Wiped Out!

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Wiped Out!
The Neighbourhood - Wiped Out.jpg
Studio album by
the Neighbourhood
ReleasedOctober 30, 2015
Genre
Length45:18
Label Columbia
Producer 4e, Justyn Pilbrow, Benny Blanco, Jono Dorr
The Neighbourhood chronology
I Love You.
(2013)		Wiped Out!
(2015)		 The Neighbourhood
(2018)
Singles from Wiped Out!
  1. "Daddy Issues"
    Released: May 5, 2015
  2. "R.I.P. 2 My Youth"
    Released: August 20, 2015

Wiped Out! is the second studio album by American rock band The Neighbourhood. It was released on October 30, 2015, through Columbia Records. [2] Production was mostly handled by 4e and Justyn Pilbrow, features production from Benny Blanco, with executive production from The Neighbourhood and Kirk Harding.

Contents

Wiped Out! peaked at number 13 on the US Billboard 200 [3] and number 1 on the US Top Alternative Albums, [4] making it their first album to reach the summit, alongside moderate international success. The album's lead single, "R.I.P 2 My Youth", was released on August 20, 2015, and charted at number 22 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles. [5] The album's second single, "Cry Baby", was serviced to US alternative radio on November 10, 2015. [6] In late 2020, the song "Daddy Issues" received renewed attention after becoming viral on the video-sharing social platform, TikTok. [7]

Background and development

Prior to the release of Wiped Out!, the band released their debut mixtape, #000000 & #FFFFFF, for free. [8]

Conceptualization and writing for the album started in January 2015. [9] The majority of the record was written and recorded in a studio in Malibu and Santa Monica. In an interview with Digital Trends, bandmate Zach Abels recalls, “We did the second half of the album at my mom’s house, where we originally wrote "Sweater Weather"" [10] "Baby Came Home 2/Valentines" was written on their tour bus during their North American tour. [9] "Prey" was written and recorded near the end of the album's creation process. [11] On the album's title, Rutherford comments, "Wiped Out! was just an internal strife. The album is called Wiped Out! because at the end of it we were all really exhausted," and adds, "It was called Wiped Out! before we even started it because we were exhausted from the beginning!" [12]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 5.5/10 [13]
Metacritic 53/100 [14]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Billboard Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [15]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [16]
Exclaim! 7/10 [17]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [18]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [19]
Uncut 3/10 [20]

The album received generally mixed reviews. Writing for Exclaim! , Ryan B. Patrick called the record "a "see what sticks" effort; it's slick and polished, but hits varying levels of satisfaction throughout." [17]

Natasha West, from DIY , said that "Wiped Out! delivers a message of heartbreak, hope and heartfelt honesty" and "having successfully mixed pop, rock and hip-hop together, it seems like they have finally defined their sound as a band". [16] A review published by Mojo Magazine, stated, "The LA quintet still sound like 16-year-old boys... Musically, though, their slick soulful pop-R&B is far more refined". [18] For Matt Collar, from AllMusic, it "doesn't hurt that cuts like "Cry Baby," "Daddy Issues," and "Greetings from Califournia" counteract the band's somewhat downtempo vibe with catchy melodies and light, dance-oriented beats. As the black & white album cover illustration of a palm tree on a beach implies, this is surf music for street goths and beach bums with bad attitudes". [2]

Kenneth Partridge, from Billboard , wrote, "The subtler, less stylized Wiped Out! keeps the palm-trees-at-twilight feel, but the sound is more hazy R&B than rock". [15] David Turner, from Rolling Stone , thinks that "the warmth of "Sweater Weather" and the rest of the Neighbourhood's debut album is gone on Wiped Out!, replaced by a ponderous kind of cool". [19] Uncut 's published review was that the album is "a stylistic and conceptual vacuum." [20]

Track listing

All tracks produced by Justyn Pilbrow and 4e, except where noted.

Wiped Out! track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."A Moment of Silence"  0:30
2."Prey"
 4:47
3."Cry Baby"
  • Pilbrow
  • The Neighbourhood
  • Fried
 3:56
4."Wiped Out!"
  • Pilbrow
  • The Neighbourhood
  • Fried
 6:15
5."The Beach"
  • Pilbrow
  • The Neighbourhood
  • Fried
 4:17
6."Daddy Issues"
  • Pilbrow
  • The Neighbourhood
  • Fried
 4:20
7."Baby Came Home 2 / Valentines"
  • The Neighbourhood
  • Fried
 6:35
8."Greetings from Califournia"
  • Pilbrow
  • Dorr
  • Bernardy
  • The Neighbourhood
  • Fried
 3:50
9."Ferrari"
  • Pilbrow
  • The Neighbourhood
  • Fried
 3:03
10."Single"
  • The Neighbourhood
  • Fried
 4:20
11."R.I.P. 2 My Youth"
  • 4e
  • Blanco
  • Pilbrow
3:27
Total length:45:17

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Wiped Out! [21]

Performance credits

Production

Creative

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Wiped Out!
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [32] Platinum40,000‡
Canada (Music Canada) [33] Gold40,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [34] Gold10,000‡
Poland (ZPAV) [35] 3× Platinum60,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [36] Gold100,000‡
United States (RIAA) [37] Gold500,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release history for Wiped Out!
RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
United StatesOctober 30, 2015 Columbia [38] [39] [40]
February 19, 2016 LP [41]
United Kingdom [42]
Germany
 [43]

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