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America Give Up by Howler
America Give Up is an album by Howler, released in 2012. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Back Of Your Neck”, on 1 list with a best position of #100.
America Give Up, Howler's debut album, came out on Rough Trade on January 16, 2012, and it arrived with the British hype machine already at full throttle. NME had named the Minneapolis band its No. 3 Best New Band of 2011 and stuck frontman Jordan Gatesmith on its Cool List, and the paper later put the album at 20 in its top 50 of 2012.
Gatesmith had started Howler in 2010, at nineteen, basically because he was bored, after a string of short-lived bands including a metal outfit. That restlessness is all over this record: scrappy, reverb-soaked garage pop with surf in its veins and a sneer on its lip. It came after the This One's Different EP and was followed by World of Joy, and "Back of Your Neck" is the song that made the countdowns. The band took it out to festivals like SXSW and Reading & Leeds.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from America Give Up on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back Of Your Neck | 1 | #100 | – | 2012 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.