Are You Normal? | ||||
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Studio album by Ned's Atomic Dustbin | ||||
Released | 3 November 1992 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 40:44 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Andy Wallace | |||
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Allmusic |
Are You Normal? is Ned's Atomic Dustbin's second album, released on 3 November 1992. It features the band's biggest American hit, "Not Sleeping Around", which hit the top of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Are You Normal? shows the band scaling back on the dual-bass, "punk-pop"-informed grebo sound of their debut album in order to "let the dynamics of the basses soak through the rush of power chords that dominate their early work." It also shows the band beginning to work with electronics, sampling and "ultramodern production" that the band would later continue to explore in their later work.Allmusic said the result is "an almost bouncy, bright album, full of great hooks and lyrical cleverness."