Get Guilty

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Get Guilty
Get Guilty cover.jpg
Studio album by
A. C. Newman
ReleasedJanuary 20, 2009 (2009-01-20)
Recorded2008
Studio
Genre Indie rock
Length42:04
Label
Producer
A. C. Newman chronology
The Slow Wonder
(2004)		Get Guilty
(2009)		 Shut Down the Streets
(2012)

Get Guilty is the second solo studio album by Canadian musician A. C. Newman. It was released on January 20, 2009 via Last Gang/Matador Records. Recording sessions took place at Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn during the summer of 2008 with additional vocals were recorded at Retromedia Studios in Red Bank and The Dude Ranch in Wanamassa. Production was handled by Newman himself together with Phil Palazzolo.

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In the United States, the album debuted at number 99 on the Billboard 200, number 11 on the Independent Albums and number 7 on the Tastemakers charts.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 73/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Consequence of Sound C+ [3]
IGN 7.5/10 [4]
Pitchfork 7.5/10 [5]
PopMatters 8/10 [6]
Slant Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Spin Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The A.V. Club A- [9]
The Boston Phoenix Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Tiny Mix Tapes TMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT half.svgTMT empty.svg [11]

Get Guilty was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 73 based on twenty-four reviews. [1]

Noel Murray of The A.V. Club praised the album, calling it "a stirring set of memorable power-pop, given a personal spin via Newman's habit of delivering hard-to-parse pronouncements, like some kind of mad-eyed, curiously convincing soothsayer". [9] AllMusic's Tim Sendra stated: "anyone who can craft a record that sounds and feels as good as Get Guilty deserves to keep on making records forever". Matthew Fiander of PopMatters wrote: "as the album fades out to Newman and company singing, you feel drawn in to the song, much closer to the record than when you began. And that feeling is what makes Get Guilty fantastic". [6] Jesse Cataldo of Slant Magazine concluded: "yet all of this feels like quibbling when surveying an album that's still devastatingly charming, consistently intelligent, and engaging on first listen". [7] Eric Harvey of Pitchfork wrote: "like Wonder, Guilty has its share of up-tempo tracks, yet its real pleasures are idiosyncratic, revealing themselves the more attentively and often you listen". [5] Jessica Suarez of Spin found the album "dwells on the past, and that pensive reflection mutes the second half, turning Newman's boast into a wistful memory". [8] Brendan Mahoney of Tiny Mix Tapes resumed: "this is just a modern rock record, and it definitely won't change your life, but it's more than competent and beyond clever". [11]

In his mixed review for The Boston Phoenix , Michael Patrick Brady wrote: "too many of the songs rely on a stilted, march-like rhythm that makes them sound formal and restrained, especially when paired with Newman's arch lyrical delivery". [10]

Accolades

Accolades for Get Guilty
PublicationAccoladeRankRef.
Slant The 25 Best Albums & Singles of 2009
13

Track listing

All tracks are written by Allan Carl Newman

No.TitleLength
1."There Are Maybe Ten or Twelve..."2:40
2."The Heartbreak Rides"4:09
3."Like a Hitman, Like a Dancer"3:40
4."Prophets"2:58
5."Submarines of Stockholm"3:54
6."Thunderbolts"3:45
7."The Palace at 4 AM"3:22
8."The Changeling (Get Guilty)"3:19
9."Elemental"3:28
10."Young Atlantis"3:49
11."The Collected Works"3:09
12."All of My Days and All of My Days Off"3:51
Total length:42:04

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2009)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [13] 99
US Independent Albums ( Billboard ) [14] 11

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References

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  2. ↑ Sendra, Tim. "Get Guilty - A.C. Newman | Album | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved January 13, 2025.
  3. ↑ Young, Alex (January 20, 2009). "Album Review: A.C. Newman - Get Guilty". Consequence Of Sound . Retrieved January 13, 2025.
  4. ↑ Schieron, Sara (January 21, 2009). "A.C. Newman - Get Guilty". IGN . Archived from the original on January 22, 2009. Retrieved January 13, 2025.
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