All at Once (The Airborne Toxic Event album)

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All at Once
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 26, 2011
Genre Alternative rock, indie rock
Length43:49
Label Island Records
Producer Dave Sardy
The Airborne Toxic Event chronology
The Airborne Toxic Event
(2008)
All at Once
(2011)
Such Hot Blood
(2013)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 59/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [3]
Melodic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [4]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]

All at Once is the second studio album by American indie-rock band The Airborne Toxic Event. The album was released on April 26, 2011, by Island Records.

Contents

Content

The band contrasted the material on the album with the material on its first album, which songwriter Mikel Jollett described as consisting entirely of "sad songs about girls." All at Once, by contrast, contains "only three sad songs about girls." The material features expanded use of keyboards and is louder in many parts, but also contains acoustic songs. [8] All the songs were described as autobiographical except "Welcome to Your Wedding Day," which was penned in response to the Deh Bala wedding party bombing. "All those people died and then everyone was on the news like, 'I don't understand why they don't appreciate our presence,'" Jollett said. "That's not really autobiographical as much as it is about how it's stupid to think people would be thankful for you bombing them." [9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Mikel Jollett, except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."All at Once"5:16
2."Numb" (Jollett, Noah Harmon)4:06
3."Changing"3:20
4."All for a Woman"3:45
5."It Doesn’t Mean a Thing"2:08
6."The Kids are Ready to Die"4:11
7."Welcome to Your Wedding Day" (Jollett, Harmon)3:42
8."Half of Something Else" (Jollett, Harmon)4:39
9."Strange Girl" (Jollett, Harmon)3:24
10."All I Ever Wanted" (Jollett, Steven Chen)4:18
11."The Graveyard Near the House"4:55
Bonus Tracks
No.TitleLength
12."This Losing" (Barnes and Noble Exclusive)3:45
13."The Kids are Ready to Die (Alternate Mix)" (Deluxe Version Digital Exclusive)4:27
14."Tokyo Radio" (Deluxe Version iTunes Exclusive)2:39
15."Parson Redheads" (iTunes Pre-Order Only)2:29
16."Haile" (Deluxe Version Amazon Exclusive)3:41

Personnel

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