Highly Evolved

This article is about the Vines album. For the title track, see Highly Evolved (song).
Highly Evolved
A cartoon drawing of a jungle with vines hanging down from trees. "The Vines" is in all caps in a placard at the top-middle.
Studio album by
the Vines
Released14 July 2002
RecordedJuly 2001–February 2002
StudioThe Sound Factory, Hollywood, California
Genre
Length43:35
Label
ProducerRob Schnapf
The Vines chronology
College EP
(2002) 		Highly Evolved
(2002) 		Winning Days
(2004)
Singles from Highly Evolved
  1. "Highly Evolved"
    Released: 22 April 2002
  2. "Get Free"
    Released: 17 June 2002
  3. "Outtathaway!"
    Released: 18 November 2002
  4. "Homesick"
    Released: 12 May 2003
Alternate cover
Four drawings of round red shapes somewhat resembling halves of two broken hearts, over a black background.
First American pressing
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic68/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Blender[3]
Entertainment WeeklyC[4]
The Guardian[5]
Los Angeles Times[6]
NME9/10[7]
Pitchfork4.1/10[8]
Q[9]
Rolling Stone[10]
Uncut[11]

Highly Evolved is the debut studio album by Australian alternative rock band the Vines, released in July 2002 on Capitol Records and produced by Rob Schnapf. The album was a significant success, riding the wave of the garage rock revival trend and earning critical acclaim, including being named the 2nd best album of 2002 by NME and being included in "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" and "100 Best Australian Albums."

  1. ^ "Reviews for Highly Evolved by the Vines". Metacritic. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  2. ^ Phares, Heather. "Highly Evolved – The Vines". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  3. ^ Harris, John (August 2002). "The Vines: Highly Evolved". Blender (8): 126. Archived from the original on 11 August 2004. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  4. ^ Raftery, Brian M.; Brunner, Rob (19 July 2002). "Highly Evolved". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 7 November 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  5. ^ Petridis, Alexis (5 July 2002). "Believe the hype". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  6. ^ Nichols, Natalie (14 July 2002). "The Vines Highly Evolved Capitol". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  7. ^ Fox, Jason (2 July 2002). "Vines: Highly Evolved". NME. ISSN 0028-6362. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  8. ^ Dahlen, Chris (29 June 2002). "The Vines: Highly Evolved". Pitchfork. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  9. ^ "The Vines: Highly Evolved". Q (192): 121. July 2002.
  10. ^ Hoard, Christian (2 July 2002). "The Vines: Highly Evolved". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 13 May 2007. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  11. ^ "The Vines: Highly Evolved". Uncut (63): 116. August 2002.