America Give Up

America Give Up is the debut studio album by American indie rock[2][12] band Howler. The album was released on January 16, 2012, by Rough Trade Records.

America Give Up
Studio album by
Howler
ReleasedEU: January 16, 2012[1]
USA: January 17, 2012[1]
GenreIndie rock,[2] surf music,[2] garage rock
Length31.09
LabelRough Trade
ProducerChris Heidman
Howler chronology
This One's Different
(2011)		 America Give Up
(2012)		 World Of Joy
(2014)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The A.V. ClubB [4]
BBCfavourable[5]
The Fly[6]
The Guardian[7]
musicOMH[8]
NME [9]
Pitchfork[10]
Q Magazine[11]

On NME's top 50 albums of 2012, America Give Up was listed at #20.

Track listing

All songs written by Howler, except track 9 written by Howler and Steve Cruze.

No.TitleLength
1."Beach Sluts"3:09
2."Back to the Grave"2:12
3."This One's Different"2:33
4."America"2:57
5."Too Much Blood"4:06
6."Wailing (Making Out)"2:01
7."Pythagorean Fearem"2:27
8."Told You Once"2:53
9."Back of Your Neck"3:42
10."Free Drunk"3:27
11."Black Lagoon"2:29
Total length:31:50

Music videos

The video for "Back of Your Neck" was released on YouTube under RoughTradeRecordsUK's account. It clocks at 3:11. The video mainly shows Howler "mucking about" in Minneapolis, filmed by a quite grainy camera. The only other really different scene is of Howler playing the song in a studio, mainly concentrating on Jordan. This footage seems to be made for the actual promo. There is a behind the scenes video on NME.com that was released before the actual video for "Back of Your Neck" It was directed by Robert Semmer and despite the fact that it was the shortened, edited, version of the song, the lyrics "but both of them fucking died" and "smoking as high as a crackpot" are uncensored.

Charts
Charts (2012) Peak
position
US Billboard Heatseekers[13] 30

References
  1. "Howler - America Give Up (Official site)". Archived from the original on January 14, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  2. Jon Caramanica (January 19, 2012). "Some Smoother Edges, Soon to Come". The New York Times. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  3. All Music Guide review
  4. The A.V. Club review
  5. bbc review
  6. "The Fly review". Archived from the original on January 19, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  7. The Guardian review
  8. musicomh review
  9. NME review
  11. Feb. 2012 p. 107 — Q Magazine review
  12. Harriet Jennings (January 15, 2012). "Howler: 'There's Nothing Really Serious About This Band'". This Is Fake DIY. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  13. "Howler - Heatseekers chart". Billboard. Retrieved January 14, 2015.



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