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Geography (Tom Misch album)

album by Tom Misch

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ59297223
Source-derived summary

Geography is the debut studio album by English musician Tom Misch. It was self-released on 6 April 2018 through Misch's own label Beyond the Groove.

Critical reception

Geography has received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 73, based on 11 reviews.

Track listing

Notes

"Before Paris" contains a spoken word sample from a 2011 interview with jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove.

"Isn't She Lovely" is a cover of the song of the same name by Stevie Wonder.

"Man Like You" is a cover of the song of the same name by Patrick Watson.

"Water Baby" contains a sample of "My Lady", written by Wilton Felder and performed by The Crusaders.

South of the River includes a sample from Lady by D'Angelo

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

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The public source identifies “Geography (Tom Misch album)” as album by Tom Misch. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Geography, Misch and album.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2018-04-06. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Geography, Misch and album providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q59297223. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from Geography (Tom Misch album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.