Little Hell (album)

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Little Hell
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Studio album by
City and Colour
ReleasedJune 7, 2011
RecordedJanuary – February 2011
StudioCatherine North Studios, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Genre
Length47:27
Label Dine Alone, Vagrant
Producer Alex Newport
City and Colour chronology
Bring Me Your Love
(2008)		Little Hell
(2011)		 The Hurry and the Harm
(2013)
Singles from Little Hell
  1. "Fragile Bird"
    Released: April 5, 2011
  2. "Weightless"
    Released: 2011
  3. "The Grand Optimist"
    Released: 2012
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 78/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk 86% [4]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
BlareStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Rock Sound 8/10 [2]
Spin 7/10 [7]

Little Hell is the third album by City and Colour, released on June 7, 2011. Besides Dallas Green who recorded the majority of the instrumentals himself, contributing musicians on the record include Daniel Romano of Attack in Black, Dylan Green and Scott Remila of Raising the Fawn, Nick Skalkos of The Miniatures, Misha Bower of Bruce Peninsula and Anna Jarvis and Jordan Mitchell of The Rest. The album art is an illustration of Allard Schager's photograph "Fields of Gold", taken in a tulip field outside Alkmaar in North Holland. [8]

Contents

The album 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 78, based on 11 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". [3] The track "Sorrowing Man" was used as the opening theme song of the Thandiwe Newton series Rogue during its second season, and was also used in the One Tree Hill ninth-season episode, "A Rush of Blood to the Head". Album cover art work inspired by the 1976 film Futureworld. In the film once the cast enters the simulation the art work hanging on the wall at the 27:53 time stamp can be seen however not identical to the album cover the inspiration is revealed.

Promotion and release

Green began performing the songs "O' Sister" and "Silver and Gold" live on his Canadian tour in September 2009, while most of the album was already written, although it was not recorded until January 2011. Although "O' Sister" had been confirmed by Green to be the first single, "Fragile Bird" was released instead, on April 5, 2011. [9] The music video of "Fragile Bird" was premiered on Dallas' YouTube channel on May 26, 2011. [10] On February 23, 2011, Green revealed the album's name as Little Hell. [11] On March 23, 2011, Green revealed the album's track listing and release date on his MySpace blog. [12] On May 31, 2011, a week before the release, the album was streamed for free through the websites of MTV and MuchMusic for Canadian residents. The album debuted at number 1 on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling over 20,000 copies in its first week, [13] and at number 28 on the US Billboard 200.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dallas Green

No.TitleLength
1."We Found Each Other in the Dark"4:22
2."Natural Disaster"3:50
3."The Grand Optimist"4:05
4."Little Hell"4:43
5."Fragile Bird"4:17
6."Northern Wind"4:16
7."O' Sister"4:16
8."Weightless"3:32
9."Sorrowing Man"4:32
10."Silver and Gold"4:40
11."Hope for Now"4:57
iTunes bonus tracks [14]
No.TitleLength
12."Weightless" (Demo)2:11
13."O' Sister" (Live)4:05
14."At the Bird's Foot" (Vocal)4:15

Personnel

City and Colour

Additional musicians

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [24] Gold35,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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