Ours Is Chrome

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Ours Is Chrome
Ours Is Chrome.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 4, 2015
RecordedOctober 2014
StudioStudio 4 Recording Studios, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
Genre
Length43:00
Label Side One Dummy, Red Bull
Producer Will Yip
Superheaven chronology
Jar
(2013)
Ours Is Chrome
(2015)
Superheaven
(2025)
Singles from Ours Is Chrome
  1. "I've Been Bored"
    Released: March 24, 2015
  2. "Next to Nothing"
    Released: April 9, 2015
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 69/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Exclaim! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Punknews.orgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Ours Is Chrome is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Superheaven. Released on May 4, 2015, it was the final album released before going on a 6-year long hiatus in 2016, ending in 2022. The snake on the cover is a DeKay's brown snake (Storeria dekayi).

Contents

Musical style

Ours Is Chrome has been labelled as a alternative rock, [6] grunge, [6] [7] and shoegaze album. [7]

Track listing

All music is composed by Superheaven

No.TitleLength
1."I've Been Bored"3:23
2."Next to Nothing"4:04
3."Room"3:37
4."All the Pain"4:14
5."Leach"3:50
6."Downswing"3:41
7."Blur"3:23
8."Gushin' Blood"3:29
9."Dig Into Me"3:35
10."From the Chest Down"6:06
11."Poor Aileen"4:27
Total length:43:00

Personnel

Superheaven
Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2015)Peak
position
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [8] 16
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [9] 12
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [10] 25

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