''Time to Go Home'' is the second

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band,

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. It was released on March 23, 2015 by

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Music and lyrics

The album opens with the track "Drone". A line from

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's ''How Should a Person Be?'', "He’s just another man who wants to teach me something", appears in the chorus of the song. The song handles the subject of

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. The second track is "Trapped" and "Why Try" is the third. Musically, both are

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tracks. The album's fourth track is "Cool Slut". The song's lyrics are about sex-positive attitudes. "On the Floor" is the fifth track. Its lyrics about the feelings of post-college displacement. The sixth track is "The Thing". Musically, it is the only

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track of the album. "Joke" is the seventh track. Its lyrics are about wanting to start fires. The eight track is "Lydia". Musically, it is a punk rock song. "IDC" is the ninth track. The album closes with the title track and the lead single, "Time to Go Home". The band told ''

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'' "'Time to go Home' is about treating boredom with substances. It's about having too much free time, feeling bored, getting a little drunk, wanting more, getting completely trashed, feeling euphoric, feeling sick, and finally having a sudden and urgent need to go home and go to bed."

Critical reception

The album received generally positive reviews from critics. On

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received a score of 78. Fred Thomas of

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gave the album four out of five stars, remarking it "''Time to Go Home'' takes the band's unique blend of beauty and absurdity into slightly different places." A mixed review came from Devon Fisher of ''

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'', who said the album "sounds more like it came out of the ‘90s than any of Sub Pop’s still-active groups that were putting out records back then." He also felt it "seems like half the album it could have been." Bryn Lovitt of ''

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'' gave the album eight out of ten stars and wrote, "''Time to Go Home'' is a throwback to mid-’80s darkwave that gives it an intellectual edge for its resemblance to such a specific moment in classic British new wave."

Track listing

All tracks written by Julia Shapiro, except "Lydia" written by Lydia Lund. All tracks produced by Nich Wilbur and José Díaz Rohena.

References

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