Mind Bokeh

Mind Bokeh is a studio album by British electronic musician Bibio, released on Warp. It was released on 29 March 2011 in the United States and 4 April 2011 in the rest of the world.^[13] Bibio described the album as a "balance of the familiar and the non-familiar".^[14] The title comes from a Japanese word "Bokeh", which means the blurry, out-of-focus part of a photograph.^[13]

Mind Bokeh
Studio album by Bibio
Released	29 March 2011 (2011-03-29)
Genre	Folktronica[1] indie pop alternative R&B
Length	52:21
Label	Warp
Producer	Stephen James Wilkinson
Bibio chronology
The Apple and the Tooth (2009) Mind Bokeh (2011) Silver Wilkinson (2013)
Singles from Mind Bokeh
"Excuses" Released: 2011 "K Is for Kelson" Released: 2011 "T.O.Y.S. (Take Off Your Shirt)" Released: 2011

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	75/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
BBC Music	favorable[4]
Clash	8/10[5]
MusicOMH	[6]
Pitchfork	6.9/10[7]
PopMatters	[8]
Resident Advisor	3.5/5[9]
The Skinny	[10]
Slant Magazine	[11]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[12]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75% based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[2]

Clash named it the 24th best album of 2011.^[15]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Excuses"	5:58
2.	"Pretentious"	6:02
3.	"Anything New"	4:07
4.	"Wake Up!"	3:25
5.	"Light Seep"	3:53
6.	"Take Off Your Shirt"	4:04
7.	"Artists' Valley"	6:00
8.	"K Is for Kelson"	3:28
9.	"Mind Bokeh"	2:33
10.	"More Excuses"	4:27
11.	"Feminine Eye"	1:50
12.	"Saint Christopher"	6:34
Total length:		52:21

All tracks are written by Stephen James Wilkinson.

Japanese edition bonus track

No.	Title	Length
13.	"Vertical Helical Stan"	2:24
Total length:		54:45

Charts

Chart	Peak position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[16]	6
UK Albums Chart[17]	195
UK Indie Chart[18]	33