Dye It Blonde | ||||
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Released | January 18, 2011[ citation needed ] | |||
Genre | Indie pop | |||
Length | 35:22 | |||
Label | Fat Possum | |||
Producer | Chris Coady | |||
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Dye It Blonde is the second studio album by the band Smith Westerns, released on January 18, 2011 on Fat Possum Records.
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 80/100 [1] |
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The A.V. Club | A− [3] |
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One Thirty BPM | (89%) [5] |
Paste | 8.1/10 [6] |
Pitchfork | 8.4/10 [7] |
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Spin | 9/10 [10] |
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Dye It Blonde received acclaim from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 30 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". [1]
All tracks are written by Cullen Omori and Max Kakacek
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Weekend" | 3:22 |
2. | "Still New" | 4:12 |
3. | "Imagine Pt. 3" | 3:34 |
4. | "All Die Young" | 3:47 |
5. | "Fallen in Love" | 2:30 |
6. | "End of the Night" | 3:26 |
7. | "Only One" | 3:24 |
8. | "Smile" | 4:11 |
9. | "Dance Away" | 2:46 |
10. | "Dye the World" | 4:10 |
Total length: | 35:22 |
Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged. Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999, and was acquired by Fandom, Inc. in 2022.
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