The Concretes (album)

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The Concretes
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Studio album by
Released2 May 2003 (2003-05-02)
Genre Indie pop
Length42:37
Label Licking Fingers
Producer Jari Haapalainen
The Concretes chronology
Nationalgeographic
(2001)
The Concretes
(2003)
Layourbattleaxedown
(2005)
Alternative covers
The Concretes Scandinavian release cover.jpg
Original Scandinavian release
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 75/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Alternative Press 5/5 [3]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [4]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
NME 9/10 [6]
Pitchfork 8.1/10 [7]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]

The Concretes is the debut studio album by Swedish indie pop band The Concretes. It was first released in Sweden on 2 May 2003 by Licking Fingers, and was released internationally in 2004.

Contents

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Victoria Bergsman; all music is composed by The Concretes

No.TitleLength
1."Say Something New"3:48
2."You Can't Hurry Love"2:02
3."Chico"5:07
4."New Friend"4:11
5."Diana Ross"3:42
6."Warm Night"3:37
7."Foreign Country"1:45
8."Seems Fine"2:12
9."Lovin Kind"5:35
10."Lonely As Can Be"3:32
11."This One's for You"7:06

Personnel

The Concretes
Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2004)Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC) [10] 89

Release history

RegionDateLabelCatalog no.
Sweden2 May 2003 Licking Fingers
  • LFCD012 (CD)
  • LFLP012 (LP)
United Kingdom21 June 2004
United States29 June 2004 Astralwerks ASW 71126
France4 October 2004Licking Fingers
  • LFCD012 (CD)
  • LFLP012 (LP)
Japan16 February 2005 Toshiba-EMI TOCP 66362

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