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Familial is the debut solo studio album by the English musician Philip Selway, best known as the drummer of the rock band Radiohead. It was released on 30 August 2010 in the United Kingdom and received mainly positive reviews.

Familial
Studio album by Philip Selway
Released	30 August 2010
Recorded	2001 (2001)–2010 (2010)
Genre	Folk rock[1]
Length	32:43
Label	Bella Union
Producer	Ian Davenport
Philip Selway chronology
Familial (2010) Running Blind (2011)

Music

Familiar contains ten tracks written by Selway, with contributions from various musicians.[2][3] Selway performed acoustic guitar and vocals; Pitchfork described the album as a collection of "hushed folk songs" in the tradition of the English singer-songwriter Nick Drake.[4]

On 1 July 2010, Selway streamed the opening track from the album, "By Some Miracle", from his website, and offered a free high-quality download of the track via e-mail.[5]

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	66/100[6]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[7]
BBC	(favourable) [8]
Drowned In Sound	5/10[9]
BLARE	[10]
Pitchfork Media	(4.9/10) [11]
One Thirty BPM	(68%) [12]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Familial has a score of 66, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[6]

Andy Kellman of Allmusic complimented the album's lyrics saying they "soothed rather than seethed" and wrote that "subtle, touching albums like this should be made more often".[7] A mixed review from Pitchfork described Familial as a "modest, mannered record that prizes directness, simplicity and bittersweet sentiment above all, sometimes successfully, sometimes not".[11]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"By Some Miracle"	2:37
2.	"Beyond Reason"	2:52
3.	"A Simple Life"	3:14
4.	"All Eyes on You"	2:31
5.	"The Ties That Bind Us"	3:41
6.	"Patron Saint"	3:27
7.	"Falling"	3:13
8.	"Broken Promises"	3:01
9.	"Don't Look Down"	5:03
10.	"The Witching Hour"	2:54
Total length:		32:33

iTunes & Japan Bonus Tracks

No.	Title	Length
11.	"Running Blind"	4:13
12.	"What Goes Around (Demo)"

Personnel

• Philip Selway
• Lisa Germano
• Sebastian Steinberg
• Glenn Kotche
• Pat Sansone

References

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Familial — дебютный сольный студийный альбом английского музыканта Филипа Селуэя, барабанщика альтернативной рок-группы Radiohead. Выпущен 30 августа 2010 года в Великобритании. Альбом содержит десять треков, написанных Селуэем, и совместные работы с другими музыкантами[8][9].

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