Turn Off the Light (album)

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This article is about the Kim Petras album. For other albums and EPs, see Turn Off the Light (disambiguation).
Turn Off the Light
File:Kim Petras - Turn Off the Light.png
Studio album by Kim Petras
Released 1 October 2019 (2019-10-01)
Recorded 2018–2019
Genre
Length 48:58
Language
  • English
  • German
Label
Producer
Kim Petras chronology
Clarity
(2019)		 Turn Off the Light
(2019)		 Slut Pop
(2022)

Turn Off the Light is the debut studio album and second full-length album by German singer Kim Petras.[4][5] It was released on 1 October 2019 and originally through her own label, BunHead. The album was originally supposed to be released in two volumes, Turn Off the Light, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 – although it was ultimately released as a full-length studio album comprising the eight songs from the first volume and nine new songs recorded for the second volume.[6]

Turn Off the Light received positive reviews from music critics, who praised its production, lyricism, themes and Petras' vocal performance. On October 23, 2020, Petras announced that she would be releasing a third and final Turn Off the Light volume in October 2021. She shared that the reason for the release date was her desire to perform the songs live for her fans upon release, something she couldn't do if it was released in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. "I can't do it if I can't perform it live for you guys, immediately. I have to. It needs to be fresh, and there's a bunch of stuff I want to do to make it really epic." Petras released the single "Party Till I Die" immediately following the announcement of the third installment.[7]

Background

After the release of Turn Off the Light, Vol. 1, Petras initially announced Turn Off the Light, Vol. 2,[6] and even as late as early September 2019, said the follow-up EP would be arriving on 1 October.[5] Instead, on 29 September, Petras announced that she was giving fans "the whole damn story", posting a pre-order link and track list for the compilation album.[4][8]

Critical reception

Turn Off the Light received positive reviews from music critics, who praised its production, lyricism, themes and Petras' vocal performance. Writing for Billboard, Stephen Daw wrote that the album "maintains the club-infused production of the album's first volume", and pointed out that the tracks "There Will Be Blood", "Wrong Turn" and "Death by Sex" sounded "like Daft Punk deep cuts imbued with demonic synths and blood-curling beats".[9] MTV News' Trey Alston noted songs such as "There Will Be Blood", calling the track "an electrifying slice of Petras singing about your demise", alongside "Bloody Valentine", describing the track as an "awesome midnight funk that could get even Frankenstein onto the dance floor", together with "Omen", a "cheery and sinister" song that "sounds like the excitement that vampires get as they stare at exposed necks in the middle of the club".[10]

Writing for Paper magazine, Michael Love Michael praised "Wrong Turn", writing that the "music is appropriately adventurous: a dark, bouncy synthline and Petras' quivering vocal performance keeps momentum going, like victims running from a masked killer".[11] In separate article, Michael said that the newer sounds were "scarier" as they incorporated "familiar sonic tropes like thunder, dramatic organ, haunted children's choirs, mutated screams, and more unexpected sounds, like knives scraping against each other".[12] Idolator's Mike Nied gave the album 4.5 out of 5 stars, writing that it was "tailor-made for fans of tightly produced pop bangers and all things fright-inducing".[13]

The song "Party Till I Die" was included on Billboard's list of the best LGBTQ songs of 2020.[14]

Track listing

Turn Off the Light – Standard edition
No. Title Producer(s) Length
1. "Purgatory"  
2:08
2. "There Will Be Blood"  
  • Made in China
  • Oliver
  • Joseph
 3:17
3. "Bloody Valentine"  
  • Made in China
  • Oliver
 2:41
4. "Wrong Turn"  
  • Made in China
  • Oliver
  • Joseph
 3:20
5. "Demons"  
  • Made in China
  • Oliver
 1:57
6. "Massacre"  
  • Made in China
  • Joseph
 3:26
7. "Knives"  
  • Made in China
  • Oliver
 2:20
8. "Death by Sex"  
  • Made in China
  • Joseph
  • B Ham
 3:22
9. "Omen"  
  • Made in China
  • Oliver
 1:39
10. "Close Your Eyes"  
  • Made in China
  • Joseph
 3:55
11. "Transylvania"  
  • Made in China
  • Oliver
 2:59
12. "Turn Off the Light" (featuring Elvira, Mistress of the Dark)
  • Made in China
  • Joseph
 3:11
13. "Tell Me It's a Nightmare"  
  • Made in China
  • Joseph
 4:08
14. "I Don't Wanna Die..."  
  • Made in China
  • Oliver
 2:06
15. "In the Next Life"  
  • Made in China
  • Oliver
  • Joseph
 3:44
16. "Boo! Bitch!"  
  • Made in China
  • Oliver
 1:21
17. "Everybody Dies"  
  • Made in China
  • Joseph
 3:24
Total length:
 48:58

Template:Track Listing

Notes
  • "Demons" is stylised as "<demons>".
  • "Omen" is stylised as "o m e n" on this album and as "O m E N" on Turn Off the Light, Vol. 1.
  • "Transylvania" is stylised as "TRANSylvania".
  • "I Don't Wanna Die..." is stylised in sentence case on some platforms and in all lowercase on others.
  • "Party Till I Die" was released on October 23, 2020.
  • With the release of "Party Till I Die" the styling of songs like "Omen" now reflect their stylization on Vol 1 as opposed to the album stylization.

Charts

Chart performance for Turn Off the Light
Chart (2019–2020) Peak
position
US Top Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[15] 14
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[16] 42
84

Release history

Release dates and formats for Turn Off the Light
Region Date Format Version Label
Various 1 October 2019
Original Bunhead
23 October 2020 Reissue
30 October 2020
Original

References

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  15. ↑ "Illegal name entered Kim Petras/Kim+Petras/chart?f=324 Kim Petras – Chart history" Billboard Top Heatseekers Albums for Kim Petras. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
  16. ↑ "Illegal name entered Kim Petras/Kim+Petras/chart?f=326 Kim Petras – Chart history" Billboard Independent Albums for Kim Petras. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
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