These People | ||||
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Released | 20 May 2016 | |||
Recorded | 2014–15 | |||
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Length | 51:05 | |||
Label | Righteous Phonographic Association, Cooking Vinyl, Harvest [1] | |||
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Richard Ashcroft chronology | ||||
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Singles from These People | ||||
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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 .
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 51/100 [3] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
Blurt | [5] |
Clash | 4/10 [6] |
Drowned in Sound | 3/10 [7] |
The Guardian | [8] |
The Line of Best Fit | 4/10 [9] |
Loud and Quiet | 6/10 [10] |
MusicOMH | [11] |
NME | [1] |
Pitchfork | [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]
All tracks are written by Richard Ashcroft
No. | Title | Length |
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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 |
No. | Title | Length |
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11. | "How the West Was Lost" | 3:26 |
Total length: | 54:31 |
Chart (2016) | Peak position |
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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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