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Released | April 12, 2013 | |||
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Mosquito is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on April 12, 2013, by Interscope Records. The lead single " Sacrilege" was released on February 26, 2013. [3] "Despair" was released as the second single on July 19, 2013. [4]
Karen O described the album as "extremely lo-fi", explaining: "We had a shitty drum machine, a shitty sampled keyboard, tons of delay on the vocals. There's a real tone, character, and style to it." [5]
The full album was posted on Noisey's YouTube page featuring a track-by-track interview with the band on April 2, 2013. [6] On April 5, the band appeared on Late Show with David Letterman to perform "Sacrilege" accompanied by the gospel choir Broadway Inspirational Voices. [7] Yeah Yeah Yeahs performed the songs "Mosquito" and "Sacrilege" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on April 15. [8]
A music video for the title track, directed by B. Shimbe Shim, debuted on May 8, 2013. [9] The video for the second single "Despair" was directed by Patrick Daughters and premiered on June 21. [10] [11]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 75/100 [12] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [13] |
The A.V. Club | B+ [14] |
Entertainment Weekly | B− [15] |
The Guardian | [16] |
The Independent on Sunday | [17] |
NME | 7/10 [18] |
Pitchfork | 6.0/10 [19] |
Rolling Stone | [20] |
Slant Magazine | [21] |
Spin | 8/10 [22] |
Mosquito received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 75, based on 39 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". [12]
Mosquito entered the Billboard 200 at number five with 38,000 copies sold in its first week, earning the band their first top-10 album on the chart. [23] The album debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 9,150 copies, becoming the band's third consecutive top-10 album. [24]
Mosquito was ranked number 30 on NME's "50 Best Albums of 2013" list and number 40 on Vice's "Top 50 Albums of 2013" list. [25] [26]
All tracks are written by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | " Sacrilege" | 3:50 | |
2. | "Subway" |
| 5:16 |
3. | "Mosquito" |
| 2:59 |
4. | "Under the Earth" | Launay | 4:18 |
5. | "Slave" |
| 4:06 |
6. | "These Paths" |
| 5:03 |
7. | "Area 52" |
| 2:54 |
8. | "Buried Alive" (featuring Dr. Octagon) | 5:16 | |
9. | "Always" |
| 4:06 |
10. | "Despair" |
| 4:49 |
11. | "Wedding Song" | Sitek | 4:54 |
Total length: | 47:31 |
No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
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12. | "Subway" (NOLA demo) | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 3:54 |
13. | "Wedding Song" (acoustic) | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 2:53 |
14. | "Despair" (acoustic) | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 5:00 |
15. | "Mosquito" (live from Area 52) | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 3:24 |
Total length: | 62:42 |
Credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of Mosquito. [29]
Chart (2013) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums ( ARIA) [30] | 17 |
Austrian Albums ( Ö3 Austria) [31] | 44 |
Belgian Albums ( Ultratop Flanders) [32] | 57 |
Belgian Albums ( Ultratop Wallonia) [33] | 120 |
Canadian Albums ( Billboard) [34] | 10 |
Croatian Albums ( HDU) [35] | 23 |
French Albums ( SNEP) [36] | 128 |
German Albums ( Offizielle Top 100) [37] | 63 |
Greek Albums ( IFPI) [38] | 27 |
Irish Albums ( IRMA) [39] | 8 |
Japanese Albums ( Oricon) [40] | 54 |
Mexican Albums ( Top 100 Mexico) [41] | 66 |
Norwegian Albums ( VG-lista) [42] | 24 |
Scottish Albums ( OCC) [43] | 8 |
South Korean Albums ( Gaon) [44] | 88 |
Swiss Albums ( Schweizer Hitparade) [45] | 76 |
UK Albums ( OCC) [46] | 9 |
US Billboard 200 [47] | 5 |
US Top Alternative Albums ( Billboard) [48] | 2 |
US Top Rock Albums ( Billboard) [49] | 2 |
Region | Date | Format | Edition | Label | Ref(s) |
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Australia | April 12, 2013 |
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Modular | [50] [51] [52] [53] | |
Germany | Universal | [54] [55] [56] [57] | |||
LP | Standard | [58] | |||
United Kingdom | April 15, 2013 |
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Polydor | [59] [60] [61] [62] |
LP | Standard | [63] | |||
United States | April 16, 2013 |
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[64] [65] [66] [67] |
LP | Standard | [68] | |||
Canada |
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Deluxe | Universal | [69] [70] | |
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Standard | [71] [72] | |||
Japan | April 17, 2013 | CD | [28] | ||
Digital download |
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[73] [74] |
