For Fuck's Sake

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For Fuck's Sakes
Nightingales FFS.jpg
Studio album by
Released2014
RecordedSeptember 2013
Genre Alternative rock
Label Self-released
Producer The Nightingales
The Nightingales chronology
No Love Lost
(2012)
For Fuck's Sakes
(2014)
Mind Over Matter
(2015)

For Fuck's Sake is the eighth studio album by British band The Nightingales. The album was a limited edition self-release and was recorded in September 2013 at the Faust Studio, Scheer, Germany.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Bullet For Gove"
  2. "Diary Of A Bag Of Nerves"
  3. "The Gruesome Threesome"
  4. "Toasted On Both"
  5. "The Abstract Dad"
  6. "Good Morning And Goodbye"
  7. "His Family Has Been Informed"
  8. "Dumb And Drummer"
  9. "Thick And Thin"
  10. "Contempt"
  11. "Same Old"
  12. "Good Morning Midnight"

Personnel

Reception

Joe Shooman of Record Collector awarded the album 4/5 and wrote "... as the title indicates, the band are in no mood to mess around. The result is that ace lyrics, riffs and ideas burst out from all angles". [1] Hayley Scott rated it 7/10 for Line of Best Fit and wrote "Its allure is not immediately perceptible – it takes time to win you over, but it withstands repeated listens; its appeal never waning but heightening with perseverance". [2] In Mojo it was given 4/5 and described as "Heartening evidence of the British art of mentally transforming ennui and chagrin into something approaching gold". [3]

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References

  1. Shooman, Joe. "Schizophonic post-punks on fine form". Record Collector. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  2. Scott, Hayley. "The Nightingales – For Fuck's Sake". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  3. "The Nightingales".