Radlands (album)

Radlands
Studio album by Mystery Jets
Released	30 April 2012 (2012-04-30)
Recorded	Westlake, Austin, Texas, US
Genre	Indie rock
Length	52:05
Label	Rough Trade
Producer	Dan Carey
Mystery Jets chronology
Serotonin (2010) Radlands (2012) Curve of the Earth (2016)
Singles from Radlands
"Someone Purer" Released: 16 April 2012 "Greatest Hits" Released: 18 June 2012

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	67/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
BBC	(positive) [3]
Drowned in Sound	6/10 [4]
The Guardian	[5]
The Independent	[6]
NME	[7]
Pitchfork Media	5.4/10 [8]

Radlands is the fourth studio album by the Mystery Jets. On 3 April 2012, shortly before the release of Radlands, Kai Fish announced he would be leaving the band, with bassist Pete Cochrane taking his place for the band's UK tour. ^[9]

The album was recorded in a home recording studio set up in a country house by the Colorado river in the Westlake area in Austin, Texas.

The album peaked at number 40 on the UK Albums Chart. ^[10]

The name 'Radlands' is an amalgamation of Keith Richards' 1960s apartment Redlands and the Terrence Malick film Badlands . ^[11]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Radlands"	5:28
2.	"You Had Me at Hello"	4:22
3.	"Someone Purer"	5:18
4.	"The Ballad of Emmerson Lonestar"	4:58
5.	"Greatest Hits"	3:35
6.	"The Hale Bop"	3:02
7.	"The Nothing"	4:55
8.	"Take Me Where the Roses Grow"	4:31
9.	"Sister Everett"	4:49
10.	"Lost in Austin"	6:19
11.	"Luminescense"	4:48
Total length:		52:05

References

1. "Radlands by Mystery Jets". Metacritic . Retrieved 19 September 2016.
2. Deming, Mark. Radlands > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
3. "BBC Music review".
4. "Drowned in Sound review". Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
5. Carnwath, Ally (29 April 2012). "Mystery Jets: Radlands – review – Music – The Guardian". The Guardian.
6. Price, Simon (29 April 2012). "Album: Album: Mystery Jets, Radlands (Rough Trade) – Reviews – Music – The Independent". The Independent.
7. Denney, Alex (30 April 2012). "NME Album Reviews – Mystery Jets – 'Radlands'". NME.
8. "Pitchfork review". Pitchfork .
9. Chris Bright. "Music – Review of Mystery Jets – Radlands". BBC. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
10. "Mystery Jets", Official Charts Company, retrieved 12 September 2012
11. Toh, Christopher. "Culture & Lifestyle | Music | Being rad". TODAYonline. Retrieved 14 September 2012.

Further reading

• "Mystery Jets : Radlands". mysteryjets.com. Mystery Jets.
• Cory Clifford (5 June 2012). "Mystery Jets' Radlands : 7/10". album reviews. HEAVEmedia.