Passive Me, Aggressive You (styled Passive Me • Aggressive You) is the debut studio album from New Zealand alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band The Naked and Famous

The Naked and Famous

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. The album was released on 6 September 2010 in New Zealand, where it debuted at number-one. The album has thus far spawned four singles: "All of This", "Young Blood", "Punching in a Dream" and "Girls like You"; with "Young Blood" peaking at number-one on the New Zealand Singles Chart.

Composition

Passive Me, Aggressive You draws from the genres of dance-rock

Dance-rock

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, and features post-punk

Post-punk

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 influences. "Young Blood" is a synth-pop song, while "Punching in a Dream" is of the dream pop

Dream pop

Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s, when bands like The Passions, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A.R. Kane began fusing post-punk and ethereal experiments with bittersweet pop melodies into dreamy, sensual soundscapes. The term was almost...

 genre. "Spank" is psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

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Critical reception

Chris Schulz from Stuff awarded Passive Me, Aggressive You five out of five stars, and praised its production and variety of musical styles. Allmusic's Matt Collar praised the songs' catchy choruses and, awarding the album four out of five stars, concluded, "there's nothing passive about how much you could aggressively love this band". Scott Kara of The New Zealand Herald

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rated Passive Me, Aggressive You a perfect five stars, summarising "Forget the hype. It's real". The Nelson Mail

The Nelson Mail

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Nick Ward called Passive Me, Aggressive You "Unconvincing, but with flashes of promise".

Chart performance

The album debuted at number one on the New Zealand Albums Chart

Recording Industry Association of New Zealand

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 on 13 September 2010, and was knocked off the top spot by Linkin Park

Linkin Park

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's A Thousand Suns

A Thousand Suns

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Singles

• The first single to be released from the album was "All of This" and was released on 16 November 2009, almost a year prior to the album's release. The single did not chart.

• The second single to be released from the album was "Young Blood
  Young Blood (The Naked and Famous song)
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  " and was released on 7 July 2010, where it debuted at number 1 on the New Zealand Singles Chart
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  , where it remained in the charts for 12 consecutive weeks.

• The third single to be released from the album was "Punching in a Dream
  Punching in a Dream
  "Punching in a Dream" is the third single from The Naked and Famous's album Passive Me, Aggressive You. It was released digitally on 23 August 2010. It debuted and peaked on the RIANZ charts at number 11 on 30 August....
  
  ", which was released on 23 August 2010, where it has currently peaked at number 11 in New Zealand.

• The third single to be released from the album in the UK was "Girls Like You", and was released on 5 June 2011.

• "No Way" is due to be released on 11 December 2011.

Track listing

Personnel

The Naked and Famous

• Aaron Short — keys
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• Alisa Xayalith — vocals
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  , keys
• David Beadle — bass
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• Jesse Wood — drums
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• Thom Powers — vocals, guitars
  Electric guitar
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Visuals and imagery

• Special Problems – artwork, design, video

Technical and production

• Thom Powers – production
  Record producer
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  , engineering
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• Aaron Short – production, engineering
• Olly Harmer – additional engineering
• Billy Bush – mixing
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• Emily Lazar – mastering
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• Joe LaPorta
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   – mastering

Managerial

• Paul McKessar – management
  Management
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• Campbell Smith – management
• Peter Lewit – legal

Charts

Chart (2010)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	25
Austrian Albums Chart	56
Dutch Albums Chart	77
German Albums Chart	31
Irish Albums Chart Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically...	38
New Zealand Albums Chart	1
Swiss Albums Chart	74
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	25
US Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	91
US Top Alternative Albums	12
US Rock Albums	20

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue
New Zealand	6 September 2010	Somewhat Damaged	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	81359
Australia			Digital download
Canada
United States
Australia	1 October 2010	Somewhat Damaged, Universal	CD	2753221
United Kingdom	14 March 2011	Somewhat Damaged, Polydor	Digital download
		Fiction, Somewhat Damaged, Polydor, Universal	CD	2757442
			12" vinyl picture disc Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...	2757444
			3CD deluxe edition	2764039
United States	15 March 2011	Universal Republic, Somewhat Damaged	CD	B0015363-02
			12" vinyl	B0015436-01
Japan	8 June 2011	Somewhat Damaged, Universal	CD, digital download	UICP-1127