Happy Birthday!
{{Infobox album
| name = Happy Birthday!
| type = studio
| artist = Modeselektor
| cover = Modeselektor-HappyBirthday.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|df=yes|2007|09|10}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = IDM
| length = {{duration|m=69|s=40}}
| label = BPitch Control
| producer = {{hlist|Gernot Bronsert|Sebastian Szary|Sascha Ring|Moritz Friedrich}}
| prev_title = Hello Mom!
| prev_year = 2005
| next_title = Monkeytown
| next_year = 2011
}}
Happy Birthday! is the second studio album by German electronic music duo Modeselektor. It was released on BPitch Control on 10 September 2007.
Critical reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/happy-birthday%21-mw0000586027|title=Modeselektor - Happy Birthday!|work=AllMusic|first=Brian|last=Way|access-date=20 December 2022}}
| rev2 = Pitchfork
| rev2score = 7.4/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10675-happy-birthday/|title=Modeselektor: Happy Birthday!|work=Pitchfork|first=Mark|last=Pytlik|date=17 September 2007|access-date=20 December 2022}}
}}
Mark Pytlik of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.4 out of 10, saying, "what's interesting about Happy Birthday! isn't just that it fuses together the most unfashionable or discarded elements of electronic music's recent history, but that it manages to sound so fresh in doing so."
Track listing
{{Track listing
| title1 = Happy Birthday
| length1 = 4:03
| title2 = Godspeed
| length2 = 5:46
| title3 = 2000007
| note3 = featuring TTC
| length3 = 4:11
| title4 = Let Your Love Grow
| note4 = featuring Apparat and Paul St. Hilaire
| length4 = 5:25
| title5 = Em Ocean
| length5 = 1:54
| title6 = Sucker Pin
| length6 = 6:10
| title7 = Edgar
| length7 = 3:53
| title8 = Hyper Hyper
| note8 = featuring Otto Von Schirach
| length8 = 5:17
| title9 = BMI
| length9 = 4:29
| title10 = The Dark Side of the Frog
| length10 = 0:52
| title11 = The Dark Side of the Sun
| note11 = featuring Puppetmastaz
| length11 = 3:34
| title12 = Déboutonnet
| note12 = featuring Siriusmo
| length12 = 4:23
| title13 = The Black Block
| length13 = 5:41
| title14 = The First Rebirth
| length14 = 4:39
| title15 = The White Flash
| note15 = featuring Thom Yorke
| length15 = 4:49
| title16 = Late Check-Out
| length16 = 0:38
| title17 = The Wedding Toccata Theme
| length17 = 3:53
| title18 = (I Can't Sleep) Without Music
| note18 = featuring Maxïmo Park
| length18 = 3:32
| total_length = 73:28
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = iTunes edition bonus track
| title19 = Get Wasted in Silence
| length19 = 2:58
| total_length = 76:26
}}
Charts
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| {{album chart|France|104|artist=Modeselektor|album=Happy+Birthday!|rowheader=true|accessdate=20 December 2022}} |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Discogs master|25789|Happy Birthday!}}
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