Music For Men
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| Studio album by Gossip | ||||
| Released | June 19, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | Shangri La Studios, Malibu | |||
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| Length | 43:27 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Rick Rubin | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 69/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| BBC Music | favorable |
| Drowned in Sound | 5/10 |
| The Guardian | |
| The Independent | |
| Pitchfork Media | 6.4/10 |
| Planet Sound | 4/10 |
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Music for Men is the fourth studio album by the American band Gossip, released in 2009 by Columbia Records.
Music for Men received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 69, based on 26 reviews. The album's production was criticized due to its "loud" sound quality. Albums such as this have been mastered so loud that additional digital distortion is generated during the production of the CD. The trend, known as the loudness war, has become very common on modern rock CDs. In 2010, Music for Men earned Gossip a nomination for Outstanding Music Artist at the 21st GLAAD Media Awards.
The album was a massive success in Europe with sales of 280,000 in France alone, where it also spent 138 weeks in the chart.
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