Album is the debut album by the indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band Girls

Girls (band)

Girls is an indie rock band from San Francisco, California. Made up of two key members, Christopher Owens who is the main writer and Chet "JR" White who plays bass and produces. The band's lead singer, Christopher Owens, is a former member of the Children of God cult...

. It was released September 22, 2009 on True Panther Sounds

True Panther Sounds

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Reception

Initial critical response to Album was extremely positive. At Metacritic

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, which assigns a normalized

Standard score

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 rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average

Weighted mean

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 score of 80, based on 22 reviews. Album was awarded the fifth spot on Spin Magazine's best albums of 2009 list and 10th on Pitchfork Media

Pitchfork Media

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's "The Top 50 Albums of 2009" list.

Track listing

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue #
United States	September 22, 2009	True Panther Sounds	CD	TRUE-010
			LP	TRUE-010-1
United Kingdom	September 28, 2009	Fantasytrashcan	CD	FANTASY003
			LP	FANTASY003LP
Australia	October 10, 2009	Pod/Inertia	CD (with 2 bonus tracks)	PODCD0735
Japan	October 21, 2009	Turnstile/Fantasytrashcan	CD (with 4 bonus tracks)	YRCG-90027
Brazil	June 28, 2010	Lab 344	CD (with 2 bonus tracks)	5051083047111

Credits

• All songs produced by Chet "JR" White.
• All music performed by Christopher Owens and Chet "JR" White.
• Drums on track 10 by Tom Marzella.
• Drums on tracks 2, 3, 5, and 12 by Garett Godard.
• Beach sounds on track 7 produced by Myles Benham Cooper.
• Album cover art by Christopher Owens.
• All girls album photos by Christopher Owens.
• Band photo by Sandy Kim.
• Recorded in San Francisco and Santa Cruz in 2008.
• Mixed by John Goodmanson with Girls in Seattle in 2009.
• Mastered by John Golden with Girls in Ventura in 2009.