''ThirtyTwo'' is the fourth studio album by
Reverend and The Makers, released on 24 February 2014 by
Cooking Vinyl
Cooking Vinyl is a British independent record label, based in Acton, London, England, founded in 1986 by former manager and booking agent Martin Goldschmidt and business partner Pete Lawrence. Goldschmidt remains the current owner and chairman ...
in the UK. The album title refers to various different things: the age of lead singer
Jon McClure
Jon McClure (born 22 December 1981), known as The Reverend, is an English musician. He is the lead singer and frontman of Reverend and The Makers, and ex-vocalist of 1984 and Judan Suki. He says that the name "Reverend" became his moniker because ...
at the time of the album's release, his father's favourite lottery number and number of the bus route near McClure's house.
The album peaked at #13 in the UK Albums Chart,
[ Reverend and The Makers discography#Studio albums] making it their second highest charting album behind their debut ''
The State of Things''.
The album contains a variety of songs showing many influences including
electropop
Electropop is a hybrid music genre combining elements of electronic and pop genres. Writer Hollin Jones has described it as a variant of synth-pop with heavy emphasis on its electronic sound. The genre was developed in the 1980s and saw a re ...
and
ska
Ska (; ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walki ...
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Track listing
References
2014 albums
Reverend and The Makers albums
Cooking Vinyl albums
Albums produced by Youth (musician)
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