Bloody Lovely

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Bloody Lovely
Bloody Lovely Artwork, DZ Deathrays.jpg
Studio album by
Released2 February 2018
StudioSydney, Australia
Genre Dance-punk, post-punk revival, alternative rock
Length37:08
Label I Oh You (AUS)
Producer Burke Reid
DZ Deathrays chronology
Black Rat
(2014)
Bloody Lovely
(2018)
Positive Rising: Vol. 1
(2019)
Singles from Bloody Lovely
  1. "Shred for Summer"
    Released: 2 August 2017
  2. "Bad Influence"
    Released: 23 September 2017
  3. "Total Meltdown"
    Released: 1 November 2017
  4. "Like People"
    Released: 5 February 2018
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 63/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Bloody Lovely is the third studio album by Australian Dance-punk band DZ Deathrays. [4] It was released on I Oh You Records in February 2018. Australian radio station Triple J picked Bloody Lovely as their feature album of the week in February 2018. [5] The music video for "Like People" featured one of the original members of The Wiggles, Murray Cook. [6] It was nominated at the 2018 ARIA Music Awards for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album but lost to Parkway Drive for Reverence.

Contents

Reception

The album was met with generally favourable reviews. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album has an average score of 63 based on 5 reviews. [1] The lead single "Shred for Summer" placed within Triple J's Hottest 100, 2017 at no. 67 [7] while the single "Total Meltdown" just missed out placing no. 109 within the Hottest 200 of 2017. [8] On 18 February, the album peaked at No. 4 on the ARIA Charts and remained there for a total of two weeks. [9]

Track listing

All music is composed by DZ Deathrays (Shane Parsons, Simon Ridley), except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Shred for Summer" 4:00
2."Total Meltdown" 3:05
3."Feeling Good, Feeling Great" 3:19
4."Like People" 4:02
5."High" 3:25
6."Guillotine" 2:11
7."Bad Influence" 1:11
8."Over It"
  • Parsons
  • Ridley
  • David Novak
3:30
9."Back & Forth" 3:18
10."Afterglow" 3:31
11."Witchcraft Pt. II" 5:36
Total length:37:08

Personnel

DZ Deathrays

Production

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [9] 4

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