Floatr

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Floatr
Floatr.album.jpg
Studio album by
Released1 May 2020 (2020-05-01)
Length48:17
Happyness chronology
Write In
(2017)
Floatr
(2020)
Singles from Floatr
  1. "Vegetable"
    Released: 22 January 2020 [1]
  2. "Seeing Eye Dog"
    Released: 4 March 2020 [2]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 77 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Gigwise 8/10 [6]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Line of Best Fit 7.5/10 [8]
Loud and Quiet 6/10 [9]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]

Floatr is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Happyness. It was released on 1 May 2020 under Infinit Suds. [11]

Contents

Critical reception

Floatr was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 77, based on 6 reviews. [3]

Track listing

Floatr track listing
No.TitleLength
1."title track"5:48
2."Milk Float"4:53
3."When I'm Far Away (From You)"3:10
4."Vegetable"3:46
5."What Isn't Nurture?"4:56
6."Bothsidesing"3:24
7."Undone"2:49
8."Anvil Bitch"6:35
9."Ouch (yup)"4:11
10."(I Kissed the Smile on Your Face)"1:31
11."Seeing Eye Dog"7:14

Charts

Chart performance for Floatr
Chart (2020)Peak
position
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [12] 39

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