07-14|access-date=2020-07-18|last=Amen|first=John}}
| rev3 = NME
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/nicolas-jaar-telas-album-review-2710067|title=Nicolás Jaar – 'Telas' album review|website=NME|date=2020-07-18|access-date=2020-07-18|last=Krol|first=Charlotte}}
| rev4 = Pitchfork
| rev4score = 7.5/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/nicolas-jaar-telas/|website=Pitchfork|date=2020-07-20|access-date=2020-07-26|last=Felsenthal|first=Daniel|title=Nicolás Jaar: Telas}}
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In a review for Pitchfork, Daniel Felsenthal said, "Telas is a taut, exhaustively balanced work, although its four long songs add up to an hour of music. In the context of Jaar’s busy year, it signifies a continued blurring of his various roles—DJ, ambient craftsman, distinctive vocalist with an electronic toolkit—and the album’s deliberate structure and ominous mood indicate that Jaar can make direct, even political statements without sung lyrics or speech samples." John Amen of Exclaim! said "Telas brings to mind nascent stars and galaxies, protean adaptations, and ever-expanding space. The album's complex design and diverse instrumentation are consistently sublime, the venture no less than a musical inquiry into the attributes of being itself."
Track listing
All tracks are written by Nicolas Jaar.{{cite web|title=Credits / Telas / Nicolas Jaar|url=https://listen.tidal.com/album/144718491/credits|url-access=registration|access-date=17 February 2022|publisher=Tidal}}
{{Track listing
| title1 = Telahora
| length1 = 16:16
| title2 = Telencima
| length2 = 15:09
| title3 = Telahumo
| length3 = 14:20
| title4 = Telallás
| length4 = 12:56
| total_length = 58:41
}}
Album art
The album art was created by Somnath Bhatt and the website was built by Abeera Kamran.{{cite web|url=https://nicolasjaar.bandcamp.com/album/telas |title=Telas | Nicolas Jaar |publisher=Nicolasjaar.bandcamp.com |date= |accessdate=2022-05-04}}
References
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