X Marks Destination is a debut studio album from the British alternative dance

Alternative dance

Alternative dance or indie dance is a musical genre that mixes rock subgenres with electronic dance music...

 band The Whip

The Whip (band)

The Whip are a band whose founding members Bruce Carter and Danny Saville come from Oldham, Greater Manchester, England formed in 2006. The rhythm section is Nathan Sudders and Fiona "Li'l Fee" Daniel , who was previously in Colne based band Earl....

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Reception

X Marks Desintation was released on March 24, 2008 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, and on March 3, 2009 in the United States

United States

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Initial critical response to X Marks Destination was average. At Metacritic

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, which assigns a normalized

Standard score

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 rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average

Weighted mean

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 score of 59, based on 7 reviews.

Standard UK edition

All songs by Bruce Carter and Danny Saville

1. "Trash" – 6:20
2. "Frustration" – 4:51
3. "Fire" – 5:11
4. "Save My Soul" – 5:09
5. "Sirens" – 4:17
6. "Divebomb" – 5:39
7. "Blackout" – 6:10
8. "Muzzle #1" – 4:50
9. "Sister Siam" – 4:43
10. "Dubsex" – 4:10

US iTunes release

Along with the 10 original tracks listed in the standard UK release, 6 remixes are added after the first-ten main tracks and all ten tracks have slight changes in time duration.

1. "Trash" – 6:20
2. "Frustration" – 4:51
3. "Fire" – 5:11
4. "Save My Soul" – 5:09
5. "Sirens" – 4:18
6. "Divebomb" – 5:38
7. "Blackout" – 6:10
8. "Muzzle #1" – 4:50
9. "Sister Siam" – 4:43
10. "Dubsex" – 4:07
11. "Blackout (Shinichi Osawa Remix)" – 5:40
12. "Muzzle #1 (Bloody Beetroots Remix)" - 4:06
13. "Sister Siam (Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya Remix)" - 4:49
14. "Trash (Crookers Remix)" - 6:01
15. "Trash (South Central Remix)" - 5:43
16. "Sister Siam (Justin Robertson Dub)" - 5:36

Charts

Charts (2008)	Peak position
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Personnel

• Jim Abbiss
  Jim Abbiss
  Jim Abbiss is a British music producer, best known for his work on records including Arctic Monkeys' Mercury Music Prize winning debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, Ladytron's Witching Hour, Sneaker Pimps' debut Becoming X, Editors' debut The Back Room, Kasabian's...
  
   – producer
• Bruce Carter – engineer, group member
• Ian Dowling – assistant engineer
• Liam Howe
  Liam Howe
  Liam Coverdale Howe is a London based record producer, musician and songwriter.- Musical beginnings :...
  
   – producer
• B.J. Ben Mason – assistant engineer
• Nathan Sudders – group member
• Fiona Daniel – group member
• Danny Saville – group member
• Damian Taylor
  Damian Taylor
  Damian Taylor is a Grammy-nominated music producer born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and currently residing in Montreal in Canada. Taylor's experience also includes audio mixer, audio engineer, composer, programmer, performer, editor and software designer....
  
   – mixing
• Richard Wilkinson – engineer