Plateau Vision

Plateau Vision is a solo studio album by Lushlife.^[3] It was released on Western Vinyl on April 17, 2012.^[4] It includes guest appearances from Styles P, Heems, Shad, and Cities Aviv.^[5] Music videos were created for "Still I Hear the Word Progress"^[6][7] and "Magnolia".^[8][9]

Plateau Vision
Studio album by Lushlife
Released	April 17, 2012 (2012-04-17)
Genre	Hip hop
Length	43:55
Label	Western Vinyl
Producer	Lushlife Botany Mark Saddlemire Big Jerm
Lushlife chronology
No More Golden Days (2011) Plateau Vision (2012) Ritualize (2016)
Singles from Plateau Vision
"Still I Hear the Word Progress" Released: March 6, 2012[1][2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	79/100[10]
Review scores
Source	Rating
HipHopDX	4.0/5[11]
Pitchfork	6.9/10[12]
PopMatters	[13]
Spin	8/10[14]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[10]

Jake Paine of HipHopDX gave the album a 4.0 out of 5, saying: "The artist knows he might not fit into the musical worlds that influenced him, but he pays homage to them without sacrificing much of his own dignity."^[11] Hari Ashurst of Pitchfork wrote, "there's enough of a sweet spot in the clean, backward-leaning production and offbeat samples to allow the record to distinguish itself as more than a sum of disparate parts."^[12]

Rhapsody placed it at number 8 on the "Top 20 Hip-Hop Albums of 2012" list.^[15] Stereogum placed it at number 25 on the "Top 40 Rap Albums of 2012" list.^[16]

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Magnolia"	Lushlife	4:47
2.	"Still I Hear the Word Progress" (featuring Styles P)	Lushlife	5:18
3.	"The Romance of the Telescope" (featuring Andrew Cedermark)	Lushlife	4:52
4.	"Big Sur"	Botany	3:22
5.	"Glistening" (featuring STS)	Lushlife	2:34
6.	"Gymnopedie 1.2" (featuring Shad)	Lushlife	2:15
7.	"Anthem"	Lushlife Mark Saddlemire	4:26
8.	"Hale-Bopp Was the Bedouins" (featuring Heems)	Botany	3:50
9.	"She's a Buddhist, I'm a Cubist" (featuring Cities Aviv)	Lushlife Big Jerm	3:28
10.	"Progress (Sun Glitters Reprise)" (featuring Ryat)	Lushlife	4:33
11.	"Stakk Cheddar Galore, Alwyn Dias"	Lushlife	4:30
Total length:			43:55