Vivian Girls (album)

Vivian Girls is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Vivian Girls, released on September 30, 2008, by In the Red Records.

Vivian Girls
Studio album by
Vivian Girls
ReleasedSeptember 30, 2008 (2008-09-30)
RecordedJanuary 2008
StudioCivil Defense League (Brooklyn, New York)
GenreIndie rock, noise pop, lo-fi, power pop
Length21:27
LabelIn the Red
Vivian Girls chronology
Vivian Girls
(2008)		 Everything Goes Wrong
(2009)

Reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The A.V. ClubA−[3]
Blender[4]
NME8/10[5]
Paste8.0/10[6]
Pitchfork8.5/10[7]

Vivian Girls was met with favorable reviews from critics.[1] The album holds a score of 80 out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic, based on 15 reviews.[1] NME wrote that "between the omnipresent slabs of reverb, the trio flip between harmonic garage rock, gloomy melodies and twee-Birthday Partyisms".[5] Plan B praised the album's melodies as "all hard and spiky on the outside and gooey on the inside, like tough girl music should be".[8]

Vivian Girls was named the 16th best album of 2008 by Pitchfork and the 9th best album of 2008 by Rough Trade.[9][10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Vivian Girls.

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 for Vivian Girls adapted from album liner notes.[11]

Vivian Girls

Additional personnel

Charts
Chart (2008) Peak
position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[12] 44
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gollark: Technologically speaking.
gollark: I can't really think of things going *backward* except maybe nuclear power.
gollark: And there's all the random incremental gains in background things which are hard to notice, and advancements in biology.

References
  1. "Reviews for Vivian Girls by Vivian Girls". Metacritic. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  2. Sendra, Tim. "Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls". AllMusic. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  3. Heller, Jason (January 13, 2009). "Vivian Girls: Vivian Girls". The A.V. Club. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  4. Sheffield, Rob. "Vivian Girls: Vivian Girls". Blender. Archived from the original on October 4, 2008. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  5. "Vivian Girls: Vivian Girls". NME. 2009.
  6. Freedland, Henry (October 14, 2008). "Vivian Girls: Vivian Girls". Paste. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  7. Granzin, Amy (October 3, 2008). "Vivian Girls: Vivian Girls". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  8. Darlin', Jesse (October 2008). "Vivian Girls: Vivian Girls (In the Red)". Plan B (38): 71.
  9. "Albums of the Year". Rough Trade. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
  10. "The 50 Best Albums of 2008". Pitchfork. December 19, 2008. p. 4. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  11. Vivian Girls (liner notes). Vivian Girls. In the Red Records. 2008. ITR 161.CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. "Vivian Girls Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
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