Something to Give Each Other

Something to Give Each Other
Studio album by Troye Sivan
Released	13 October 2023
Recorded	House Mouse Studios (Stockholm) MXM Studios (Los Angeles) The Pool Recording Studio (London)
Genre	Electropop pop house R&B
Length	33:40
Label	EMI Australia Capitol
Producer	A. G. Cook Oscar Görres Ian Kirkpatrick Novodor Styalz Fuego Zhone
Troye Sivan chronology
In a Dream (2020) Something to Give Each Other (2023)
Singles from Something to Give Each Other
"Rush" Released: 13 July 2023 "Got Me Started" Released: 20 September 2023 "One of Your Girls" Released: 13 October 2023

Something to Give Each Other is the third studio album by Australian singer and songwriter Troye Sivan. It was released by EMI Music Australia and Capitol Records on 13 October 2023. It is Sivan's first album release in five years, following Bloom (2018). It features a collaboration with Spanish singer and guitarist Guitarricadelafuente.

The album received universal acclaim from critics. It was preceded by the lead single "Rush" which topped the charts in Israel and entered the top ten in Ireland, Croatia, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia. The second single "Got Me Started", entered the charts in nine regions including Australia and the UK. A third single, "One of Your Girls", was released concurrently with the album. It is Sivan's most commercially successful album, becoming his first album and second project to top the ARIA chart in his native Australia, and reaching the top ten in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. It also reached number one on the US Dance/Electronic Albums chart.

At the 2023 J Awards, the album was nominated for Australian Album of the Year, while "Rush" was nominated for Best Pop Dance Recording and Best Music Video at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards as Sivan’s first nominations.

The album was nominated for the 2023 Australian Music Prize.

Background

Sivan teased the release of the album on 9 June 2023 on Instagram alongside a clip showcasing him throughout different years on a television starting from his first ever upload to YouTube and ending with a teaser for the music video of the album's then upcoming lead single "Rush". Sivan stated in the post caption that he had been making the album for over five years in between various commitments, such as his Bloom tour and the television series The Idol, in which he had a starring role.

Sivan announced the album name and release date and unveiled the cover art on 13 July 2023 on social media.

This album is my something to give you - a kiss on a dancefloor, a date turned into a weekend, a crush, a winter, a summer. Party after party, after party after after party. Heartbreak, freedom. Community, sisterhood, friendship. All that.

— Sivan describing the album

Artwork

The album cover features Sivan smiling with his head between a friend's legs. Sivan stated that he wanted to smile for the album cover but did not smile throughout the day of the photoshoot because he felt awkward smiling and did not want his smile to look fake. The shot for the album cover captured when Sivan's friend kneeled down and tickled Sivan's ribs, which provoked a genuine smile.

Due to the cover's suggestive nature, countries such as Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, as well as countries in Eastern Europe, replaced it with the single artwork for "Rush" instead, which features a close-up of Sivan.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	84/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Clash	9/10
The Guardian
NME
Pitchfork	8.0/10
Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine

Something to Give Each Other received acclaim from critics, who praised its "unapologetic queer" lyricism, production, and vocals. Metacritic, a review aggregation website that assigns a normalized rating out of 100 based on reviews from mainstream publications, assigned the album a score of 84 out of 100 based on 13 critics' reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

Ben Beaumont-Thomas of The Guardian called it "one of the year's most distinctive pop albums" and stated that while "there are more high tempos, but where 'Rush' was claustrophobic and orgiastic, other tracks give Sivan more space to move". Writing for Variety, Stephen J. Horowitz opined that the album represents Sivan at his "most realized and forthcoming" and praised the confessional nature of the songwriting.

Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine wrote that the album "finds Sivan older, bolder, and, for a large part of its running time, unrepentantly horny" and what it "lacks in poignancy, though, is made up for by the joy with which it embraces queer pleasure". For Rolling Stone, Tim Chan called the album "an ode to queerness and reinvention" as well as "a pristine slice of pop heaven."

Reviewing the album for Clash, Lauren Dehollogne felt that "a wave of bubbling emotion and challenging energy is palpable throughout Something to Give Each Other, but somehow each transition goes over smoothly and not a single track feels out of place" and "each track [...] can evoke a chuckle, a smile, a tear, or a gasp". Nick Levine of NME opined that aside from "Rush", "the album is mostly midtempo, though with a slightly warmer, gauzier sonic palette than Sivan's previous albums". He concluded that it is "a strikingly vital pop album charged with love, lust, sweat and regret". Harry Tafoya of Pitchfork found the album to be "a showcase for some dazzling eclecticism" as "ideas that couldn't possibly work on paper are executed skillfully and to often gorgeous effect", commenting that it "scans as less of a reinvention than a gradual honing of Sivan's craft".

