Something to Write Home About
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| Studio album by The Get Up Kids | ||||
| Released | September 21, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | June - July 1999 Mad Hatter Studios Silverlake, California |
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| Genre | Emo,pop punk | |||
| Length | 45:26 | |||
| Label | Vagrant | |||
| Producer | The Get Up Kids, Chad Blinman, Alex Brahl | |||
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| Singles from Something to Write Home About | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Drowned in Sound | 9/10 |
| LAS Magazine | Unfavorable |
| NME | 7/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 2/10 |
| PopMatters | (favorable) |
Something to Write Home About is the second studio album by American rock band The Get Up Kids, released on September 21, 1999. The album was produced by The Get Up Kids themselves, with co-producers Chad Blinman and Alex Brahl. Blinman also recorded and mixed the album, with Brahl assisting with additional engineering. The album was a financial success, peaking at #31 on Billboards Heatseekers 200 albums chart in North America, and gathered a great amount of critical acclaim. Something to Write Home About is the first Get Up Kids album to include James Dewees playing keyboards.
After The Get Up Kids' previous album, Four Minute Mile brought major label offers, the band decided to stick with an indie label and sign with Vagrant Records for their next album after a short and unproductive time with Mojo Records. Something to Write Home About brought the band an increasing fan base, as their sound became slightly more radio-oriented, with more melodic choruses and hooks. The album was included in Rock Sound's 101 Modern Classics list at number 97.
At the time the band signed onto Vagrant Records, the label was still primarily a much smaller independent label. Before the album went into production, the label's co-owner John Cohen had to borrow money from his parents, who mortgaged their house in order to fund the production of the album. At least one of the songs were inspired by the band's tumultuous split with Doghouse Records.
The album was recorded over the course of two months in June and July 1999, with Chad Blinman at the Mad Hatter Recording Studios in Silverlake, California. The band produced the record themselves, with co-producers Chad Blinman - who mixed the album - and Alex Brahl, who did additional engineering on the album and would later go onto co-found Curb Appeal Records with The Get Up Kids guitarist Jim Suptic and Almon Duffy.
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