America Give Up

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America Give Up
America Give Up.jpg
Studio album by Howler
Released EU: January 16, 2012[1]
USA: January 17, 2012[1]
Genre Indie rock,[2] surf rock,[2] garage rock
Length 31.09
Label Rough Trade
Producer Chris Heidman
Howler chronology
This One's Different
(2011)This One's Different2011		 America Give Up
(2012)		 World Of Joy
(2014)World Of Joy2014
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[3]
The A.V. Club B [4]
BBC favourable[5]
The Fly 4/5 stars[6]
The Guardian 4/5 stars[7]
musicOMH 4/5 stars[8]
NME 8/10 stars [9]
Q Magazine 4/5 stars[10]
Pitchfork 6/10 stars[11]

America Give Up is the debut studio album by American indie rock[2][12] band Howler. The album was released on January 16, 2012 by Rough Trade Records.

On NME's top 50 albums of 2012, America Give Up was listed at #20.

Track listing

All songs written by Howler (band), except track 9 written by Howler and Steve Cruze.

No. Title Length
1. "Beach Sluts"   3:09
2. "Back to the Grave"   2:12
3. "This One's Different"   2:33
4. "America"   2:57
5. "Too Much Blood"   4:06
6. "Wailing (Making Out)"   2:01
7. "Pythagorean Fearem"   2:27
8. "Told You Once"   2:53
9. "Back of Your Neck"   3:42
10. "Free Drunk"   3:27
11. "Black Lagoon"   2:29
Total length:
 31:50

Music Videos

The video for "Back of Your Neck" was released on YouTube under RoughTradeRecordsUK's account. It clocks at 3:11. The video mainly shows Howler "mucking about" in Minneapolis, filmed by a quite grainy camera. The only other really different scene is of Howler playing the song in a studio, mainly concentrating on Jordan. This footage seems to be made for the actual promo. There is a behind the scenes video on NME.com that was released before the actual video for "Back of Your Neck" It was directed by Robert Semmer and despite the fact that it was the shortened, edited, version of the song, the lyrics "but both of them fucking died" and "smoking as high as a crackpot" are uncensored.

Charts

Charts (2012) Peak
position
US Billboard Heatseekers[13] 30

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Howler - America Give Up (Official site)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ All Music Guide review
  4. ↑ The A.V. Club review
  5. ↑ bbc review
  6. ↑ The Fly review
  7. ↑ The Guardian review
  8. ↑ musicomh review
  9. ↑ NME review
  10. ↑ Feb. 2012 p. 107 — Q Magazine review
  11. ↑ [1]
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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