| Is This Room Getting Smaller | ||||
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| Released | November 20, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 4th Street Studios | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, [1] nu metal [2] | |||
| Length | 50:47 | |||
| Label | Maverick | |||
| Producer | Jim Wirt | |||
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Is This Room Getting Smaller is the debut studio album by the California rock music group Onesidezero. The album was released on November 20, 2001 via Maverick Records.
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| Allmusic |   [3] |
VH1 listed Is This Room Getting Smaller as one of 12 "underrated nu metal albums". [2] In 2006, Swedish singer Lisa Miskovsky recorded a cover of the song "Instead Laugh".
All tracks are written by Onesidezero, except "Never Ending" written by Jim Wirt and Onesidezero
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Instead Laugh" | 3:55 |
| 2. | "Holding Cell" | 3:37 |
| 3. | "New World Order" | 3:31 |
| 4. | "A Point in Time" | 3:58 |
| 5. | "Tapwater" | 4:04 |
| 6. | "Shed the Skin" | 4:12 |
| 7. | "Awake" | 3:38 |
| 8. | "The Day We Lied" | 3:34 |
| 9. | "Soak" | 2:54 |
| 10. | "Eight" | 4:41 |
| 11. | "Never Ending" | 5:06 |
| 12. | "Underground" | 7:21 |
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