Days (album)

The album was recorded over the course of five months in a remote New Paltz, New York barn with Kevin McMahon as the producer, except for Out of Tune, which was recorded by Jarvis Taveniere at Rear House in Brooklyn, New York.[2] The album was subsequently mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound in New York City.

A video for the lead track "Easy" was released through Funny or Die and directed by Tom Scharpling.[3]

The artwork for the album uses a 1966 photograph entitled "Row of New Tract Houses," which features a tract housing in Bayonne, New Jersey. The photograph is from conceptual artist Dan Graham's 1967 photographic collection Homes for America.[4]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.5/10[5]
Metacritic	77/100[6]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
The A.V. Club	A[8]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[9]
The Guardian	[10]
Mojo	[11]
NME	7/10[12]
Pitchfork	8.7/10[13]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[15]
Spin	7/10[16]

Days received largely positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 32 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[6] Pitchfork labeled it "Best New Music".

The album was recognized as #13 on The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far list by Pitchfork in August 2014.[17]

On their "Top 50 Albums of 2011" lists, Pitchfork placed it at number 9, Q and Uncut placed it at number 24,[18][19] and Paste placed it at number 47.[20]

All tracks are written by Martin Courtney, except where noted.