The Optimist (New Young Pony Club album)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	61/100^[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[5]
BBC Music	favourable^[6]
Clash	7/10^[7]
The Daily Telegraph	^[8]
Drowned in Sound	6/10^[9]
The Guardian	^[10]
The Independent	favourable^[11]
musicOMH	^[12]
NME	8/10^[13]
Pitchfork Media	5.5/10^[14]

The Optimist is the second studio album by English electronic music band New Young Pony Club, released on 5 March 2010 on the band's label The Numbers, distributed by the PIAS Entertainment Group. The album showcases a darker, more emotive sound for the band.^[15] The songs "Oh Cherie" and "Lost a Girl" were used, respectively, in the third and fourth episodes of the fourth season of Gossip Girl.^[16]^[17]

Track listing

All tracks written by Tahita Bulmer and Andy Spence, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lost a Girl"	4:21
2.	"Chaos"	3:39
3.	"The Optimist"	5:36
4.	"Stone"	4:10
5.	"We Want To"	4:42
6.	"Dolls"	3:16
7.	"Before the Light"	5:28
8.	"Oh Cherie"	5:04
9.	"Rapture"	4:23
10.	"Architect of Love"	4:48

iTunes Store bonus tracks^[18]^[19]
No.	Title	Length
11.	"Chaos" (Manic Street Preachers South Wales Swamp Mix)	3:34
12.	"Chaos" (video) (UK and Europe only)	3:17
13.	"Lost a Girl" (video) (UK only)	4:22

Japanese edition bonus tracks^[20]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"Dress"	PJ Harvey	3:30
12.	"Chaos" (Rory Phillips Mix)		5:11
13.	"Chaos" (Johan and Dekker Remix)		7:12
14.	"Chaos" (Melé Remix)		5:56

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Optimist.^[21]

New Young Pony Club

Tahita Bulmer – performer, production
Lou Hayter – extra vocals (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7), extra piano (track 7)
Sarah Jones – drums (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5), extra vocals (tracks 2, 3, 5), additional drums (tracks 3, 6–8)
Andy Spence – performer, production

Additional personnel

Pete Fraser – saxophone (track 3)
Liz Harry – art direction, design
Mark McNulty – photography
Al O'Connel – drum engineering (track 2)
Morgan Quaintance – heys (track 1), extra Vox (track 4)
Craig Silvey – mixing
Tom Stanley – drum engineering (tracks 1, 4, 5)

Charts

Chart (2010)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart^[22]	161

Release history

Region	Date	Label
Ireland	5 March 2010^[23]	The Numbers
United Kingdom	8 March 2010^[24]	The Numbers
Australia	19 March 2010^[25]	Liberator Music
France	5 April 2010^[26]	[PIAS] Recordings
Germany	16 April 2010^[27]	[PIAS] Integral
Japan	21 April 2010^[20]	Hostess Entertainment
United States	4 May 2010^[5]	[PIAS] America

References

↑ "Lost a Girl – Single by New Young Pony Club". iTunes Store UK. Apple. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
↑ "Chaos – EP by New Young Pony Club". iTunes Store UK. Apple. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
↑ "We Want To – EP by New Young Pony Club". iTunes Store UK. Apple. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
↑ "The Optimist – New Young Pony Club". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
1 2 Sendra, Tim. "The Optimist – New Young Pony Club – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
↑ Shaw, Natalie (4 March 2010). "Review of New Young Pony Club – The Optimist". BBC Music. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
↑ Zadeh, Joe (2 March 2010). "New Young Pony Club – The Optimist". Clash. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
↑ Green, Thomas H (5 March 2010). "New Young Pony Club: The Optimist, CD review". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
↑ Goodson, Kelvin (4 March 2010). "New Young Pony Club – The Optimist". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
↑ Dean, Will (4 March 2010). "New Young Pony Club: The Optimist". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
↑ Price, Simon (7 March 2010). "Album: New Young Pony Club, The Optimist (The Numbers)". The Independent. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
↑ Urdang, Ben. "New Young Pony Club – The Optimist". musicOMH. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
↑ Doran, John (12 March 2010). "Album Review: New Young Pony Club – 'The Optimist' (Pias)". NME. IPC Media. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
↑ Cohen, Ian (25 March 2010). "New Young Pony Club: The Optimist". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
↑ "New Young Pony Club talk "deliciously menacing" new LP". Fact. The Vinyl Factory. 7 January 2010. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
↑ "Gossip Girl Music | Season 4 – Episode 3". The CW. Archived from the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
↑ "Gossip Girl Music | Season 4 – Episode 4". The CW. Archived from the original on 16 October 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
↑ "The Optimist by New Young Pony Club". iTunes Store UK. Apple. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
↑ "The Optimist by New Young Pony Club". iTunes Store Germany. Apple. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
1 2 ジ・オプティミスト [The Optimist] (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
↑ The Optimist (CD liner notes). New Young Pony Club. The Numbers. 2010. NYPCCD030.
↑ "Chart Log UK: Nadanuf – Michael Nyman". The Zobbel Website. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
↑ "New Young Pony Club – Optimist". Tower Records Ireland. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
↑ "New Young Pony Club: Optimist". HMV. Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
↑ "Optimist, The – New Young Pony Club". JB Hi-Fi. Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
↑ "The Optimist – New Young Pony Club" (in French). Fnac. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
↑ "The Optimist" (in German). Amazon.de. Retrieved 20 July 2011.

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