Life Behind Machines

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Life Behind Machines
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 6, 2012
Genre Pop punk, Alternative rock, electronic rock
Length40:01
Label Universal Japan
Allister chronology
Countdown to Nowhere
(2010)
Life Behind Machines
(2012)
20 Years and Counting
(2019)

Life Behind Machines is the fifth full-length studio album from Allister, a pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois, released in the U.S. on November 6, 2012.

This is the band's second album with Universal Japan and their first full-length since 2010's Countdown to Nowhere. It continues on with Allister's old pop punk sound but adds a few out-of-genre anomalies throughout the album. The band then released a music video for the single "5 Years" on October 3, 2012. [1]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."5 Years"3:45
2."A Thousand Miles Away"2:21
3."Haley"3:04
4."Stuck Powered On"3:33
5."Drive"3:36
6."Pretty Damn Close"4:00
7."Tethered To The Wall"3:26
8."Something Better"3:24
9."If You Didn't Mean It"3:13
10."Live Fast, Die Young"3:53
11."Perfect Harmony"3:28
12."The Loco-Motion"2:18
Total length:40:01

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References

  1. ALLiSTER - 5 Years , retrieved 2022-07-31 - on Youtube