Social Life

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Social Life
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Studio album by
Koufax
ReleasedOctober 22, 2002
RecordedMay and June 2002
StudioKingsize Studio Los Angeles, CA
Genre Indie rock
Length36:15
Label Vagrant
Producer Dave Trumfio, Michael Krassner
Koufax chronology
It Had to Do with Love
(2000)		Social Life
(2002)		 Hard Times Are in Fashion
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic 4/5 [1]
Modern Superior (favorable) [2]
PopMatters (favorable) [3]
Pitchfork 7.2/10 [4]

Social Life is the second studio album by the American indie rock band Koufax. The song "Bright Side" was featured in an episode of the adult animated sitcom Clone High .

Contents

Background

Unlike the previous album “Social Life”was recorded as a quartet. Instead of recording with two keyboard players, this time they decided to record additional guitar parts.

After the last record two members left the band. Ben Force was included as a new band member, replacing not only the bass player. Since he also played guitar, he was able to complement the keyboard player as well. Accordingly, the new album was heavier on the guitars. [5]

The credits are indicated as follows in the blurb: “Suchan writes the Lion's share of the Koufax cuts, although not strictly in that order.“

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Let Us Know"3:21
2."Break It Off"3:20
3."Social Life"3:20
4."Saturday's Alone"3:24
5."Come Back to Life"3:01
6."So Put On"3:04
7."Bright Side"3:22
8."Younger Body, Older Soul"2:47
9."Simply Passing Time"2:39
10."Adultery"3:13
11."Honest Answers (Japanese bonus track)"3:35
12."So Long to Good Times"4:44
Total length:36:15

Reception

The album received mainly positive reviews:

"It's funny how much difference a little piano can make on a rock record […] But with the piano, Koufax are iconoclasts, recalling some of the least hipster-friendly music of the last 25 years while still managing to sound contemporary…" [6] - Popmatters

"Koufax seem to have all the right ingredients in place: crisp songwriting, charismatic swagger vocals, punchy rhythm, horn-embellished riffs. […] The quartet is confident enough to list their most obvious heroes right on the cover– I’d already called Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello before squinting through the fine print." [7] [8] - Pitchfork

"The overall effect is like a less-histrionic XTC emerging from a garage with an upbeat Ben Folds Five.Social Life is a distinguished piece of rock archeology with enough passion to suggest that Koufax may have a part to play in the unfolding tapestry of distinctive voices in the rock world." [9] [8] - Allmusic

Personnel

The Band

Additional musicians

Technical

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References

  1. ↑ "Social Life - Koufax | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Gorman, Dan (18 June 2013). "Waxing Nostalgic: Koufax and the Curse of Vagrant Records". Modern Superior. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Di Bella, Christine (8 June 2003). "Koufax: Social Life". Pop Matters. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  4. ↑ Mitchum, Rob (7 January 2003). "Koufax: Social Life Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Deutschland, Ox Fanzine, Solingen. "Review". www.ox-fanzine.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  6. ↑ "Koufax: Social Life". PopMatters. 2003-06-08. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  7. ↑ "Koufax: Social Life". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  8. 1 2 "Waxing Nostalgic: Koufax and the Curse of Vagrant Records". Modern Superior. 2013-06-18. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  9. ↑ "Social Life - Koufax | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
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