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What Is Not to Love is the second album by indie-rock band Imperial Teen.[7][8] It is the follow-up to their first full-length record, Seasick (1996), and was released in 1998 via Slash Records.[9]

What Is Not to Love
Studio album by Imperial Teen
Released	US September 15, 1998
Genre	Indie rock, indie pop
Length	45:24
Label	Slash[1]
Producer	Mark Freegard, Steve McDonald
Imperial Teen chronology
Seasick (1996) What Is Not to Love (1998) On (2002)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Robert Christgau	A−[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
Rolling Stone	[5]
Spin	6/10[6]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[1]

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly wrote that "there's something fundamentally warm and cuddly about the mixed-gender quartet's seductive mix of indie-rock cliches (distorted guitars, diffident vocals) and hook-and-harmony-informed popcraft".[10]

Track listing

All songs written by Imperial Teen.

1. "Open Season" – 2:25
2. "Birthday Girl" – 3:36
3. "Yoo Hoo" – 3:30
4. "Lipstick" – 4:00
5. "Alone in the Grass" – 7:15
6. "Crucible" – 4:18
7. "The Beginning" – 2:39
8. "Year of the Tan" – 3:05
9. "Seven" – 4:33
10. "Hooray" (live) – 7:11
11. "Beauty" – 2:52

Personnel

Band members

• Roddy Bottum – guitar, vocals
• Will Schwartz – guitar, vocals
• Jone Stebbins – bass, backing vocals
• Lynn Truell – drums, backing vocals

Technical staff

• Mark Freegard – producer, engineer, mixing
• Andre Moran – engineer
• Mark Saunders – mixing
• Greg Freeman – engineer
• Bill Inglot – mastering
• Matt Kelley – engineer
• Mickey Petralia – producer, mixing
• Chris Scard – second engineer
• Gabriel Shepard – second engineer
• Matt Wallace – mixing
• Howard Willing – second engineer

References

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