Life on Other Planets
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| Studio album by Supergrass | ||||
| Released | 30 September 2002 | |||
| Recorded | October 2001–March 2002, Mayfair Studios, Heliocentric Studios, Rockfield Studios | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 40:38 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Producer | Tony Hoffer | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| The Austin Chronicle |  |
| BBC | (Positive) |
| Blender | |
| Drowned in Sound | (7/10) |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
| Hot Press | (9/10) |
| NME | (7/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.6/10) |
| Rolling Stone | |
Life On Other Planets, or L.O.O.P as it is often abbreviated to, is the fourth album by English alternative rock band Supergrass. It is the first album that includes Rob Coombes as an official member of the band, and originally went under the working title of Get Lost. The American edition of the album included many bonus tracks and rare live editions. One of these live editions became infamous when it was discovered you can hear a gunshot in the background of the song. It peaked at #9 in the UK charts.
The band claim that much of the inspiration for this album was gleaned from a "working holiday" in the Côte d'Azur, Southern France together, listening to the French radio station Nostalgie and watching Carl Sagan documentaries on the cosmos.Carl Sagan and Douglas Adams are in fact mentioned on the reverse of Life On Other Planets under a list of people Supergrass would like to thank.
The naming of the album was influenced by this excursion, but also by a telescope which qualified astrophysicist and keyboard player Rob Coombes, would bring with him to the recording studio in order to see the planets; "...we got fascinated on everything above us and came up with the title," explained Mick Quinn.
The band hired an outside producer, Tony Hoffer, for the record, having felt that their last release, Supergrass, lacked some of the urgency of their previous albums: "He helped us keep the takes quite short and sweet", says Danny Goffey. "We really didn't mess around because he kept us moving. If we had done it on our own again, we'd just get really analytical and start crying and trying to mend things that weren't broken."
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