Float (Flogging Molly album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Float
Type = Album
Artist = Flogging Molly


Released = March 4, 2008
Recorded =
Genre = Celtic rock, punk rock
Length = 39:35
Label = SideOneDummy
Producer = Flogging Molly
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:w9frxzqjldfe link]
*"Crawdaddy!" (favorable) [http://crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault.com/Article.aspx?id=6308 link]
*Spin Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.spin.com/reviews/flogging-molly-float-sideonedummy link]
Last album = "Complete Control Sessions"
(2007)
This album = "Float"
(2008)
Next album =

"Float" is the fourth studio album by the Irish-American punk band Flogging Molly. It was released on March 4, 2008 and debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200 Chart, selling about 48,000 copies in its first week; [Katie Hasty, [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003724042 "Alan Jackson Bests Janet To Top Billboard 200"] , Billboard.com, March 12, 2008.] it also reached #1 on the Billboard Independent Charts and #2 on the Billboard Alternative charts.

The album features a darker and more political subject matter, with less whimsical and punk-influenced music.

Track listing

# "Requiem for a Dying Song" - 3:30
# "(No More) Paddy's Lament" - 3:24
# "Float" - 4:53
# "You Won't Make a Fool Out of Me" - 2:43
# "The Lightning Storm" - 3:29
# "Punch Drunk Grinning Soul" - 4:20 (At the end features a 30-second performance by Tom Corrigan called "Rural Decay")
# "Us of Lesser Gods" - 3:19
# "Between a Man and a Woman" - 3:21
# "From The Back of a Broken Dream" - 3:21
# "Man With No Country" - 3:04
# "The Story So Far" - 4:11

Reviews

"Float is one of the most important records of this year, if not the decade". -Alternative Press [http://www.newuniversity.org/checkDB.php?id=6647dl|date=April 2008]

"Flogging Molly’s blend of traditional Irish music and supersonic punk is guaranteed to propel you out of your seat and into a pogo-hopping frenzy." -Crawdaddy! [ [http://crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault.com/Article.aspx?id=6308 Flogging Molly, Float, review, Dave King: Flogging Molly - Reviews - Crawdaddy! ] ]

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