Brave Faces Everyone

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Brave Faces Everyone
Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone.png
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 7, 2020 (2020-02-07)
Genre
Length40:25
Label Pure Noise
Spanish Love Songs chronology
Schmaltz
(2018)
Brave Faces Everyone
(2020)
Brave Faces, Etc.
(2022)
Singles from Brave Faces Everyone
  1. "Losers"
    Released: April 26, 2019
  2. "Kick"
    Released: January 6, 2020
  3. "Beachfront Property"
    Released: February 7, 2020

Brave Faces Everyone is the third studio album by American rock band Spanish Love Songs. It was released on February 7, 2020 under Pure Noise. [3] The album was greeted with widespread acclaim by music critics, with a weighted score of 86 on review aggregator website Metacritic. [4]

Contents

On April 15, 2022, a reimagining of Brave Faces Everyone, titled Brave Faces, Etc., was released. It featured alternate and more electronic [5] versions of the songs from Brave Faces Everyone.

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 21 on Vinyl Albums chart and No. 61 on the Top Album Sales chart with 2000 copies sold. [6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 86/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
Exclaim! 8/10 [7]
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PopMatters 8/10 [9]
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At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 86, based on 5 reviews. [4]

Track listing

Brave Faces Everyone track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Routine Pain"4:23
2."Self-Destruction (As a Sensible Career Choice)"2:59
3."Generation Loss"4:26
4."Kick"4:02
5."Beachfront Property"4:07
6."Losers"4:25
7."Optimism (As a Radical Life Choice)"4:25
8."Losers 2"4:02
9."Dolores"3:10
10."Brave Faces, Everyone"4:26
Total length:40:25

Notes

Charts

Chart performance for
Brave Faces Everyone
ChartPeak
position
US Top Album Sales (Billboard) [11] 61

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