Leave Me Alone (Hinds album)

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Leave Me Alone
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Studio album by
Hinds
Released8 January 2016 (2016-01-08)
StudioPaco Loco Studios, Cadiz [1]
Genre Garage rock
Length37:58
Label
Producer Diego García
Hinds chronology
Leave Me Alone
(2016)		 I Don't Run
(2018)
Singles from Leave Me Alone
  1. "Chili Town"
    Released: 2015
  2. "Garden"
    Released: 2015
  3. "San Diego"
    Released: 2015
  4. "Easy"
    Released: 2016
  5. "Warts"
    Released: 2016
  6. "Bamboo"
    Released: 2016

Leave Me Alone is the debut full-length studio album by Spanish garage rock band Hinds. It was released on 8 January 2016 under Lucky Number and Mom + Pop Music. The album follows several singles and a 10"-compilation the band released between 2014 and 2016 [2] [3] as a duo and since adding drummer Amber Grimbergen and bassist Ade Martín as a quartet. [4] "Chili Town", "Garden" "San Diego", "Easy" and "Warts" were released as singles and music videos.

Contents

In October 2016 a deluxe edition of Leave Me Alone was released, featuring a bonus disc of B-sides, rarities and cell phone demos that were mostly recorded prior to the album's recording. An animated music video for "Bamboo" was released to promote the deluxe edition. [5]

Music and lyrics

Leave Me Alone has been described as a set of cheerful, casual, lo-fi, guitar-driven pop songs, with many critics referring to the music as "surf-rock". Most songs feature duets by the band's two vocalists, Ana Perrote and Carlotta Cosials. The songs are sung in English, and thematically cover positive and negative romantic situations, among other subjects. [6]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.3/10 [7]
Metacritic 74/100 [8]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Financial Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
NME 4/5 [12]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Pitchfork 7.5/10 [4]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [15]
Spin 6/10 [6]
Uncut 7/10 [16]

Leave Me Alone received mostly positive reviews upon its release, largely describing the album as playful, energetic, and exuberant, although some critics identified a more serious and gloomy side to the music. [17] Though drawing comparisons to many other similarly unpolished garage rock bands, critics praised the album's distinctive success at conveying the band's camaraderie and their enthusiasm for their music. Noel Gardner of NME commented on "the impression [the album] gives of Hinds as a tight-knit girl gang," [12] and Spin 's Harley Brown wrote that the band often sounds like "they got carried away with the sheer good fortune of discovering their musical talent -- and how much fun it is playing with each other." [6]

The dual vocalists were identified as one of the best aspects of the album, with Quinn Moreland of Pitchfork writing that "the best moments on Leave Me Alone occur when Cosials and Perrote are going all-out, belting together without restraint." [4]

The album has also been negatively criticized for not expanding creatively beyond other bands in the genre, with Spin's Gardner writing that "it's a little hard to avoid feeling like you've heard this one before." Ken Capobianco of The Boston Globe criticized the predictability of the songs, saying that he hopes the band's songwriting improves in the future, and that "too many songs... seem like first drafts." [6] [18]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Garden"4:07
2."Fat Calmed Kiddos"3:02
3."Warts"2:35
4."Easy"2:24
5."Castigadas en el Granero"3:46
6."Solar Gap"2:25
7."Chili Town"3:17
8."Bamboo"3:49
9."San Diego"2:30
10."And I Will Send Your Flowers Back"3:34
11."I'll Be Your Man"3:17
12."Walking Home"3:12
Total length:37:58
Deluxe edition bonus disc
No.TitleLength
1."Holograma" (Los Nastys cover) 
2."When It Comes to You" (Dead Ghosts cover) 
3."Castigadas en el Granero" (Barn version) 
4."Between Cans" (Barn version) 
5."Trippy Gum" 
6."Davey Crockett" (Thee Headcoats cover) 
7."Whiskey" (demo of unreleased song, 11 January 2014) 
8."Walking Home" (demo, 16 April 2015) 
9."San Diego" (demo, 6 August 2014) 
10."Fat Calmed Kiddos" (demo, 24 May 2014) 
11."Chili Town" (demo, 28 February 2015) 
12."Castigadas en el Granero" (8-bit version) 

Personnel

Credits for Leave Me Alone adapted from album liner notes. [19]

Hinds

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [20] 176
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [21] 273
UK Albums (OCC) [22] 47
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [23] 3
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [24] 4
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [25] 9
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [26] 21
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [27] 20

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