These People (Richard Ashcroft album)

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These People
Richard Ashcroft These People.jpg
Studio album by
Richard Ashcroft
Released20 May 2016
Recorded2014–2015
Genre
Length51:05
Label Righteous Phonographic Association, Cooking Vinyl, Harvest [1]
Producer
Richard Ashcroft chronology
United Nations of Sound
(2010)		These People
(2016)		 Natural Rebel
(2018)
Singles from These People
  1. "This Is How It Feels"
    Released: 1 March 2016
  2. "Hold On"
    Released: 16 May 2016
  3. "They Don't Own Me"
    Released: 8 August 2016
  4. "Out of My Body"
    Released: 8 November 2016
  5. "These People"
    Released: 19 August 2016
  6. "Black Lines"
    Released: 17 February 2017
  7. "Out of My Body (Remixes EP)"
    Released: 31 March 2017

These People is the fourth studio album from British singer and musician, Richard Ashcroft. The album was released on 20 May 2016 through Righteous Phonographic Association, Cooking Vinyl and Harvest Records. [2] This is his first solo album since his 2010's solo project album, United Nations of Sound , and also his first main studio album since 2006's, Keys to the World .

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 51/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Blurt Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Clash 4/10 [6]
Drowned in Sound 3/10 [7]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The Line of Best Fit 4/10 [9]
Loud and Quiet 6/10 [10]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Pitchfork Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [12]

These People received generally mixed-to-favourable 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 51 based on 15 reviews. [3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Richard Ashcroft

No.TitleLength
1."Out of My Body"4:30
2."This Is How It Feels"5:06
3."They Don't Own Me"5:48
4."Hold On"5:40
5."These People"4:49
6."Everybody Needs Somebody to Hurt"4:40
7."Picture of You"4:47
8."Black Lines"5:10
9."Ain't the Future so Bright"4:47
10."Songs of Experience"5:48
Total length:51:05
Japanese bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."How the West Was Lost"3:26
Total length:54:31

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [13] 70
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [14] 24
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [15] 43
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [16] 92
French Albums (SNEP) [17] 97
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [18] 51
Irish Albums (IRMA) [19] 17
Italian Albums (FIMI) [20] 34
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [21] 138
Scottish Albums (OCC) [22] 1
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [23] 32
UK Albums (OCC) [24] 3
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [25] 1
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [26] 12

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