Year-end lists

Select year-end rankings of Something to Give Each Other

Publication	Accolade	Rank	Ref.
Billboard	The 50 Best Albums of 2023: Staff List	3
The Guardian	The 50 Best Albums of 2023	13
The Evening Standard	The Albums of the Year 2023	3
NME	The Best Albums of 2023	4
PopMatters	The 20 Best Pop Albums of 2023	11
The Hollywood Reporter	The 10 Best Albums of 2023	7
Nylon	Nylon's Top Albums of 2023	4

Commercial performance

Something to Give Each Other debuted at number one in Australia, making it Sivan's highest-charting studio album in his home country. It opened at number 20 on the US Billboard 200 with 31,000 album-equivalent units, including 16,000 pure album sales. In addition to the album's singles charting internationally, three album tracks ("What's the Time Where You Are?", "In My Room", and "Still Got It") all charted on the Official New Zealand Music Chart, and additional songs ("Silly", and "Honey"), alongside "What's the Time Where You Are?" placed on the US Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs chart.

Something to Give Each Other Tour

Dates

List of concerts showing date, city, country, and venue

Date (2024)	City	Country	Venue
Leg 1 – Europe
May 29	Lisbon	Portugal	Coliseu dos Recreios
May 31	Barcelona	Spain	Parc del Fòrum
June 2	Paris	France	Bois de Vincennes
June 05	Stockholm	Sweden	Hovet
June 7	Aarhus	Denmark	Eskelunden
June 09	Prague	Czechia	Sportovní hala Fortuna
June 11	Berlin	Germany	Velodrom
June 12	Hamburg		Sporthalle
June 14	Munich		Zenith
June 15	Zürich	Switzerland	The Hall
June 17	Frankfurt	Germany	Jahrhunderthalle
June 18	Düsseldorf		Mitsubishi Electric Halle
June 20	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Ziggo Dome
June 22	Manchester	England	AO Arena
June 23	Glasgow	Scotland	OVO Hydro
June 25	Dublin	Ireland	3Arena
June 27	London	England	Wembley Arena
June 28	Birmingham		Utilita Arena

Track listing

Notes

• ^{^[v]} signifies a vocal producer.
• The deluxe soft pack CD & deluxe webstore vinyl copies of the album contain the extended version of "Rush" (3:35).
• "Can't Go Back, Baby" contains a sample of "Back, Baby", written and performed by Jessica Pratt.
• "Got Me Started" contains a sample of "Shooting Stars", written by Chris Stracey and Jack Glass, as performed by Bag Raiders.
• "Silly" contains a sample of "Musica (E il resto scompare)" by Elettra Lamborghini.

Personnel

Musicians

• Troye Sivan – vocals (all tracks), background vocals (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10), vibraphone (6)
• Zhone – vocals, background vocals (1, 9)
• Adam Novodor – background vocals (1, 9)
• Alex Chapman – background vocals (1, 9)
• Oscar Görres – bass, drums, percussion, programming (2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10); guitar (2, 3, 5, 6, 9), keyboards (2, 3, 6, 9, 10), background vocals (2, 3, 6), timpani (3), string arrangement (4); organ, piano (5)
• Jason Minnaar – spoken word (2)
• Santa Ouhamou Portillo – spoken word (2)
• Sofia Gallini – spoken word (2)
• David Bukovinszky – cello (4)
• Mattias Bylund – string arrangement, synthesizer (4)
• Karl Guner – synthesizer (4)
• Hanna Helgegren – violin (4)
• Mattias Johansson – violin (4)
• Guitarricadelafuente – vocals (4)
• Styalz Fuego – keyboards, programming (9)
• A. G. Cook – keyboards (10)
• Henki Skidu – saxophone (10)

Technical

• Randy Merrill – mastering
• Alex Ghenea – mixing (1, 4, 7–9)
• Serban Ghenea – mixing (2, 3, 5, 6, 10)
• John Hanes – immersive mix engineering
• Bryce Bordone – engineering (2, 3, 5, 6, 10)

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for Something to Give Each Other

Chart (2023-2024)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)	1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)	30
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)	7
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)	17
Canadian Albums (Billboard)	29
Croatian International Albums (HDU)	5
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)	13
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)	3
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)	13
French Albums (SNEP)	60
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)	9
Greek Albums (IFPI)	39
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)	33
Icelandic Albums (Plötutíðindi)	11
Irish Albums (OCC)	13
Italian Albums (FIMI)	55
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)	4
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)	2
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)	9
Polish Albums (ZPAV)	11
Portuguese Albums (AFP)	30
Scottish Albums (OCC)	5
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)	13
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)	16
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)	14
UK Albums (OCC)	4
US Billboard 200	20
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)	1

Year-end charts

2023 year-end chart performance for Something to Give Each Other

Chart (2023)	Position
Australian Artist Albums (ARIA)	11