"Operator"
Released: September 25, 2015
"House of Seven Swords"
Released: November 18, 2015
"Nothing Where Something Used to Be (Steve Osborne Remix)"
Released: April 8, 2016

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Boston Globe	Positive
Glide Magazine	8/10
Paste	7.9/10
Pitchfork	7.8/10
PopMatters	8/10
Rolling Stone

October 23, 2015 (North America)

Liberman is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton, released on October 23, 2015, through Dine Alone Records. It is the follow up to Carlton's 2011 album Rabbits on the Run and marks her first release since signing with Dine Alone Records. The title of the album comes from an oil painting made by Carlton's late grandfather, whose given surname was Liberman.

Following the 2011 release Rabbits on the Run, Carlton took time off to get married, start a family, and write another album. She tells CBS News that these changes in her life are reflected in Liberman's songs, and that she "wanted the whole album to feel like an escape type of album, where you put it on and you feel like you're in this dreamy state."

To avoid preconceived notions, demos recorded were sent to Dine Alone Records without Carlton's name attached. Label president Joel Carriere says of hearing the demos:

The songs were amazing, it was atmospheric, it kind of fit into what we're all into ... and we never would have guessed it was Vanessa Carlton because her voice has developed so much since her pop songs 14 years ago and the songwriting had obviously changed. We were, like: "Yeah, we want to do this. But what is it we're doing?"

In support of the album, Carlton embarked on the "Liberman" tour throughout portions of the United States and Canada in the fall of 2015 and winter of 2016. Special guest on the tour was Joshua Hyslop. The tour continued in the UK and Europe in the spring of 2016.

The first single, "Operator", was released for digital download on September 25, 2015. A music video for the single, directed by Daniel Henry, was released on October 13, 2015. According to Carlton, the video shows the classic tale of children running away reversed, so instead the parents are running away. The second single, "House of Seven Swords", was released for digital download. Since Liberman was already released, it was not released separately, like "Operator", but it was made a single on November 18, 2015. Daniel Henry also directed a music video for "House of Seven Swords" which was released the same day as the single and shows shows Carlton playing piano and singing the song at home in Nashville. The Wall Street Journal writes of the video:

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