title: Partygoing
text: # Partygoing
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Aggregate scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AnyDecentMusic? | 6.6/10 |
  | Metacritic | 74/100 |
  | Review scores ||
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | The A.V. Club | B+ |
  | Consequence of Sound | |
  | Pitchfork | 6.3/10 |
  | PopMatters | 7/10 |
  | Rolling Stone | |
  | Spin | 7/10 |
  | Uncut | 7/10 |
  
  Partygoing is the third studio album by American indie pop band Future Bible Heroes. Future Bible Heroes member and lead lyricist Stephin Merritt was inspired by the 1981 B-52's album Party Mix! to create Partygoing, conceived as "a party album that only just happens to be largely about drunk suicide, aging, death, loss, and despair."
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All songs written by Stephin Merritt and Christopher Ewen.
  
  * "A Drink Is Just the Thing" – 1:26
  * "Sadder Than the Moon" – 3:44
  * "Let's Go to Sleep (And Never Come Back)" – 2:48
  * "Satan, Your Way Is a Hard One" – 2:30
  * "A New Kind of Town" – 1:47
  * "All I Care About Is You" – 3:22
  * "Living, Loving, Partygoing" – 3:22
  * "Keep Your Children in a Coma" – 2:19
  * "How Very Strange" – 2:47
  * "Love Is a Luxury I Can No Longer Afford" – 2:19
  * "Digging My Own Grave" – 3:05
  * "Drink Nothing But Champagne" – 2:06
  * "When Evening Falls on Tinseltown" – 2:36
  
  ## Personnel
  
  Credits adapted from AllMusic.
  
  ### Future Bible Heroes
  
  * Christopher Ewen – composition, engineering, instrumentation
  * Claudia Gonson – vocals
  * Stephin Merritt – composition, instrumentation, mixing, vocals
  
  ### Additional personnel
  
  * Michael English – design
  * Jeff Lipton – mastering
  * Charles Newman – engineer, mixing
  * Maria Rice – assistant mastering engineer
  