Femejism

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Femejism
Deap Vally - Femejism.png
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 16, 2016 (2016-09-16)
Genre Garage rock, alternative rock
Length49:37
Label Nevado Music
Producer Nick Zinner, Deap Vally
Deap Vally chronology
Sistrionix
(2013)
Femejism
(2016)
Deap Lips
(2020)
Singles from Femejism
  1. "Royal Jelly"
    Released: November 10, 2015 [1]
  2. "Smile More"
    Released: June 7, 2016 [2]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 73/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Consequence of Sound C+ [5]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Vice A− [7]

Femejism is the second studio album by American rock duo Deap Vally. It was released in September 2016 by Nevado Music. The album was produced by Yeah Yeah Yeahs' guitarist Nick Zinner. He makes an appearance in the video for the first single, "Royal Jelly", which also featured the British model Georgia May Jagger. [8]

Contents

Promotion

Music videos were produced and released for all but three songs on the album. The first of which was Royal Jelly, and it was published on Nov 10, 2015. Over the next two and a half years, Deap Vally debuted music videos for Smile More, Gonnawanna, Little Baby Beauty Queen, Critic, Julian, Turn It Off, Two Seat Bike, Post Funk and Grunge Bond. In the Gonnawanna video, fellow Los-Angeles musician Kiran Gandhi was featured.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Royal Jelly"4:03
2."Julian"3:13
3."Gonnawanna"3:47
4."Little Baby Beauty Queen"3:21
5."Smile More"4:31
6."Critic"3:27
7."Post Funk"3:51
8."Two Seat Bike"3:23
9."Bubble Baby"4:21
10."Teenage Queen"4:36
11."Grunge Bond"2:30
12."Turn It Off"4:15
13."Heart Is an Animal"4:19
Japan bonus tracks [9] [ better source needed ]
No.TitleLength
14."Smile More" (acoustic) 
15."Critic" (live acoustic) 

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Femejism
Chart (2016)Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC) [10] 50
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [11] 4

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