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Released
  
9 January 2012

Artist
  
The Maccabees

Label
  
Polydor Records

Awards
  
NME Award for Best Album

Length
  
52:51

Release date
  
9 January 2012

Genres
  
Indie rock, Post-rock

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Recorded
  
Rockfield Studios, Monmouthshire

Producer
  
The Maccabees Tim Goldsworthy Bruno Ellingham Jag Jago

Given to the Wild (2012)
  
Marks To Prove It (2015)

Similar
  
The Maccabees albums, Indie rock albums

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Given to the Wild is the third studio album by English indie rock band The Maccabees. The album was first released in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2012, where it debuted at number four on the UK Albums Chart and number thirty-one on the Irish Albums Chart. The album has seen four single releases: "Pelican" (released on 30 December 2011), "Feel to Follow" (4 March 2012), "Went Away" (28 May 2012), and "Ayla" (10 September 2012).

Contents

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Reception

Metacritic has calculated a Metascore of 69 out of 100 for the album, based on 20 reviews, giving the album "generally favourable reviews". NME gave the album a 9/10.

The album was nominated for the 2012 Mercury Prize.

Recording

The band worked on the 13-track album, their third, at Rockfield Studios with Tim Goldsworthy and Bruno Ellingham (LCD Soundsystem, Massive Attack) over late 2010 to 2011. They also worked on large parts of the record with producer Jag Jago at their rehearsal space in London's Elephant and Castle district before decamping to Suffolk to finish the record at Decoy Studios with Cenzo Townshend and Sean Julliard.

The band have said they took inspiration from "disparate musical peers" such as The Stone Roses, Kate Bush and David Bowie during the recording of the LP, which is the follow-up to 2009's Wall of Arms.

Speaking about the title of the album, singer Orlando Weeks told the NME: "'Given to the wild' is the first line on the album and was a title idea we had pretty early on. But it wasn't until we'd finished recording that we could come back to it and know that it suited, it just felt right."

Singles

  • "Pelican" was released as the album's lead single on 30 December 2011. The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 87. It appeared in the video game Forza Horizon.
  • "Feel to Follow" was released on 3 February 2012. The song peaked to number 188 on the UK Singles Chart.
  • "Went Away", the third single from Given to the Wild, was released on 28 May 2012.
  • "Ayla" was the fourth single to be released on 10 September 2012.

    • Other songs

  • The song "Unknow" appeared in the video games Sleeping Dogs and Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012).
  • The song "Give to the Wild (Intro)" appeared in Series 21 - Episode 6 of Topgear
  • The song "Grew Up at Midnight" appeared at the end of the final scene in the film Steve Jobs.

    • Chart performance

    On 12 January 2012 Given to the Wild entered the Irish Albums Chart at number 31.

    Songs

    1Given to the Wild (intro)2:11
    2Child4:31
    3Feel to Follow3:29

    References

    Given to the Wild Wikipedia
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