Leave Your Light On

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Leave Your Light On
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 2, 2006
Recorded Dayville, CT and
Brighton, MA
May — October 2005
Genre Rock
Length46:00
Label Lemon Merchant
Producer Hugh Wyman
Aloud chronology
The Sooner It Comes (EP)
(2004)
Leave Your Light On
(2006)
Fan The Fury
(2008)
Singles from Leave Your Light On
  1. "All I Can Do"
    Released: December 4, 2005
  2. "Beaches"
    Released: April 5, 2006
  3. "Can You Hear Me Now?"
    Released: March 5, 2007
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Boston Phoenix Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Performer Magazine (Favorable) [2]
The Noise(Favorable) [3]

Leave Your Light On is the name of Aloud's debut full-length album, which was released on May 2, 2006 on Lemon Merchant Records. The majority was recorded from May through August 2005 in Dayville, Connecticut, with the rest being completed in Brighton, Massachusetts. It was produced by Hugh Wyman (ex-guitarist of Baby Strange and The Luxury).

Contents

The album was released to college radio stations (and some commercial stations) the second week of May. National radioplay for the album peaked on the RIYL Music chart in July at #191 (out of 875).

Leave Your Light On also received many favorable reviews upon its release, most notably in the Northeast United States and online music blogs. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

In April, a music video was released for the song "Beaches", the album's leadoff single. Another video for "Can You Hear Me Now?" was released in early March 2007.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Release"3:24
2."Palm of Your Hand"4:25
3."Beaches"3:20
4."Can You Hear Me Now?"2:24
5."All I Can Do"5:08
6."Slipped In Your Dream"5:20
7."Bleeding Heart"3:43
8."Love is a Beast"3:51
9."Wouldn't It Be Sweet"5:51
10."Late Last Nite"4:21
11."Godspeed"4:07
5th anniversary bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."From Somebody Like You"2:42
13."Love is a Beast (demo)"3:26
14."Bleeding Heart (live)"3:42

Personnel

Aloud

Additional personnel

Additional engineering by Hugh Wyman and Aloud.

Notes

  1. "The Boston Phoenix review".
  2. Performer Magazine review Archived 2006-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  3. The Noise review Archived 2006-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Aloud and Clear", Stuff@Night Magazine, May 9, 2006
  5. CD Review, The Noise, July 2006 Archived 2006-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
  6. CD Review, Performer Magazine (Northeast), July 2006 Archived 2006-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "Blogger". myspacemusicreview.blogspot.com.
  8. "Hot Stof: Don't Trust the Beaches, September 12, 2006".

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