Bad Blood (Bastille album)
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| Studio album by Bastille | ||||
| Released | 4 March 2013 | |||
| Recorded | June 2012 – January 2013 London, United Kingdom |
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| Length | 44:30 (Original release) 83:15 (All This Bad Blood) |
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Virgin EMI (UK) Virgin (US) Universal Music Group (Worldwide) |
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| Producer | Mark Crew, Dan Smith | |||
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| All This Bad Blood | ||||
Cover of reissue
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 58/100 |
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| AllMusic |    |
| Consequence of Sound | D |
| DIY | 8/10 |
| Drowned in Sound | 6/10 |
| The Guardian | |
| NME | 5/10 |
| Now | 2/5 |
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| PopMatters | 8/10 |
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Bad Blood (stylised as "BΔD BLOOD") is the debut studio album by British band Bastille. It was released on 4 March 2013 in the United Kingdom, and on 3 September 2013 in the United States, and features the singles "Overjoyed", "Bad Blood", "Flaws", "Pompeii", "Laura Palmer" and "Things We Lost in the Fire". The album was recorded in London and produced by lead-singer, Dan Smith, and Mark Crew.
The record debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, has spent three non-consecutive weeks at the top, and was certified platinum in the UK. It has also charted on the US Billboard 200, as well as in several other countries.
An extended version of the album, All This Bad Blood, was released on 25 November 2013, and featured the single "Of the Night".
It was nominated for British Album of the Year at the 2014 BRIT Awards.
The band initially included two other musicians on violin and cello, but dwindled down to the four current members. Smith, Wood, Farquarson, and Simmons played together before the band was started, but all of their first songs were written and recorded by Smith. On 4 July 2011 they released their debut single "Flaws"/"Icarus" through London-based independent record label Young & Lost Club, released on 7" vinyl limited to 300 copies. The single now can sell for over £300. In late 2011 they self-released their debut EP Laura Palmer as a digital download and on CD.
They signed to Virgin Records and released their second single "Overjoyed", but due to little promotion for the single, it failed to chart. In early 2012, they also released the mixtape Other People's Heartache as a free download, which featured covers of various different songs. They began recording their debut album in June 2012, which Dan Smith said "we basically made the album in a studio the size of a cupboard, so it was one extreme to the other." They released a third single, "Bad Blood", in August 2012, which managed to chart a number 90 in the UK Singles Chart. In late 2012 they released Other People's Heartache Pt 2, and had finished recording their debut album, but were deciding on the track list. They re-released "Flaws" in October 2012 on vinyl and digital download, which managed to chart at number 21 in the UK Singles Chart. In support of the single's release, they headlined their short Flaws Tour.
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