Tyranny is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Voidz (marketed as Julian Casablancas + The Voidz), recorded at Labyrinth, NYC and released on September 23, 2014 through the Cult label.[5] The first single from the album, the 11-minute track "Human Sadness", was released on September 2, 2014. The music video for the second single "Where No Eagles Fly" was directed by guitarist Jeramy "Beardo" Gritter.[4] On September 19, Tyranny was made available to stream on the websites of Rolling Stone and Pitchfork.

Tyranny
Studio album by Julian Casablancas + The Voidz
Released	September 23, 2014
Recorded	2013–14
Studio	Labyrinth, NYC[1]
Genre	Electronica[2] progressive rock[2]
Length	62:25
Label	Cult
Producer	Shawn Everett
The Voidz chronology
Tyranny (2014) Virtue (2018)
Alternate album cover
Singles from Tyranny
"Human Sadness" Released: September 2, 2014[3] "Where No Eagles Fly" Released: September 9, 2014[4]

The album was placed 50th in NME's "Top 50 Albums of 2014" list.[6]

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	66/100[7]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
Clash	(7/10)[9]
Consequence	Favorable[10]
Drowned in Sound	(9.75/10)[11]
Exclaim!	(8/10)[12]
The Line of Best Fit	(6.5/10)[13]
NME	(6/10)[14]
Paste	(6/10)[15]
Pitchfork	(4.9/10)[16]
Rolling Stone	[17]

Overall, the album had a mixed reception. Rolling Stone gave the album 3.5 stars, calling it "the sound of a man shedding his skin. Not pretty, but more compelling for it."[17] Paste gave it 6.0,[15] while Exclaim! gave it 8 out of 10, calling it "a seriously sad album...compelling."[12] Lucas Villa of AXS awarded four out of five stars, writing, "Casablancas continues to exercise his experimental muscle in the most raucous ways with The Voidz in tow."[18] Benji Taylor of Clash gave the album 7/10, calling it "a weirdly wonderful mesh of awkward time signatures, unconventional song structures and, in general, unbridled madness".[9] Pitchfork was among the most negative of the reviewers, giving the album a 4.9 and calling it unlistenable and a failure.

GQ printed in a 2014 interview with Casablancas entitled, "Julian Casablancas Is Done Trying to Save You",

The record's called Tyranny, and that's sort of what it's about, Casablancas says: rapacious oil companies and a not-so-free press and environmental depredation. Money. Health care. Nightmares. The moon. "It's not very sexy to talk about these things, especially in a place like America, where things are, like, the best. But it just feels like we’re inside that Versailles bubble, you know?"[19]

Track listing

Personnel

• Julian Casablancas – vocals
• Jeramy "Beardo" Gritter – guitar
• Amir Yaghmai – guitar
• Jacob "Jake" Bercovici – bass guitar, synthesizers
• Alex Carapetis – drums, percussion
• Jeff Kite – keyboards

Production and others

• Shawn Everett – production, mixing
• Ryan Fagman – additional engineering on "Dare I Care", "Xerox", "Nintendo Blood" and "Crunch Punch"
• J. P. Bowersock – guru for "Crunch Punch", "Human Sadness" and "Take Me in Your Army"
• Mike Bloom – additional guitar on "Dare I Care"
• Brian Gardner – mastering at Bernie Grundman Mastering, LA
• Dave Kutch – additional mastering at The Mastering Palace, NYC
• Emily Lazar – additional mastering at The Lodge, NYC
• Warren Fu – artwork
• Liz Hirsch – artwork
• Sam Adoquei – "The Visit of Govindu" artwork
• El Teneen – "Chessboard" artwork
• Richard Priest – management crew
• Lysee Webb – management crew
• Jack Rovner – management crew

Charts

References

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