Stunning Luxury

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Stunning Luxury
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Studio album by
Released1 March 2019 (2019-03-01)
Length44:11
Label The Leaf Label
Snapped Ankles chronology
Come Play the Trees
(2017)
Stunning Luxury
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3] >
The Line of Best Fit 8/10 [4]

Stunning Luxury is the second studio album by English band Snapped Ankles. It was released on 1 March 2019 under The Leaf Label. Described as a "10-song Gang of Four style takedown of modern capitalism" and "a stridently political album that loses neither its sense of humour nor its capacity for bangers", the album's themes and settings are based in the city and suburbs rather than the forests of 2017's Come Play The Trees. [5] [6] [7]

The Quietus placed the album at #16 in their Albums Of The Year 2019. [8]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Pestisound (Moving Out)"3:55
2."Tailpipe"4:23
3."Letter From Hampi Mountain"4:14
4."Rechargeable"5:17
5."Delivery Van"4:04
6."Three Steps to a Development"4:54
7."Skirmish in the Suburbs"4:59
8."Dial the Rings on a Tree"4:56
9."Drink and Glide"4:09
10."Dream and Formaldehyde"3:20

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