Q36 (album)

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Q36
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Studio album by
The Rentals
Released26 June 2020
Length68:11
Label Self-released
Producer Matt Sharp
The Rentals chronology
Lost in Alphaville
(2014)		Q36
(2020)		The Midnight Society Soundtrack
(2022)
Singles from Q36
  1. "Spaceships"
    Released: 5 November 2019
  2. "Forgotten Astronaut"
    Released: 18 November 2019
  3. "9th Configuration"
    Released: 3 December 2019
  4. "Breaking and Breaking and Breaking"
    Released: 17 December 2019
  5. "Invasion Night"
    Released: 31 December 2019
  6. "Nowhere Girl"
    Released: 14 January 2020
  7. "Great Big Blue"
    Released: 28 January 2020
  8. "Above This Broken World"
    Released: 10 February 2020
  9. "Teen Beat Cosmonaut"
    Released: 25 February 2020
  10. "Another World"
    Released: 10 March 2020
  11. "Conspiracy"
    Released: 14 April 2020
  12. "Information (And the Island in the Sky)"
    Released: 12 May 2020
  13. "Machine Love"
    Released: 26 May 2020
  14. "Goodbye, Steve"
    Released: 9 June 2020
  15. "Shake Your Diamonds"
    Released: 23 June 2020

Q36 is the fourth full-length studio album by The Rentals, it was self-released on June 26, 2020. It was made available on LP and on digital download. On January 7, 2020, Matt Sharp announced through social media that he would be remixing a collection of tracks from the album titled Z36. Stating that "The remixes have a more atmospheric approach that focus primarily on Nick Zinner’s guitars and my synthesizers." [1]

Contents

Background and recording

Matt Sharp announced that the band was working on there then-untitled studio album on October 4, 2017 just before the release of the single "Elon Musk is Making Me Sad", which would become the final track on Q36. [2] Later in 2018, Sharp announced on Twitter that Dave Fridmann would be engineering the album, [3] who had also engineered Weezer's 1996 studio album Pinkerton. Furthermore, on December 20, 2018, Sharp had stated that the mastering had been finished in Sterling Sound in Nashville, Tennessee. [4]

In an interview with The Interplanetary Podcast, Sharp explained that he starting conceiving the album by starting with 50 song ideas. [5] He said that his only rule going in to this album is that none of the songs could be autobiographical, explaining that he had gotten bored of songs about his personal experiences. [5] In this podcast, Sharp also explained how he became associated with guitarist Nick Zinner at a new years party following his band The Yeah Yeah Yeahs performed a cover of The Rentals song "The Love I'm Searching For" in 2006. Years later, Sharp was able to convince him to work on a new Rentals album, which became Q36. [5] Sharp and Zinner worked on the songs off the album independently in their own home studios. [5]

The album was formally revealed on November 5, 2019, alongside the lead-single "Spaceships", with pre-orders becoming available on the bands Bandcamp page. The second single, "Forgotten Astronaut" was released on November 20, 2019. Following that, there would be a new single every two weeks, alongside limited-merchandise and clothing designed by Ivan Minnsloff. On March 24, 2020, the record's physical release was postponed due to COVID-19. [6]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [7]
Review scores
SourceRating
Under the Radar 8/10 [8]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Exclaim! 7/10 [10]
PopMatters 5/10 [11]

Track listing

Q36 track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Shake Your Diamonds"4:17
2."Nowhere Girl"4:30
3."9th Configuration"5:59
4."Teen Beat Cosmonaut"3:15
5."Above This Broken World"5:11
6."Forgotten Astronaut"4:43
7."Conspiracy"4:26
8."Breaking and Breaking and Breaking"3:04
9."Great Big Blue"3:25
10."Information (and the Island in the Sky)"4:30
11."Spaceships"4:18
12."Goodbye, Steve"2:18
13."Invasion Night"4:07
14."Another World"3:20
15."Machine Love"3:44
16."Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad"6:56
Total length:68:11

Personnel

The Rentals

Musicians:

Technical:

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