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Mosquito | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | April 12, 2013 | |||
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Length | 47:31 | |||
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Producer | ||||
Yeah Yeah Yeahs chronology | ||||
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Singles from Mosquito | ||||
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Mosquito is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on April 12, 2013, by Interscope Records. The lead single " Sacrilege" was released on February 26, 2013. [3] "Despair" was released as the second single on July 19, 2013. [4]
Karen O described the album as "extremely lo-fi", explaining: "We had a shitty drum machine, a shitty sampled keyboard, tons of delay on the vocals. There's a real tone, character, and style to it." [5]
The full album was posted on Noisey's YouTube page featuring a track-by-track interview with the band on April 2, 2013. [6] On April 5, the band appeared on Late Show with David Letterman to perform "Sacrilege" accompanied by the gospel choir Broadway Inspirational Voices. [7] Yeah Yeah Yeahs performed the songs "Mosquito" and "Sacrilege" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on April 15. [8]
A music video for the title track, directed by B. Shimbe Shim, debuted on May 8, 2013. [9] The video for the second single "Despair" was directed by Patrick Daughters and premiered on June 21. [10] [11]
Aggregate scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 75/100 [12] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [13] |
The A.V. Club | B+ [14] |
Entertainment Weekly | B− [15] |
The Guardian | [16] |
The Independent on Sunday | [17] |
NME | 7/10 [18] |
Pitchfork | 6.0/10 [19] |
Rolling Stone | [20] |
Slant Magazine | [21] |
Spin | 8/10 [22] |
Mosquito received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 75, based on 39 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". [12]
Mosquito entered the Billboard 200 at number five with 38,000 copies sold in its first week, earning the band their first top-10 album on the chart. [23] The album debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 9,150 copies, becoming the band's third consecutive top-10 album. [24]
Mosquito was ranked number 30 on NME's "50 Best Albums of 2013" list and number 40 on Vice's "Top 50 Albums of 2013" list. [25] [26]
All tracks are written by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|
1. | " Sacrilege" | 3:50 | |
2. | "Subway" |
| 5:16 |
3. | "Mosquito" |
| 2:59 |
4. | "Under the Earth" | Launay | 4:18 |
5. | "Slave" |
| 4:06 |
6. | "These Paths" |
| 5:03 |
7. | "Area 52" |
| 2:54 |
8. | "Buried Alive" (featuring Dr. Octagon) | 5:16 | |
9. | "Always" |
| 4:06 |
10. | "Despair" |
| 4:49 |
11. | "Wedding Song" | Sitek | 4:54 |
Total length: | 47:31 |
No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|
12. | "Subway" (NOLA demo) | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 3:54 |
13. | "Wedding Song" (acoustic) | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 2:53 |
14. | "Despair" (acoustic) | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 5:00 |
15. | "Mosquito" (live from Area 52) | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 3:24 |
Total length: | 62:42 |
Credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of Mosquito. [29]
Chart (2013) | Peak position |
---|---|
Australian Albums ( ARIA) [30] | 17 |
Austrian Albums ( Ö3 Austria) [31] | 44 |
Belgian Albums ( Ultratop Flanders) [32] | 57 |
Belgian Albums ( Ultratop Wallonia) [33] | 120 |
Canadian Albums ( Billboard) [34] | 10 |
Croatian Albums ( HDU) [35] | 23 |
French Albums ( SNEP) [36] | 128 |
German Albums ( Offizielle Top 100) [37] | 63 |
Greek Albums ( IFPI) [38] | 27 |
Irish Albums ( IRMA) [39] | 8 |
Japanese Albums ( Oricon) [40] | 54 |
Mexican Albums ( Top 100 Mexico) [41] | 66 |
Norwegian Albums ( VG-lista) [42] | 24 |
Scottish Albums ( OCC) [43] | 8 |
South Korean Albums ( Gaon) [44] | 88 |
Swiss Albums ( Schweizer Hitparade) [45] | 76 |
UK Albums ( OCC) [46] | 9 |
US Billboard 200 [47] | 5 |
US Top Alternative Albums ( Billboard) [48] | 2 |
US Top Rock Albums ( Billboard) [49] | 2 |
Region | Date | Format | Edition | Label | Ref(s) |
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Australia | April 12, 2013 |
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Modular | [50] [51] [52] [53] | |
Germany | Universal | [54] [55] [56] [57] | |||
LP | Standard | [58] | |||
United Kingdom | April 15, 2013 |
|
|
Polydor | [59] [60] [61] [62] |
LP | Standard | [63] | |||
United States | April 16, 2013 |
|
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|
[64] [65] [66] [67] |
LP | Standard | [68] | |||
Canada |
|
Deluxe | Universal | [69] [70] | |
|
Standard | [71] [72] | |||
Japan | April 17, 2013 | CD | [28] | ||
Digital download |
|
[73] [74] |
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