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Released | May 14, 2013 | |||
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Secondhand Rapture is the debut studio album by American duo MS MR, released on May 14, 2013 by Columbia Records. The album was written and produced by MS MR with additional production and mixing done by Tom Elmhirst. The album features the singles "Hurricane", "Fantasy" and "Think of You". Secondhand Rapture peaked at number 116 on the Billboard 200 and sold 3,500 copies during its first week. [1] To promote the record, the band toured across North America.
On June 24, 2013, the band announced a 26-city summer-fall tour across North America to promote the record, beginning on August 3 at Chicago's House of Blues and finishing on October 23 in Vancouver. Two Door Cinema Club, MØ and Wildcat! Wildcat! were supporting acts on the tour. [2]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AnyDecentMusic? | 6.4/10 [3] |
Metacritic | 60/100 [4] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [5] |
Consequence of Sound | C+ [6] |
Filter | 83% [7] |
The Independent | [8] |
MusicOMH | [9] |
Pitchfork | 6.0/10 [10] |
PopMatters | 5/10 [11] |
Q | [12] |
Slant Magazine | [13] |
Under the Radar | 6/10 [14] |
Secondhand Rapture garnered mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 60, based on 15 reviews. [4]
Laurence Green, writing for MusicOMH , praised the album's warm production, melodies and consistency, declaring, "For all its rich fashionable stylings, Second Rapture is a pop album to its very core and wears the tag with pride". [9] AllMusic's Heather Phares said, "MS MR concentrate on a sullen yet sultry mood for the bulk of Secondhand Rapture, and while that delivers several notable tracks -- "Fantasy" and "Head Is Not My Home" chief among them—at times it's almost too much. Still, the album's strongest tracks show that the duo has plenty of talent and potential". " [5] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine praised the album, noting that "MS MR's knack for durable hooks, in fact, is what keeps the album's gloomy goth-pop anchored". [13]
Pitchfork contributor Laura Snapes described the band's sound as "brooding, rhythmically strong pop songs that fall halfway between the poutiness of Lana Del Rey and the hyperactive fizz of Haim", but criticized their "obsessively curated" strategy", inconsistent lyrical approach and deviations from their sonic template of "deep, thunderous rumblings, celestial twinkling, foggy shrouds, and the sweet clarity of a pastel dawn". [10] Sasha Geffen of Consequence of Sound commended Plapinger's nuanced lyrical delivery and Hershenow's "rich orchestral palette", concluding that "Secondhand Rapture blurs the line between throwing up our hands in defeat and throwing them up in joy". [6]
"Bones" was used in a promotional trailer for the third season of Game of Thrones in early 2013, [15] and in the "What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted" episode of Pretty Little Liars , which aired February 12, 2013. [16] "Hurricane" was featured in the 2018 film Extinction . [17]
All tracks are written by MS MR, additional production by Tom Elmhirst
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Hurricane" | 3:46 |
2. | "Bones" | 4:15 |
3. | "Ash Tree Lane" | 3:13 |
4. | "Fantasy" | 3:28 |
5. | "Dark Doo Wop" | 2:53 |
6. | "Head Is Not My Home" | 3:33 |
7. | "Salty Sweet" | 3:12 |
8. | "Think of You" | 3:26 |
9. | "Twenty Seven" | 3:39 |
10. | "BTSK" | 3:27 |
11. | "No Trace" | 3:16 |
12. | "This Isn't Control" | 3:58 |
Total length: | 42:06 |
No. | Title | Length |
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13. | "Fantasy" (Nicita Remix) | 3:39 |
No. | Title | Length |
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13. | "Fantasy" (Kele from Bloc Party Remix) | 5:56 |
No. | Title | Length |
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13. | "Strings" | 3:57 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Think of You" (Wet Remix) | 3:45 |
2. | "Think of You" (Haerts Remix) | 5:36 |
3. | "Hurricane" (Goldroom Remix) | 5:44 |
4. | "Fantasy" (Nicita Remix) | 3:40 |
5. | "Fantasy" (Xaphoon Jones Late Nite Mix) | 3:35 |
6. | "Bones" (Hot Sugar Remix) | 3:56 |
Total length: | 26:16 |
Credits adapted from the Secondhand Rapture booklet. [19]
MS MR
Additional musicians
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Imagery
Chart (2013) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA) [20] | 22 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [21] | 126 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [22] | 36 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [23] | 51 |
UK Albums (OCC) [24] | 65 |
US Billboard 200 [25] | 116 |
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [26] | 24 |
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [27] | 35 |
Region | Date | Label | Format(s) | Name |
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Germany | May 10, 2013 | Columbia, Sony Music | CD, digital download, vinyl | Secondhand Rapture |
France | Digital download | |||
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France | May 13, 2013 | CD | ||
United Kingdom | CD, vinyl | |||
Various | May 14, 2013 | CD, digital download, vinyl | ||
April 8, 2014 | Digital download | Secondhand^2: The Remix EP |
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