Welcome Strangers

This article is about the Modern Studies album. For other uses, see Welcome Stranger (disambiguation).

Welcome Strangers is the second studio album by the Scottish chamber pop band Modern Studies, released on 18 May 2018 by Fire Records.^[3]

Welcome Strangers
Studio album by Modern Studies
Released	18 May 2018 (2018-05-18)
Studio	Forteviot Hall Pumpkinfield
Genre	Chamber pop indie folk indie pop indie rock
Length	40:43
Label	Fire
Modern Studies chronology
Swell to Great (2016) Welcome Strangers (2018) Emergent Slow Arcs (2019)
Singles from Welcome Strangers
"Mud and Flame" Released: 23 February 2018[1] "Disco" Released: 11 May 2018[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	86/100[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
The Skinny	[6]

Welcome Strangers was met with universal acclaim reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 86, based on 6 reviews.^[4]

Track listing

Welcome Strangers track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Get Back Down"	4:21
2.	"Disco"	4:39
3.	"Mud and Flame"	5:16
4.	"Let Idle Hands"	3:12
5.	"It's Winter"	3:31
6.	"Young Sun"	3:31
7.	"Horns and Trumpets"	4:01
8.	"Fast As Flows"	3:23
9.	"The House"	3:57
10.	"Phosphene Dream"	4:52
Total length:		40:43