The Dissociatives (album)
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| Studio album by The Dissociatives | ||||
| Released | 5 April 2004 | |||
| Recorded | Late 2003 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 43:42 | |||
| Label | Eleven | |||
| Producer | Paul Mac | |||
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| AllMusic |    |
| Drowned in Sound | 9/10 |
| musicOMH | favourable |
| Pitchfork | 2.5/10 |
| PopMatters |   |
The Dissociatives is the sole album by the Australian duo of the same name, released in April 2004 by record label Eleven. Two singles were released from the album, "Somewhere Down the Barrel" and "Young Man, Old Man (You Ain't Better Than the Rest)".
Daniel Johns and Australian dance music producer Paul Mac met when Paul Mac remixed the Silverchair song "Freak" off the Freak Show album. The two worked on the experimental I Can't Believe It's Not Rock EP released in 2000.
In mid-2003, Daniel Johns and Paul Mac got together to produce the album that would become The Dissociatives, recording the basic tracks in London and finishing it off in Sydney and Newcastle. The pair produced all the instrumental tracks and vocals themselves with Johns writing the lyrics and recording them in Newcastle.
The pair described the music and lyrics in the April 2004 Australian edition of Rolling Stone magazine: "The music is, for me, a combination of excitement, happiness, rambunctiousness and vicaciousness, done to whimsy," Johns said. "I'd add with a hint of melancholy, but it's more outweighed by joy," added Mac. Rolling Stone Australia described the sound of the debut single as a "happy sort of Radiohead."
The Dissociatives was released on 4 April 2004, by record label Eleven. The album was released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions. "Somewhere Down The Barrel" entered the Australian Top 40 charts on debut on 15 March 2004 and was one of the five most played tracks on Australian radio in early March of that year. Given that Silverchair sold more albums in Australia in the 1990s than any other Australian artist, the debut album "the Dissociatives" was expected to be one of the best selling albums released in Australia when it was released on 5 April in that country.
The Dissociatives has received a generally positive critical reception.
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