Wiped Out!

This article is about the album by The Neighbourhood. For other uses, see Wiped Out.

Wiped Out! is the second studio album by American rock band The Neighbourhood. It was released on October 30, 2015, through Columbia Records.^[2] Production was mostly handled by 4e and Justyn Pilbrow, features production from Benny Blanco, with executive production from The Neighbourhood and Kirk Harding.

Wiped Out!
Studio album by the Neighbourhood
Released	October 30, 2015
Genre	Alternative pop R&B^[1]
Length	45:18
Label	Columbia
Producer	4e, Justyn Pilbrow, Benny Blanco, Jono Dorr
The Neighbourhood chronology
I Love You. (2013) Wiped Out! (2015) The Neighbourhood (2018)
Singles from Wiped Out!
"R.I.P. 2 My Youth" Released: August 20, 2015 "Cry Baby" Released: November 10, 2015

Wiped Out! peaked at number 13 on the US Billboard 200^[3] and number 1 on the US Top Alternative Albums,^[4] making it their first album to reach the summit, alongside moderate international success. The album's lead single, "R.I.P 2 My Youth", was released on August 20, 2015, and charted at number 22 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles.^[5] The album's second single, "Cry Baby", was serviced to US alternative radio on November 10, 2015.^[6] In late 2020, the song "Daddy Issues" received renewed attention after becoming viral on the video-sharing social platform, TikTok.^[7]

Background and development

Prior to the release of Wiped Out!, the band released their debut mixtape, #000000 & #FFFFFF, for free.^[8]

Conceptualization and writing for the album started in January 2015.^[9] The majority of the record was written and recorded in a studio in Malibu and Santa Monica. In an interview with Digital Trends, bandmate Zach Abels recalls, “We did the second half of the album at my mom’s house, where we originally wrote "Sweater Weather""^[10] "Baby Came Home 2/Valentines" was written on their tour bus during their North American tour.^[9] "Prey" was written and recorded near the end of the album's creation process.^[11] On the album's title, Rutherford comments, "Wiped Out! was just an internal strife. The album is called Wiped Out! because at the end of it we were all really exhausted," and adds, "It was called Wiped Out! before we even started it because we were exhausted from the beginning!"^[12]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	5.5/10^[13]
Metacritic	53/100^[14]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Billboard	^[15]
DIY	^[16]
Exclaim!	7/10^[17]
Mojo	^[18]
Rolling Stone	^[19]
Uncut	3/10^[20]

The album received generally mixed reviews. Writing for Exclaim!, Ryan B. Patrick called the record "a "see what sticks" effort; it's slick and polished, but hits varying levels of satisfaction throughout."^[17]

Natasha West, from DIY, said that "Wiped Out! delivers a message of heartbreak, hope and heartfelt honesty" and "having successfully mixed pop, rock and hip-hop together, it seems like they have finally defined their sound as a band".^[16] A review published by Mojo Magazine, stated, "The LA quintet still sound like 16-year-old boys... Musically, though, their slick soulful pop-R&B is far more refined".^[18] For Matt Collar, from AllMusic, it "doesn't hurt that cuts like "Cry Baby," "Daddy Issues," and "Greetings from Califournia" counteract the band's somewhat downtempo vibe with catchy melodies and light, dance-oriented beats. As the black & white album cover illustration of a palm tree on a beach implies, this is surf music for street goths and beach bums with bad attitudes".^[2]

Kenneth Partridge, from Billboard, wrote, "The subtler, less stylized Wiped Out! keeps the palm-trees-at-twilight feel, but the sound is more hazy R&B than rock".^[15] David Turner, from Rolling Stone, thinks that "the warmth of "Sweater Weather" and the rest of the Neighbourhood's debut album is gone on Wiped Out!, replaced by a ponderous kind of cool".^[19] Uncut's published review was that the album is "a stylistic and conceptual vacuum."^[20]

Track listing

All tracks produced by Justyn Pilbrow and 4e, except where noted.

Wiped Out! track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"A Moment of Silence"			0:30
2.	"Prey"	Jonathan Dorr Cecil Bernardy The Neighbourhood Brandon Fried		4:47
3.	"Cry Baby"	Pilbrow The Neighbourhood Fried		3:56
4.	"Wiped Out!"	Pilbrow The Neighbourhood Fried		6:15
5.	"The Beach"	Pilbrow The Neighbourhood Fried		4:17
6.	"Daddy Issues"	Pilbrow The Neighbourhood Fried		4:20
7.	"Baby Came Home 2 / Valentines"	The Neighbourhood Fried		6:35
8.	"Greetings from Califournia"	Pilbrow Dorr Bernardy The Neighbourhood Fried		3:50
9.	"Ferrari"	Pilbrow The Neighbourhood Fried		3:03
10.	"Single"	The Neighbourhood Fried		4:20
11.	"R.I.P. 2 My Youth"	Pilbrow The Neighbourhood Benny Blanco	4e Blanco Pilbrow	3:27
Total length:				45:17

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Wiped Out!^[21]

Performance credits

• The Neighbourhood – vocals

Production

• Justyn Pilbrow – producer
• 4e – producer; assistant producer (track 11); engineer (tracks 1–6, 8–11)
• Benny Blanco – producer (track 11)
• Kirk Harding – executive producer
• The Neighbourhood – executive producer
• Chris Mullings – engineer (tracks 1–6, 8–11)
• Erik Reichers – engineer (track 7)
• Jason Hiller – assistant engineer (track 7)
• Mark Stent – mixer
• Geoff Swan – assistant mixer
• Chris Gehringer – mastering

Creative

• Matt Baus – creative director
• Cameron McCool – photography
• Adri Law – photography

Charts

Weekly charts Chart performance for Wiped Out! Chart (2015) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)^[22] 57 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[23] 156 Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[24] 15 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[25] 37 UK Albums (OCC)^[26] 86 US Billboard 200^[27] 13 US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)^[28] 1 US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)^[29] 2 2023 weekly chart performance for Wiped Out! Chart (2023) Peak position Polish Albums (ZPAV)^[30] 56

Year-end charts Year-end chart performance for Wiped Out! Chart (2022) Position Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)^[31] 25

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Poland (ZPAV)^[32]	Gold	10,000^‡
United Kingdom (BPI)^[33]	Silver	60,000^‡
United States (RIAA)^[34]	Gold	500,000^‡
^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label	Ref.
United States	October 30, 2015	Digital download CD	Columbia	^[35]^[36]^[37]
	February 19, 2016	LP		^[38]
United Kingdom				^[39]
Germany			Columbia Sony	^[40]

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