Little Victories (Strypes album)

Little Victories is the second studio album by Irish rock band the Strypes, released on 15 July 2015 by Virgin EMI Records.

[2] It successfully topped the Irish album charts (beating their debut, which peaked at #2), but fared slightly worse internationally.

[2] McClorey stated that he wrote about "whatever he was going through" with the majority of the lyrics being based around "normal 19-year-old things" such as friendships and relationships as well as his experiences as a member of a band and being on tour.

[2] The band got into contact with producers Charlie Russell and Bradley Spence via their tour manager, who shared an office space.

Bassist Pete O' Hanlon credits the producers with "pushing [the band] out of [their] comfort zone" and working on arrangements rather than just recording the album "as loud and [as] fast as [they] could".

[19] Lauren Murphy of the Irish Times rated the album 3/5 saying that the band succeeded in creating a more "grown-up-sounding record, packed with lip-smacking guitar licks, strong melodies and strident anthemic indie-rock choruses."

but "struggled to find an original sound as evidenced by tracks such as Get Into It (Arctic Monkeys), Queen of the Half Crown (Oasis) and Everyday (The Beatles)[20]".

They criticised the lyrics and songwriting and similarities to other artists, however, they did resent that the band were "good with their instruments, and the rhythm section in particular has stepped up its game from Snapshot" however, In conclusion, the reviewer recommended that it would be better to listen to "anyone else, really".

All tracks produced by Charley Russell and Bradley SpenceAll tracks are written by Ross Farrelly, Josh McClorey, Pete O' Hanlon & Evan Walsh[25] The album became the band's first to reach #1 in their native Ireland, moving up one spot from their debut Snapshot, however, the album fared slightly worse internationally, falling from #45 (Snapshot) to #57 in the Netherlands, #13 to #22 in Japan and #5 to #17 in the UK.

It was the final Strypes album to chart in the UK, France or the Netherlands as its follow-up, 2017's Spitting Image failed in those countries.