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Шаблон:Infobox album Bricks Are Heavy is the third studio album by American rock band L7, released on April 14, 1992, by Slash Records. The album peaked at number 160 on the US Billboard 200 and number one on the Heatseekers Albums chart. As of June 2000, Bricks Are Heavy has sold 327,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

Production

Produced by the band and Butch Vig, musically the album is heavier and dirtier than the band's previous recordings and described as "catchy tunes and mean vocals on top of ugly guitars and a quick-but-thick bottom of cast-iron grunge" by Entertainment Weekly.

Critical reception

Шаблон:Music ratings In a contemporary review for Playboy, Robert Christgau regarded Bricks Are Heavy as an "object lesson in how to advance your music by meeting the marketplace halfway", although he believed it would not sell as much as it deserved. He said Vig helped L7 produce grunge-metal featuring "intense admixtures of ditty and power chord" that "never quite gathers Nirvana's momentum, but it's just as catchy and a touch nastier." Greg Kot was less enthusiastic in the Chicago Tribune, writing that there were not many good songs such as "Slide" and "the performances-while certainly ferocious-aren't sufficiently varied enough to make up the difference."

NME listed it as the 39th best album of 1992. It was ranked at number 4 on The Village VoiceШаблон:'s "Pazz & Jop: Dean's List", as well as number 32 on their "Pazz & Jop: Critics Poll". In 2015, Spin placed it at number 249 on the "300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985-2014)" list.

Legacy

Bricks Are Heavy is now regarded as one of grunge music's best albums. TrebleШаблон:'s Brian Roesler credited L7 with helping to define "the very best of early grunge" through the album's fusion of pop and metal musical elements.

Accolades

Critical rankings for Bricks Are Heavy

Publication	Country	Type	List	Year	Rank	Шаблон:Abbr
Treble	United States	All-time	The 30 Best Grunge Albums	2016	15
Rolling Stone			50 Greatest Grunge Albums	2019
Far Out	United Kingdom		The 10 best grunge albums of all time	2021	4
Loudwire	United States		The 30 Best Grunge Albums of All Time	2023	16

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

L7

• Donita Sparks – guitar, lead vocals (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 10)
• Suzi Gardner – guitar, lead vocals (tracks 6, 9 and 11)
• Jennifer Finch – bass, lead vocals (tracks 5 and 7)
• Demetra Plakas – drums, backing vocals (track 3)

Additional musician

• Paul Ryan – bongos

Production

• Butch Vig – production, engineering, mixing
• Howie Weinberg – mastering
• Steve Marker – engineering
• Mr. Colson – engineering
• Elizabeth Hale – art direction
• Jeff Price – art direction
• Randall Martin – artwork
• Vicki Berndt – photography
• Arlan E. Helm – photography
• Damion Romero – photography

Charts

Album

Шаблон:Album chart

Chart (1992)	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)	24
US Billboard 200	160
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)	1

Singles

Year	Title	Peak Chart positions
		Шаблон:Small Mod	Шаблон:Small	Шаблон:Small
1992	"Pretend We're Dead"	8	50	21
	"Everglade"	—	85	27
	"Monster"	—	—	33
"—" denotes singles that were released but did not chart.

External links

• Шаблон:Discogs master