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Promises, Promises (Die! Die! Die! album)

Promises, Promises is the second studio album by New Zealand punk rock band Die! Die! Die!.

Promises, Promise
Studio album by
Die! Die! Die!
Released5 February 2008
Recorded2007
GenrePunk rock
Length39:34
LabelTardus

Etch And Sketch

SAF Records
ProducerShayne Carter
Die! Die! Die! chronology
Die! Die! Die!
(2006) 		Promises, Promise
(2008) 		Form
(2010)

Background and release edit

Promises, Promises was produced by Shayne Carter (Straitjacket Fits, Dimmer). The album was engineered by Kevin McMahoon and mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk. The cover art was designed and hand sewn by Mark Rutledge.

It was released on 5 February 2008 via Tardus in New Zealand and via SAF records in the US and Canada.

Critical reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
NME(8/10)[1]
AllMusic     [2]
The A.V. Club(A-)[3]
The Guardian     [4]

Promises, Promises was well received by music journalists. Metacritic, a site which provides a normalised rating out of 100 based on reviews from critics, gives the album a score of 78.[5]

Camilla Pia of the NME said of the album, "their relentless, unsettling sound is every bit as thrilling as their heavily punctuated name suggests, with this second offering stripped right down to the gnarled, bare bones of art punk."[1]

Jason Heller of The A.V. Club noted that their second album "crams splinters of rhythm into dark, gorgeous choruses and acidic shout-alongs. The venom is still there, and it's just as potent, but it tastes a little sweeter this time around"[3]

Track listing edit

All songs by Andrew Wilson, Michael Prain, Lachlan Anderson, except track 13, by Die! Die! Die! & H. Oliver.

  1. "Blinding" – 3:01
  2. "Britomart Sunset" – 2:17
  3. "Sideways Here We Come" – 4:32
  4. "Death to the Last Romantic" – 2:33
  5. "Whitehorses" – 4:41
  6. "A.T.T.I.T.U.D." – 2:56
  7. "Maybe: Definitely" – 2:27
  8. "People Talk" – 3:29
  9. "Promises, Promises" – 1:54
  10. "Hold Me" – 3:03
  11. "ECHOECHO" – 2:54
  12. "Throw a Fit" – 1:51
  13. "Blue Skies" – 3:55

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "NME review". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  2. ^ "AllMusic review". Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  3. ^ a b "The A.V. Club review". Archived from the original on 13 January 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  4. ^ "The Guardian review". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Metacritic page". Archived from the original on 2 September 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.

External links edit

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