Compass is a 2010 album by Jamie Lidell

Jamie Lidell

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, released May 18. It is produced by Lidell and features additional production by Beck

Beck

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, Grizzly Bear

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's Chris Taylor

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, Lindsey Rome and Robbie Lackritz.

Track listing

Written by Jamie Lidell (except where noted)

1. "Completely Exposed" - 3:24
2. "Your Sweet Boom" - 3:13
3. "She Needs Me" - 5:55
4. "I Wanna Be Your Telephone" (Lidell & Snax) - 3:29
5. "Enough's Enough" - 2:55
6. "The Ring" - 3:44
7. "You Are Waking" - 3:42
8. "I Can Love Again" - 2:10
9. "It's a Kiss" - 3:47
10. "Compass" - 5:33
11. "Gypsy Blood" - 2:16
12. "Coma Chameleon" (Lidell & Beck Hansen
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    ) - 3:20
13. "Big Drift" (Lidell, Hansen, Leslie Feist & Lindsey Rome) - 4:45
14. "You See My Light" - 2:09
15. "Completely Exposed - Heavy Ramble", (iTunes Bonus track) - 8:30

A limited "Deluxe Edition" features a bonus CD with the following songs:

1. "Turn It Around"
2. "Lies Inside"
3. "Your Sweet Boom Dub"
4. "Pat's Compass"
5. "Lies Inside Cold Dub"
6. Enhanced: A Video Introduction To Compass

Reception

Compass received generally favorable reviews upon its release, earning a rating of 74 out of 100 on review aggregrator website Metacritic

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.

Credits

• Jamie Lidell: Production, vocals, vocal effects, beat box, synths, moog, piano, drum machine, guitar, tambourine, percussion, drums, mixing

• Bryan Baird (Feist): Shaker, trumpet, French horn, fugel
• Jesse Baird (Feist): Drums, percussion
• Chris Bautista: Trumpet
• Chris Bear (Grizzly Bear): Drums, percussion, tambourine
• Nikka Costa
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  : Vocals
• Matt Demeritt: Tenor sax
• Leslie Feist: Vocals, shouts, percussion, guitar
• James Gadson
  James Gadson
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   (Ray Charles
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  , Marvin Gaye
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  ): Drums, percussion
• Daniel Raymond Gahn: Drums
• Chilly Gonzales: Piano
• Beck Hansen: Production, guitar, Juno synth, vocals
• Robbie Lackritz (Feist): Production
• Brian Lebarton (Beck): Percussion, electronic drums, synth, keys, vocals
• Carlin Nicholson (Zeus
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  ): Bass
• Mike O'Brien (Zeus): Guitar
• David Ralicke: Trombone, sax
• Lindsey Rome: Production, vocals, percussion, design, photos and artwork
• Daniel Rossen
  Daniel Rossen
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   (Grizzly Bear): Guitar
• Dan Rothschild: Bass
• Pat Sansone
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   (Wilco
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  ): Wurlitzer, bass, rhodes, mellotron, percussion, gongs, celeste, vocals, mallets
• Justin Stanley
  Justin Stanley
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  (Beck): Drums, Mexican bass, percussion
• Snax: Vocals, synth
• Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear): Production, mixing, bass, synth, guitar, bass clarinet, flute, sax