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Metacritic	69/100
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AllMusic
Clash	6/10
DIY	9/10
Drowned in Sound	8/10
The Guardian
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NME	5/10
Pitchfork Media	6.0/10
Slant Magazine
The Times

Nocturnes is the second studio album by English singer and songwriter Little Boots. It was released on 3 May 2013 on her record label On Repeat Records. Featuring production from DFA's Tim Goldsworthy, Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford and Hercules and Love Affair's Andy Butler, the album "celebrates 90s house, seventies disco and futuristic electronics". According to Little Boots, the record is titled Nocturnes because it is "an album indebted to the night".

Upon release, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics. Nocturnes debuted at number 45 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 2,465 copies in its first week.

Little Boots first revealed plans for her second album during an interview with Artistdirect on 1 March 2010, stating it would be "rawer and a bit more down-to-earth. It'll still be magical, but quite dark and spooky at the same time." On 1 May 2011, Little Boots performed at the China Music Valley International Music Festival in Beijing, where she debuted the track "Crescendo". On 20 October 2011, she released a mixtape titled Shake Until Your Heart Breaks, which featured the single "Shake". She released her third mixtape, Into the Future, on 9 March 2012, containing a remix of the single "Every Night I Say a Prayer".

In an interview with DIY on 12 December 2012, Little Boots revealed that she was putting the finishing touches to her second album, commenting, "I feel a lot more at peace about where I'm at creatively as an artist now than a year or so ago [...] I think everyone is always nervous releasing anything they've created into the world, but I've realized what I want to do and how I can achieve it, rather than trying to please other people." Sonically, she stated the album "definitely feels more representative of me of an artist, at least now in 2012. It's less 80s synth pop influenced, it's quite an upbeat album, which I think has stemmed from the fact I have been DJing a lot, and listening to a lot of dance music."

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