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      • Elastica is the debut studio album by English alternative rock band Elastica. It was released in March 1995 through Deceptive Records in the UK and DCG/Geffen Records internationally. The album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. This is the only album to feature the original line-up, and guitarist Donna Matthews.


      Reception



      Elastica was well-received critically. The Los Angeles Times opined that "the smart, sassy savagings of losers and poseurs are a refreshing advance from grunge's gloomy self-absorption." The Independent concluded that "it is, yes, new new wave, and sometimes too close to old new wave: 'Vaseline' is Blondie and 'Waking Up' the Stranglers." Select ranked the album at number 9 in its list of the "50 albums of the year". In the U.S., the album was ranked as the sixth best album of the year by Mike Boehm in the Los Angeles Times, and the album was also highly rated by Rolling Stone, Spin and The Village Voice.
      In their retrospective review, AllMusic praised the album, writing "what makes Elastica such an intoxicating record is not only the way the 16 songs speed by in 40 minutes, but that they're nearly all classics" and that "hardly any new wave band made records this consistently rocking and melodic". BBC Music wrote "As albums that fall off a genre's radar go, Elastica's eponymous debut ranks high", calling it "a neglected gem" and the "blueprint for what Britpop should sound like".


      Commercial performance


      Elastica hit number one on the UK Albums Chart, becoming, at the time, the fastest-selling debut since Oasis' Definitely Maybe the previous year. The record also did well in the US, climbing to a peak of number 66 on the Billboard 200 after 11 weeks on the chart. Two months after its release, it had sold over 59,000 units in the US according to Nielsen Soundscan. By the end of 1995 it had sold approximately 1 million copies worldwide according to Billboard. Around half of these sales were in America where it was certified as gold in December 1995. By April 2000, sales in the UK were estimated by the band's Deceptive label at 270,000 copies.


      Legacy


      In 2013, NME called it the 191st greatest album of all time. The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2014, American LGBT magazine Metro Weekly ranked the album at number 38 in its list of the "50 Best Alternative Albums of the 90s". In 2017, Pitchfork listed the album at number six in its list "The 50 Best Britpop Albums".


      Track listing




      Personnel


      Elastica

      Justine Frischmann – vocals, guitar
      Donna Matthews – vocals, guitar
      Annie Holland – bass guitar
      Justin Welch – drums
      Additional personnel

      Dan Abnormal (Damon Albarn) – Additional keyboards on tracks 4, 8 & 11
      Production

      Marc Waterman – production, engineering, mixing
      Phil Vinall – mixing
      Alan Moulder – mixing
      Paul Tipler – mixing
      Bruce Lampcov – mixing
      John Leckie – mixing
      Mitti – mixing
      Juergen Teller – album photography
      Steve Lamacq – A&R
      Mark Kates – A&R


      Charts




      Certifications




      References




      External links


      Elastica at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
      Elastica (US version) at AllMusic

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