A Soap Bubble and Inertia | ||||
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Released | March 2, 1994 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 51:06 | |||
Label | Thermometer Sound Surface | |||
Producer | Dan Brodbeck, The Gandharvas | |||
The Gandharvas chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
A Soap Bubble and Inertia is the debut album by Canadian alternative rock band The Gandharvas. It was released in 1994 on the Thermometer Sound Surface record label. The album peaked at #39 on the RPM Album Chart in August, 1994. The album featured three singles; "The First Day of Spring", "The Coffee Song" and "Shadow", all which had music videos. By April 1998, the album had sold over 35,000 copies. [2]
The album's title is taken from a line in the novel Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The album's single, "The First Day of Spring," was named Song of the Year for 1994 (CASBY Award) by The Edge 102.1 in Toronto, Ontario. In 2007 the same radio station ranked the song #14 in their "Top 102 Canadian New Rock Songs of All Time" list.
All tracks by The Gandharvas (Lyrics - Paul Jago)
The Gandharvas was a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 1989 in London, Ontario.
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