Diploid Love

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Diploid Love
Brody Dalle Diploid Love.jpg
Studio album by
Released28 April 2014 (2014-04-28)
Genre
Length41:39
Label Caroline, Queen of Hearts
Producer
Singles from Diploid Love
  1. "Meet the Foetus/Oh the Joy"
    Released: 9 February 2014
  2. "Parties for Prostitutes"
    Released: 6 March 2014
  3. "Don't Mess with Me"
    Released: 11 March 2014

Diploid Love is the debut solo album Brody Dalle, frontwoman of the Distillers. The digital download was released on 28 April 2014 in the United States and 29 April in Canada, followed by the CD and vinyl record set on 19 May. [2] The lead single, "Meet the Foetus/Oh the Joy", was streamed for free on SoundCloud on 9 February [1] before being released to iTunes on 17 February. [3]

Contents

The album features collaborations from Garbage's Shirley Manson, The Strokes' Nick Valensi, Michael Shuman of Queens of the Stone Age and Emily Kokal of Warpaint. [2]

Reception

Diploid Love has received mostly positive reviews, with NME rating it 7 out of 10 while Rolling Stone rated it four out five stars. [4]

The album debuted at number 33 on the UK Albums Chart and number 7 on the US Top Heatseekers albums chart. [5] [6] It also debuted and peaked at number 89 on the Australian Albums Chart. [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Brody Dalle

Diploid Love track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Rat Race"3:38
2."Underworld"5:19
3."Don't Mess with Me"3:39
4."Dressed in Dreams"4:47
5."Carry On"4:21
6."Meet the Foetus/Oh the Joy" (featuring Shirley Manson and Emily Kokal)5:03
7."I Don't Need Your Love"6:01
8."Blood in Gutters"4:18
9."Parties for Prostitutes"4:33

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Diploid Love
Chart (2014)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [7] 89
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [8] 55
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [9] 167
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [10] 45
UK Albums (OCC) [5] 33
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [6] 7

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