Fake History

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Fake History
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Studio album by
Letlive
ReleasedApril 13, 2010 (2010-04-13)
Recorded
  • Charlotte, North Carolina
  • August–September 2009
Genre
Length
  • 44:58 (Original release)
  • 56:22 (2011 re-release)
Label
Producer
Letlive chronology
Speak Like You Talk
(2005)		Fake History
(2010)		 The Blackest Beautiful
(2013)

Fake History is the second studio album by American rock band Letlive and the first written and recorded with Jason Aalon Butler (vocals), Jean Nascimento (guitar), Jeff Sahyoun (guitar), Ryan Jay Johnson (bass guitar) and Anthony Rivera (drums). Originally released on Tragic Hero Records in April 2010, it was re-released by Epitaph Records April 12, 2011, with three additional tracks. [1]

Contents

Lyrically, the band didn't write the album with a particular political stand point and wanted the album to stimulate political, emotional and intellectual awareness. [2] Upon its re-release on Epitaph, the album received favorable reviews, generating an aggregated score of 76/100. [3] British publication Rock Sound added Fake History into their 101 Modern Classics. [4]

On April 13, 2020, the tenth anniversary of the album's original release, the band released a collection of demos for tracks that were eventually worked and finalised to feature on the album. [5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 76/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [7]
BBC Music (very positive) [8]
Blare MagazineStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [9]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Rock Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
SputnikmusicStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [12]
Thrash HitsStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [13]

Fake History received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 8 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". [3] Sputnikmusic gave Fake History a 4.5 out of 5 or "superb" rating, calling it "a post-hardcore album fit for many of 2010's best-of lists". [12] Rock Sound magazine called it "a frenetic, hugely entertaining and inventive genre mash-up". [11] Thrash Hits gave the album a 4 out of 6 rating, calling it "a good album but it smacks of a band struggling hard to fit their entire repertoire into one record". [13]

In 2012, British publication Rock Sound added letlive.'s album Fake History into their 101 Modern Classics placed at number 51. They considered the album more of a classic than Queens of the Stone Age's Songs for the Deaf and Alkaline Trio's Good Mourning . Stating that "The essence of hardcore distilled by five LA lifers, ‘Fake History’ is at once a howl of vulnerability and a fuck-you-you-will-never-break-me clarion call of utter defiance. Truly, genuinely thrilling." [4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by letlive.

No.TitleLength
1."Le Prologue"1:45
2."The Sick, Sick, 6.8 Billion"3:12
3."Renegade 86'"3:35
4."Enemies [Enemigos]"4:56
5."Casino Columbus"3:58
6."Muther" (feat. Chelsea Warlick)5:40
7."Homeless Jazz"3:41
8."We, the Pros of Con"4:13
9."H. Ledger"3:36
10."Over Being Under"3:37
11."Day 54"6:45
Total length:44:58
Re-release bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."Hollywood, and She Did"4:00
13."Lemon Party"3:59
14."This Mime [A Sex Symbol]"3:25
Total length:56:22

Personnel

Production

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  3. 1 2 3 "Fake History Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved February 15, 2011.
  4. 1 2 "Rock Sound's 101 Modern Classics: 74 – 50". Rock Sound . Freeway Press Inc. June 27, 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2012. Few albums encapsulate the idea of a modern classic quite as perfectly as this one. The essence of hardcore distilled by five LA lifers, 'Fake History' is at once a howl of vulnerability and a fuck-you-you-will-never-break-me clarion call of utter defiance. Truly, genuinely thrilling.
  5. ↑ "NEWS: Letlive. Share 'Fake History' demo collection for 10th anniversary!". 13 April 2020.
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