Vivian Girls (album)

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Vivian Girls
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Studio album by
Vivian Girls
ReleasedMay 2008 (2008-05)
RecordedJanuary 2008
StudioCivil Defense League (Brooklyn, New York)
Genre
Length21:27
Label Mauled by Tigers
Vivian Girls chronology
Vivian Girls
(2008)		 Everything Goes Wrong
(2009)
Singles from Vivian Girls
  1. "Wild Eyes"
    Released: 2008 [1]
  2. "Tell the World"
    Released: 2008 [2]

Vivian Girls is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Vivian Girls. It was released in May 2008 by the label Mauled by Tigers. [3]

Contents

After Mauled by Tigers' limited pressing of 500 LP copies quickly sold out, Vivian Girls was reissued on CD and LP by In the Red Records on October 7, 2008. [4] It was reissued again by Polyvinyl Record Co. in 2019, alongside its 2009 follow-up Everything Goes Wrong . [5]

Composition

Vivian Girls has been described by critics as an album of lo-fi [6] [7] and noise pop [7] [8] music. Paste 's Henry Freedland said that it exhibits Vivian Girls' fusion of art punk and shoegaze-pop, [9] while NME noted the presence of garage rock elements. [10]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 80/100 [11]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The A.V. Club A− [12]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [13]
NME 8/10 [10]
Paste 8.0/10 [9]
Pitchfork 8.5/10 [14]

Vivian Girls was met with favorable reviews from music critics. [11] The album holds a score of 80 out of 100 on the review aggregation website Metacritic, based on 15 reviews. [11] NME stated that "between the omnipresent slabs of reverb, the trio flip between harmonic garage rock, gloomy melodies and twee-Birthday Partyisms". [10] Jesse Darlin' of Plan B praised the songs' melodies as "all hard and spiky on the outside and gooey on the inside, like tough girl music should be." [15]

At the end of 2008, Vivian Girls was named the ninth best album of the year by Rough Trade, [16] while Pitchfork listed it as the year's 16th best album. [17]

Legacy

Despite being polarizingly received when it was released, Vivian Girls has since grown in status. In a 10th-anniversary retrospective, Stereogum 's Patrick D. McDermott dubbed it "an all-killer-no-filler introduction to an awesome band". McDermott wrote of audiences' desire to hear "something catchy but not polished, raw but not mean" in music beyond the "pastoral-sounding boy bands and Coachella-band psych" common at the time. He felt that this was briefly provided by noise pop's late-2000s resurgence, of which the album contained "22 of [its] messiest and most influential minutes". [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Vivian Girls (Katy Goodman, Cassie Ramone and Frankie Rose)

No.TitleLength
1."All the Time"1:57
2."Such a Joke"1:43
3."Wild Eyes"1:55
4."Going Insane"1:29
5."Tell the World"3:36
6."Where Do You Run To"3:15
7."Damaged"2:06
8."No"1:19
9."Never See Me Again"1:41
10."I Believe in Nothing"2:26
Total length:21:27

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [18]

Vivian Girls

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2008)Peak
position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [20] 44

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  2. ↑ "Vivian Girls – Tell The World – 7"". Woodsist . Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  3. ↑ Caramanica, Jon (August 21, 2008). "Punks, but Really Romantics at Heart". The New York Times . Retrieved March 2, 2021.
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  5. ↑ "Vivian Girls announce Memory, first new album in 8 years out 9/20 – listen to 'Sick' now + fall tour dates". Polyvinyl Record Co. July 16, 2019. Retrieved June 19, 2021.
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