The Only She Chapters was released by Warp on April 25, 2011.[2] After the release of The Only She Chapters, his eighth album for Warp, the label informed Herren that it would not be releasing any more of his work, ending his relationship with the label.[3]Exclaim! stated that the release of The Only She Chapters alienated a large portion of Herren's fanbase. Herren stated that the album was him wanting to do something different and that he went through a stage in his career where he wanted to do something completely different, and that on "looking back at it, I should have just done it under a different name [laughs]. It really didn't make much sense now that I think about it, it's like 'Damn, I easily could've called this something else and let be its own thing,' because I feel like I unintentionally alienated a lot of my fans that just wanted to hear what I normally do as Prefuse. That, for me, is my biggest regret about it. It's not that I regret the music, I just should have catalogued it differently."[4]
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 68, interpreted as "generally favourable", based on 16 reviews.[5]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Guillermo S. Herren[9] except where otherwise noted
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
1.
"The Only Recollection of Where Life Stopped"
2.
"The Only Valentine's Day Failure"
3.
"The Only Contact She's Willing to Give" (featuring Faidherbe)
Guillermo S. Herren, Clémence Fichard
4.
"The Only Chamber Resolve"
5.
"The Only Hand to Hold" (featuring Shara Worden)
Herren, Shara Worden
6.
"The Only Thief to Steal Tonality"
7.
"The Only Trial of 9000 Suns" (featuring Trish Keenan)
Herren, Trish Keenan
8.
"The Only Way to Find" (featuring Nico Turner)
Herren, Turner
9.
"The Only Test to Score"
10.
"The Only Boogie Down" (featuring Niki Randa)
Herren, Nicole A. Randa
11.
"The Only Direction in Concrete" (featuring Zola Jesus)
Herren, Nika Roza Danilova
12.
"The Only Recollection of How Things Change" (featuring Faidherbe)
13.
"The Only Guitar to Die Alone" (featuring Adron)
Herren, Adrienne McCann
14.
"The Only Serenidad"
15.
"The Only Lillies and Lilacs"
16.
"The Only Lillies And Lilacs Pt. 2" (featuring Faidherbe)
^ ab"Inside sleeve". The Only She Chapters (Media notes). Prefuse 73. Warp. 2011. WARPCD208.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)