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| Released | 2003 | |||
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| Length | 41:40 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | 13 Amp Recordings Records | |||
| Producer | Vincent Cafisco, Tabitha Tindale | |||
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American Whip is the second album by the New York dream pop duo Joy Zipper released in 2003.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Guardian | [3] |
| Uncut | [4] |
| Slant Magazine |  [5] |
| Pitchfork | 7.5/10 [6] |
| IGN | 8.5/10 [7] |
| Drowned in Sound | 5/10 [8] |
The BBC's Richard Banks praised "charming melodies, heart-melting harmonies and hazy lo-fi guitars" forming "an intoxicating alt-pop nectar", noting a formula little-changed from their first album. He also discerned a darker side beneath the "saccharine" surface. [9] Pitchfork rated it 7.5/10, calling it "engaging and sharply-drawn", rejecting deeper meanings. [10] IGN gave it 8.5/10. [11]
Drowned in Sound scored it 5/10, saying "Joy Zipper are the type of band that think shrouding their songs in a sheet of sub-Kevin Shields drone, drugged-up affectations and bastardised Bacharach melodies makes their pedestrian pop sound urgent, vital and 'edgy.' It doesn't." [12] Uncut called it a new My Bloody Valentine album in all but name, scoring it 4/10. [13]
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