Yours Truly, Angry Mob

Yours Truly, Angry Mob
Studio album by Kaiser Chiefs
Released	26 February 2007
Recorded	Hook End Studio, Berkshire: September - October, 2006
Genre	Indie rock
Length	44:44
Label	B-Unique (UK) Universal Motown (US)
Producer	Stephen Street
Kaiser Chiefs chronology
Employment (2005) Yours Truly, Angry Mob (2007) Off with Their Heads (2008)
Singles from Yours Truly, Angry Mob
"Ruby" Released: 5 February 2007 "Everything Is Average Nowadays" Released: 21 May 2007 "The Angry Mob" Released: 20 August 2007 "Love's Not a Competition (But I'm Winning)" Released: 12 November 2007

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
BBC	Positive[2]
Drowned In Sound	[3]
The Guardian	[4]
NME	[5]
OMM	[6]
Pitchfork Media	5.0/10[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]

Yours Truly, Angry Mob is the second album by English rock band Kaiser Chiefs. It was released on 23 February 2007 in Belgium and the Netherlands, 26 February 2007 in the rest of the world by B-Unique Records and in March in North America by Universal Motown. Produced by Stephen Street, who produced the band's debut album Employment, Yours Truly, Angry Mob is lyrically darker and more socially aware than its predecessor, with tracks dealing with street crime, violence, fame, and the inaccuracy of tabloid articles. The song "Boxing Champ" features drummer Nick Hodgson on lead vocals.

Album information

The band had earlier revealed to NME in October 2006 that they had recorded 22 songs and hoped to whittle that number down to 13 or 14 for the final album.^[9] Additionally, in July 2006 the band revealed to Gigwise that they'd hoped to have the album released by Valentine's Day 2007.^[10] The album was preceded by the release of lead single "Ruby" on 19 February.^[11][12][13] It became the band's first, and to date, only, number one single in the British singles charts. The album reached #1 in the United Kingdom and the band released singles "Everything is Average Nowadays" on 21 May 2007 and "The Angry Mob" on 20 August 2007. The final single "Love's Not a Competition (But I'm Winning)" was released as a collectors edition 7" only single on 12 November 2007, with The Little Ones' cover of "Everything Is Average Nowadays" as a B-side.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Ricky Wilson, Andrew White, Simon Rix, Nick Baines, and Nick Hodgson. 

• In Europe, Asia and America, "Boxing Champ" and "Learnt My Lesson Well" were added together to make one track, at a running time of 5:25.
• In Japan, "Boxing Champ" and "Everything Is Average Nowadays" were added together to make one track, at a running time of 4:15.

Critical reception

Critical response to Yours Truly, Angry Mob was generally positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 61, based on 29 reviews.^[14]

• Spin (p. 92) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] marches through its baker's dozen of punk-tinged pop songs with a prickly sense of purpose."

• Q magazine (p. 106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he eccentric twists bolster Yours Truly's main thrust....The chorus among choruses belongs to the decidedly unaverage 'Everything Is Average Nowadays'..."

• Uncut (p. 80) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir second album manages to be full of surprises, while never straying too far from what you'd expect."

• CMJ (p. 39) - "The band, in love as ever with the Britpop tradition that spawned them, offers another collection of swaggering uptempo guitar tracks that are full of big, singalong choruses..."

• Q magazine (p. 84) - Ranked #13 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2007" -- "'The Angry Mob' was the definitive illustration of their maturing lyrical wit and musical brawn."

• Mojo (p. 98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Opener 'Ruby' is a foot-to-the-floor, festival monster-in-waiting, while 'Highroyds' recalls Blur's effervescent, buzzsaw pop."

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