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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 |
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 |
| 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 |
| Deluxe | Universal | [69] [70] | |
| Standard | [71] [72] | |||
Japan | April 17, 2013 | CD | [28] | ||
Digital download |
| [73] [74] |
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