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Ugly (Screaming Females album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Ugly

| type = studio

| artist = Screaming Females

| cover = Screaming Female's Ugly album cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{start date|2012|4|3}}

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Indie rock, punk rock

| length = {{Duration|m=53|s=51}}

| label = Don Giovanni Records

| producer = Screaming Females

| prev_title = Castle Talk

| prev_year = 2010

| next_title = Rose Mountain

| next_year = 2015

}}

Ugly is the fifth studio album by Screaming Females, released on April 3, 2012, by Don Giovanni Records. The record was self produced by the band and engineered by Steve Albini in his studio Electrical Audio.{{cite web|last=Young|first=Alex|title=Screaming Females announce Ugly new album|url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/01/screaming-females-announce-ugly-new-album/|work=Consequence of Sound|accessdate=April 15, 2012|date=January 17, 2012}} The group embarked on a national tour to support the album on April 7, 2012.{{cite news|url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2012/04/screaming_females_hoboken.html|accessdate=April 8, 2012|author=Testa, Jim|date=April 7, 2012|title=Screaming Females hit the ground running in Hoboken|newspaper=New Jersey Star-Ledger}}

Track listing

All songs written by Screaming Females (Jarrett Dougherty, Mike "King Mike" Abbate, Marissa Paternoster).

  1. "It All Means Nothing"
  2. "Rotten Apple"
  3. "Extinction"
  4. "Red Hand"
  5. "High"
  6. "Expire"
  7. "Crow's Nest"
  8. "Tell Me No"
  9. "Leave It All Up To Me"
  10. "Doom 84"
  11. "Help Me"
  12. "Something Ugly"
  13. "Slow Birth"
  14. "It's Nice"

Reception

{{Album reviews

| MC = 83/100{{cite web|title=Ugly – Screaming Females|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/ugly/screaming-females|work=Metacritic|accessdate=April 15, 2012}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/ugly-mw0002315368|title = Ugly – Screaming Females | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|website = AllMusic}}

| rev2 = Alternative Press

| rev2score = {{rating|3.5|5}}It's hard to be down on a record that deftly rocks this hard. [May 2012, p.85]

| rev3 = The A.V. Club

| rev3Score = A−

| rev4 = Beats Per Minute

| rev4score = 80%{{cite web|url=https://beatsperminute.com/album-review-screaming-females-ugly/|title=Album Review: Screaming Females – Ugly|website=Beats Per Minute|last=Blistein|first=Jon|date=April 3, 2012|access-date=June 1, 2025}}

| rev5 = The Boston Phoenix

| rev5score = {{rating|3.5|4}}{{cite web|url=https://thephoenix.com/Boston/music/137089-screaming-females-ugly/|title=Screaming Females - Ugly|website=The Boston Phoenix|last=Weiss|first=Dan|date=April 17, 2012|access-date=June 1, 2025}}

| rev6 = Chicago Tribune

| rev6Score = {{rating|3.5|4}}{{cite news|last=Kot|first=Greg|title=Screaming Females: Ugly|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-04-02/entertainment/chi-screaming-females-album-review-ugly-review-20120402_1_album-review-rotten-apple-guitar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120408142624/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-04-02/entertainment/chi-screaming-females-album-review-ugly-review-20120402_1_album-review-rotten-apple-guitar|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 8, 2012|accessdate=April 15, 2012|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=April 2, 2012}}

| rev7 = Consequence of Sound

| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405203503/http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/04/album-review-screaming-females-ugly/|title=Album Review: Screaming Females – Ugly|website=Consequence of Sound|last=Kivel|first=Adam|date=April 2, 2012|access-date=June 1, 2025}}

| rev8 = Los Angeles Times

| rev8Score = {{rating|3.5|4}}

| rev9 = Paste

| rev9Score = 7.9/10

| rev10 = Pitchfork

| rev10Score = 8.0/10{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16539-ugly/ |title=Screaming Females: Ugly | Album Reviews |publisher=Pitchfork |date=April 25, 2012 |accessdate=September 5, 2015}}

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Todd Martens from the Los Angeles Times gave the album 3.5 stars out of four, saying that its "tracks unfurl like mini hard-rock suites".{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/04/album-review-screaming-females-ugly.html|author=Martens, Todd|title=Album review: Screaming Females' 'Ugly'|accessdate=April 8, 2012|date=April 2, 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}} Tyler Kane of Paste Magazine declared himself a "fan" of lead singer Marissa Paternoster's voice, as well as her "meaty, ground-covering guitar playing".{{cite news|url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/04/screaming-females-ugly.html|author=Kane, Tyler|newspaper=Paste Magazine|title=Screaming Females: Ugly|date=April 4, 2012|accessdate=April 8, 2012}} In his The A.V. Club review, Jason Heller called it a "grubby, triumphant call to action".{{cite web|last=Heller |first=Jason |url=https://www.avclub.com/screaming-females-ugly-1798172230 |title=Ugly · Screaming Females · Music Review · The A.V. Club |publisher=The A.V. Club |date= April 3, 2012|access-date=September 5, 2015}} Stereogum named Ugly their Album Of The Week saying "Itʼs almost not fair for an album to have this many great songs."{{cite web|author= |url=http://stereogum.com/991922/album-of-the-week-screaming-females-ugly/top-stories/lead-story/ |title=Album Of The Week: Screaming Females Ugly |publisher=Stereogum |date=April 3, 2012 |accessdate=September 5, 2015}} Pitchfork Media gave the album 8.0/10, writing that the album suggests the band may someday be worthy of writing about in a book such as Our Band Could Be Your Life.

The album was listed 21st on Stereogum's list of top 50 albums of 2012.{{cite web|author= |url=http://stereogum.com/1210661/stereogums-top-50-albums-of-2012/franchises/listomania/ |title=Stereogum's Top 50 Albums Of 2012 |publisher=Stereogum |date=December 5, 2012 |accessdate=September 5, 2015}}

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References

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