Euphoric Heartbreak

Euphoric Heartbreak
Studio album by
Released4 April 2011 (2011-04-04)
Recorded2010–11; Santa Monica, California, US
GenreIndie rock
Length49:44
LabelColumbia
ProducerFlood, James Allan
Glasvegas chronology
A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss)
(2008)
Euphoric Heartbreak
(2011)
Later...When the TV Turns to Static
(2013)
Singles from Euphoric Heartbreak
  1. "Euphoria, Take My Hand"
    Released: 28 March 2011
  2. "Shine Like Stars"
    Released: 27 June 2011 (promo only)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic58/100
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
BBC Music(positive)
Clash9/10
The Daily Telegraph
Drowned in Sound7/10
The Evening Standard
The Guardian
NME9/10
Pitchfork4.1/10
The Scotsman

Euphoric Heartbreak (stylised as EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\) is the second studio album by Scottish rock group Glasvegas, which was released on 4 April 2011 by Columbia Records. It reached No. 10 in the UK and No. 1 in Sweden. The album was written, demoed and tracked by James Allan in a luxury beach house in Santa Monica, California before full production and final recording took place in London and Glasgow. The album was produced by Flood and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer. The song "The World is Yours" features on EA Sports' FIFA 12. As of July 2014, the album had sold 30,400 units in the UK, which is ten per cent of the sales of their platinum-selling debut album.