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Zipper Down

Zipper Down is the fourth studio album from American rock band Eagles of Death Metal. It was released on October 2, 2015. The first single, "Complexity", was made available for streaming on Pitchfork in June 2015. The entire album was made available to stream in an exclusive by NPR on their website, on September 23, 2015. "Oh Girl", "I Love You All The Time" and "Complexity" were previously on Boots Electric's first album Honkey Kong and were remade for Zipper Down.

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Zipper Down
Studio album by
Eagles of Death Metal
ReleasedOctober 2, 2015 (2015-10-02)
Studio
Genre
Length34:16
LabelDowntown Recordings
ProducerJosh Homme
Eagles of Death Metal chronology
Heart On
(2008) 		Zipper Down
(2015) 		EODM Presents Boots Electric Performing the Best Songs We Never Wrote
(2019)

Zipper Down is the fourth studio album from American rock band Eagles of Death Metal. It was released on October 2, 2015.2 The first single, "Complexity", was made available for streaming on Pitchfork in June 2015.3 The entire album was made available to stream in an exclusive by NPR on their website, on September 23, 2015.4 "Oh Girl", "I Love You All The Time" and "Complexity" were previously on Boots Electric's first album Honkey Kong and were remade for Zipper Down.

Songs

The album includes a cover of "Save a Prayer" by Duran Duran. The two bands played the song together on TFI Friday.567 Following the November 2015 Paris attacks, a Facebook campaign was launched to get the cover of "Save a Prayer" to no. 1.8 Duran Duran stated that they would donate all of their royalties from the cover to charity.9 The song ultimately peaked at number 53 for the chart dated the week after the attack.10

Following Duran Duran's lead, Eagles of Death Metal announced that they would donate any publishing and mastering fees for covers of their song "I Love You All the Time" to charity, with Homme stating, "If you're a country artist, a DJ, death metal, it doesn't matter, cover that song and we'll donate the publishing." They challenged distribution platforms, including Amazon, iTunes, and Spotify, to donate any of their revenues from covers of the song to charity as well.11 To date, the artists who have covered the song in response include Florence and the Machine, Imagine Dragons, Jimmy Eat World, Kings of Leon, My Morning Jacket, and Matt Cameron of Pearl Jam.12

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?6.9/1013
Metacritic73/10014
Review scores
SourceRating
Classic RockStarStarStar18
Consequence of SoundB17
Exclaim!8/1016
NMEStarStarStarStar15
Pitchfork7.3/1019
Sputnikmusic3.3/520

Zipper Down received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 73, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 14 reviews.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jesse Hughes and Joshua Homme, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Complexity"
2:46
2."Silverlake (K.S.O.F.M.)" 3:35
3."Got a Woman" 2:02
4."I Love You All the Time"
  • Hughes
  • Homme
  • Nishita
3:09
5."Oh Girl"
  • Hughes
  • Homme
  • Nishita
4:08
6."Got the Power" 3:28
7."Skin-Tight Boogie" 3:12
8."Got a Woman (Slight Return)" 0:41
9."The Deuce" 3:06
10."Save a Prayer" (Duran Duran cover)
4:40
11."The Reverend" 3:29

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)22 29
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)23 35
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)24 24
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)25 46
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)26 38
French Albums (SNEP)27 42
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)28 39
Irish Albums (IRMA)29 28
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)30 36
Scottish Albums (Official Charts)31 25
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)32 22
UK Albums (Official Charts)33 32
UK Album Downloads (Official Charts)34 33
US Billboard 20035 59
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)36 14
References

References

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