Crush Songs | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Karen O |
Cover: | Karen O - Crush Songs.png |
Border: | yes |
Recorded: | 2006–2010 |
Label: | Cult |
Prev Year: | 2009 |
Next Title: | Live from Crush Palace |
Next Year: | 2015 |
Crush Songs is the debut solo studio album by Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead vocalist Karen O. It was released on September 5, 2014, by Cult Records. "Rapt" was released as the album's lead single on July 29, 2014.[1]
The songs were written at a time of emotional discomfort for Karen O. "When I was 27 I crushed a lot. I wasn't sure I'd ever fall in love again. These songs were written + recorded in private around this time. They are the soundtrack to what was an ever continuing love crusade", she explained in a statement posted on her website.[2]
Crush Songs received modest praise upon release. Drowned in Sound called it a collection of "sketches for finished songs that never quite were," and noting if it had "come out in 2007, you'd probably call it an anti-folk record." Nevertheless, there was praise from the magazine who acknowledged while this was essentially "a collection of seven-year-old demos that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs leader had been sitting on," it also is "more of a record to crush on than fall in love with, but free it from expectations and it'll take a small part of your heart."[3] The Line of Best Fit called the album "cute, quaint even," but stated "unless you're president of her fanclub, utterly throwaway."[4] Pitchfork gave the album a score of 5.8 saying, "perhaps it’s too modest: these are all very short songs, with only three out of fourteen surpassing two minutes."[5]
Crush Songs debuted at number 61 on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 1,336 copies.[6]
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Crush Songs.[7]
Chart (2014) | Peak position |
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Australian Hitseekers Albums (ARIA)[8] | 6 |
Irish Independent Albums (IRMA)[9] | 11 |
Region | Date | Format | Label | |
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Australia | September 5, 2014 | Cult | [10] [11] | |
Germany | [12] [13] [14] | |||
Ireland | [15] [16] | |||
United Kingdom | September 8, 2014 | [17] [18] [19] | ||
United States | September 9, 2014 | [20] [21] [22] |
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