Pull the Pin

Pull the Pin is the sixth studio album by Stereophonics, released in the UK on 15 October 2007. A Stereophonics newsletter released the "Pull the Pin" album artwork to subscribers. The cover was also shown to MySpace users that had added the band in a bulletin. The album reached number 1 in the UK selling 49,012 copies in its first week, becoming the band's fifth consecutive album to do so.

The taster track "Bank Holiday Monday" had its world premier on Radio 1's Chris Moyles Show on Tuesday 1 May 2007 and was made available for digital download on Monday 28 May 2007 from online retailers.

"Daisy Lane" is about a young boy who was stabbed to death on the street where Kelly Jones lives. He told The Sun: "It was something I saw looking out of my very own window. I saw a row of seven policeman searching an area of my street. Then I read in the paper that they'd been searching for a knife as this kid had been stabbed." The band's newsletter on 24 July 2007 confirmed details and artwork of the first 'proper' single to be released from the album. "It Means Nothing" was released in the UK on 24 September 2007, followed by My Friends on 10 December 2007.

Reception

Initial critical response to Pull the Pin was generally mixed to positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 46, based on 12 reviews and the album was mostly well received by fans of the band.^[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Kelly Jones, except where noted.

1. "Soldiers Make Good Targets" – 4.37
2. "Pass the Buck" – 3.24
3. "It Means Nothing" – 3.48
4. "Bank Holiday Monday" – 3.14
5. "Daisy Lane" – 3.37
6. "Stone" – 4.17
7. "My Friends" – 3.35
8. "I Could Lose Ya" (Kelly Jones, Richard Jones, Javier Weyler) – 3.17
9. "Bright Red Star" – 3.39
10. "Ladyluck" – 3.45
11. "Crush" – 3.56
12. "Drowning" – 5.08

Charts

Worldwide Sales: 314,300

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