Yellow & Green (Baroness album)

Yellow & Green
Yellow cover
Studio album by Baroness
Released	July 17, 2012
Genre	Stoner rock, progressive rock, alternative metal, post-rock[1]
Length	39:50 (Disc 1) 35:19 (Disc 2) 75:09 (Total)
Label	Relapse
Producer	John Congleton
Baroness chronology
Blue Record (2009) Yellow & Green (2012) Purple (2015)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	82/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
The A.V. Club	B-[4]
BBC	Very favorable[5]
Consequence of Sound	[6]
NME	[7]
Paste	7.2/10[8]
Pitchfork	8.5/10[9]
PopMatters	[10]
Rolling Stone	[11]
Spin	[12]

Yellow & Green is the third studio album by the American rock band Baroness. The double album was released on July 17, 2012 through Relapse Records.^[13][14] On May 14, 2012, the first single "Take My Bones Away" was revealed on Baroness' official YouTube channel. The second single "March to the Sea" was released on June 13, 2012. The third single "Eula" was debuted on Liquid Metal Sirius XM on June 18, 2012.

Reception

The album debuted at number seventy five on the Canadian Albums Chart^[15] and at number thirty on the Billboard 200,^[16] selling over 12,000 copies its first week. The album has sold 57,000 copies in the United States as of November 2015.^[17]

The album was listed 18th on Stereogum's list of top 50 albums of 2012.^[18]

Track listing

Disc 1 (Yellow)[19]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Yellow Theme"	1:45
2.	"Take My Bones Away"	4:59
3.	"March to the Sea"	3:12
4.	"Little Things"	5:03
5.	"Twinkler"	3:17
6.	"Cocainium"	5:09
7.	"Back Where I Belong"	6:16
8.	"Sea Lungs"	3:21
9.	"Eula"	6:48

Disc 2 (Green)[19]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Green Theme"	4:23
2.	"Board Up the House"	4:33
3.	"Mtns. (The Crown & Anchor)"	4:17
4.	"Foolsong"	2:58
5.	"Collapse"	3:52
6.	"Psalms Alive"	4:09
7.	"Stretchmarker"	3:23
8.	"The Line Between"	5:02
9.	"If I Forget Thee, Lowcountry"	2:42

Personnel

• John Dyer Baizley - Lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards
• Pete Adams - Vocals, guitar
• Allen Blickle - Drums

Charts

Chart (2012)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[20]	28
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[21]	59
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[22]	124
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[23]	96
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[24]	52
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[25]	22
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[26]	13
Italian Albums (FIMI)[27]	99
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[28]	66
UK Albums (OCC)[29]	85
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[30]	9
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)[31]	3
US Billboard 200[32]	30
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[33]	8
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[34]	8

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