| American Whip | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Joy Zipper |
| Cover: | American Whip.jpg |
| Released: | 2002 |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 41:40 |
| Language: | English |
| Label: | 13 Amp Recordings Records |
| Producer: |
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| Prev Title: | Joy Zipper |
| Prev Year: | 1999 |
| Next Title: | The Stereo and God |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
American Whip is the second album by the New York dream pop duo Joy Zipper released in 2002.[2]
All songs written by Vincent Cafiso, except where noted.[3]
The BBC's Richard Banks praised "charming melodies, heart-melting harmonies and hazy lo-fi guitars" forming "an intoxicating alt-pop nectar", noting a formula little-changed from their first album. He also discerned a darker side beneath the "saccharine" surface.[4] Pitchfork rated it 7.5/10, calling it "engaging and sharply-drawn", rejecting deeper meanings.[5] IGN gave it 8.5/10.[6]
Drowned in Sound scored it 5/10, saying "Joy Zipper are the type of band that think shrouding their songs in a sheet of sub-Kevin Shields drone, drugged-up affectations and bastardised Bacharach melodies makes their pedestrian pop sound urgent, vital and 'edgy.' It doesn't."[7] Uncut called it a new My Bloody Valentine album in all but name, scoring it 4/10.[8]