Writer's Block (Peter Bjorn and John album)

Writer's Block
Studio album by Peter Bjorn and John
Released	14 August 2006
Genre	Indie pop, indie rock
Length	45:31
Label	Wichita, V2, Startime
Producer	Peter Morén, Björn Yttling, John Eriksson
Peter Bjorn and John chronology
Falling Out (2004) Writer's Block (2006) Seaside Rock (2008)
Singles from Writer's Block
"Young Folks" Released: 1 August 2006 "Let's Call It Off" Released: 30 October 2006 "Objects of My Affection" Released: 16 April 2007
Writer's Block Remixes
Alternate "night-time" artwork used for the cover of the remix album.

Writer's Block is the third album by Peter Bjorn and John. It was released in the UK on 14 August 2006 and in the US on 6 February 2007. Taking a departure from the production of their first two albums, Writer's Block is an experimental, semi-concept album based around themes of the highs and lows of romance.

The inner sleeve art, as well as containing handwritten liner notes, features a tall, folding illustration of a building in the neighborhood alluded to in the album title's wordplay, with each window of the building representing a song from the album. The title is said to be a reference to the Hornstull neighborhood in Stockholm, where the band is based, which has a high concentration of creative artists (hence 'Writer's Block').^[1] The songs take inspiration from a variety of artists. While the album is said to have a slightly more stripped down sound compared to the guitar-dominated previous albums, the arrangements were still too complex in some cases to be played live in their original form- most notably 'The Chills' continues to be entirely reworked for live performances. Later, the album Gimme Some would aim to address this issue directly.

The album had three singles; "Young Folks" (featuring Victoria Bergsman, formerly of The Concretes on guest vocals), "Objects of My Affection", and "Let's Call It Off", the latter two using different versions of the songs than those found on the albums. All three songs had videos, the first music videos by the band to be widely available to international audiences. The track "Young Folks" was ranked at #5 on Pitchfork Media's list of the top 100 songs of 2006. Writer's Block was ranked at #24 on Pitchfork's list of the top 50 albums of 2006. The album is generally seen as one of the defining albums of the mid-2000s indie scene.