Happy Birthday! is the second studio album by German electronic music duo Modeselektor. It was released on BPitch Control on 10 September 2007.

Happy Birthday!
Studio album by
Released10 September 2007 (2007-09-10)
GenreIDM
Length69:40
LabelBPitch Control
Producer
Modeselektor chronology
Hello Mom!
(2005)
Happy Birthday!
(2007)
Monkeytown
(2011)

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [1]
Pitchfork7.4/10[2]

Mark Pytlik of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.4 out of 10, saying, "what's interesting about Happy Birthday! isn't just that it fuses together the most unfashionable or discarded elements of electronic music's recent history, but that it manages to sound so fresh in doing so."[2]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."Happy Birthday"4:03
2."Godspeed"5:46
3."2000007" (featuring TTC)4:11
4."Let Your Love Grow" (featuring Apparat and Paul St. Hilaire)5:25
5."Em Ocean"1:54
6."Sucker Pin"6:10
7."Edgar"3:53
8."Hyper Hyper" (featuring Otto Von Schirach)5:17
9."BMI"4:29
10."The Dark Side of the Frog"0:52
11."The Dark Side of the Sun" (featuring Puppetmastaz)3:34
12."Déboutonnet" (featuring Siriusmo)4:23
13."The Black Block"5:41
14."The First Rebirth"4:39
15."The White Flash" (featuring Thom Yorke)4:49
16."Late Check-Out"0:38
17."The Wedding Toccata Theme"3:53
18."(I Can't Sleep) Without Music" (featuring Maxïmo Park)3:32
Total length:73:28
iTunes edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
19."Get Wasted in Silence"2:58
Total length:76:26

Charts

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Chart Peak
position
French Albums (SNEP)[3] 104

References

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  1. ^ Way, Brian. "Modeselektor - Happy Birthday!". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b Pytlik, Mark (17 September 2007). "Modeselektor: Happy Birthday!". Pitchfork. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Lescharts.com – Modeselektor – Happy+Birthday!". Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
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