City Club (album)

2016 studio album by The Growlers

City Club

Studio album by

The Growlers

Released| September 30, 2016
Recorded| 2016
Genre|

* Garage rock
* synthpop
* post-punk revival
* new wave

Length| 49:36
Label| Cult Records
Producer| Julian Casablancas, Shawn Everett
The Growlers chronology
| Chinese Fountain
(2014)  | City Club
(2016)  | Casual Acquaintances
(2018)

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Singles from  City Club

1. "City Club"
Released: 2016
2. "I'll Be Around"
Released: 2016
3. "Night Ride"
Released: 2016

City Club is the fifth studio album by the Southern California rock band The Growlers, released on 30 September 2016 by Cult Records.[1]

## Track listing

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All songs by Brooks Nielsen and Matt Taylor, except "Night Ride" (Kyle Mullarky/Nielsen/Taylor) and "Blood of a Mutt" (Mullarky/Nielsen).[2]

No.| Title| Length

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1.| "City Club"| 3:16
2.| "I'll Be Around"| 4:47
3.| "Vacant Lot"| 3:01
4.| "Night Ride"| 4:11
5.| "Dope on a Rope"| 4:10
6.| "When You Were Made"| 3:38
7.| "Rubber & Bone"| 3:54
8.| "The Daisy Chain"| 3:45
9.| "World Unglued"| 3:30
10.| "Neverending Line"| 2:43
11.| "Too Many Times"| 3:52
12.| "Blood of a Mutt"| 5:26
13.| "Speed Living"| 3:23
Total length:| 49:36

Other Outtakes

No.| Title| Length

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1.| "Late Bloomers"| 3:56
2.| "Heaven and Hell"| 3:38

## Critical reception

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Professional ratingsAggregate scores

Source| Rating
Metacritic| 64/100[3]
Review scores
Source| Rating
Allmusic| [4]
Clash| 7/10[5]
Drowned In Sound| 5/10[6]

City Club received mixed to positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 64, based on six reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[3] In a mixed review, Jack Doherty, writing for Drowned in Sound, criticized the sound of the band, saying it was outdated. Doherty said "on the whole City Club is full of the type of synth funk nonsense that should have been left alone in the late Noughties."[6] Shannon Cotton, writing for Clash, gave a more endearing review. Cotton said the album had "a distinct retro vibe. Most of the tracks possess a nostalgic groove which wouldn’t render them out of place in an episode of the enigmatic Twin Peaks".[5] In a mixed review, Christopher Monger, writing for AllMusic, said the album might attract new fans, but alienate long time fans, saying the album "may not be what fans were expecting, but it's by far the Growlers' most immediate and accessible collection of songs to date."[4]

## Charts

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Chart (2016)  | Peak
position

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US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[7] | 6

## References

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1. ^ "The Growlers Release New Album 'City Club' With Cult!". Retrieved September 29, 2016.
2. ^ "Photographic image of album sleeve" (JPG). Discogs.com. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
3. ^ a b "City Club by The Growlers". Metacritic.
4. ^ a b Monger, James. "City Club - The Growlers". Allmusic. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
5. ^ a b Cotton, Shannon (September 29, 2016). "The Growlers - City Club". Clash. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
6. ^ a b Doherty, Jack (September 30, 2016). "Album Review: The Growlers - City Club". Drowned In Sound. Archived from the original on May 22, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
7. ^ "The Growlers Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 11, 2016.

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The Growlers

* Brooks Nielsen
* Matt Taylor
* Kyle Straka
* Brad Bowers
* Adam Wolcott Smith
* Richard Gowen

Studio albums|

* Are You In or Out?
* Hot Tropics
* Hung at Heart
* Chinese Fountain
* City Club
* Natural Affair

EPs|

* Growlers / Thee Ludds
* Gilded Pleasures
* Gay Thoughts / Uncle Sam's A Dick

Compilation albums|

* Casual Acquaintances

Singles|

* "Gay Thoughts"
* "Uncle Sam's A Dick"
* "Gilded Pleasures"
* "Someday"
* "I'll Be Around"
* "City Club"
* "California"
* "Monotonia"
* "Lonely This Christmas"
* "Who Loves The Scum?"
* "Natural Affair"
* "Foghorn Town"
* "Try Hard Fool"
* "Pulp of Youth"
* "Natural Affair (Extended Edition)"

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