Losing Sleep (Parachute album)

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Losing Sleep
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Studio album by
Parachute
ReleasedMay 19, 2009
August 4, 2009 (Deluxe Edition)
Genre Pop rock
Label Island Def Jam Music Group
Producer John Shanks
Parachute chronology
Losing Sleep
(2009)		 The Way It Was
(2011)
Singles from Losing Sleep
  1. "She Is Love"
    Released: May 13, 2009
  2. "Under Control"
    Released: May 17, 2009

Losing Sleep is the debut studio album from pop rock band Parachute. It debuted at number 40 on the Billboard 200 and debuted at number two on the Digital Albums Chart in the United States. [1]

Pop rock is rock music with a greater emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, early pop rock was influenced by the beat, arrangements, and original style of rock and roll. It may be viewed as a distinct genre field, rather than music that overlaps with pop and rock. The detractors of pop rock often deride it as a slick, commercial product, less authentic than rock music.

Parachute is an American pop-rock band from Charlottesville, Virginia. Formed in 2006, they released their major-label debut album, Losing Sleep, in 2009, followed by their second album, The Way It Was, in 2011 and their third album, Overnight, in 2013. Vanguard Records released the band's fourth album, Wide Awake, on March 11, 2016.

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its "number ones", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 in May 1967, and acquired its present title in March 1992. Its previous names include the Billboard Top LPs (1961–72), Billboard Top LPs & Tapes (1972–84), Billboard Top 200 Albums (1984–85) and Billboard Top Pop Albums.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Kaj Roth of Melodic gave high praise to the songs for being "catchy and groovy and shouts out longevity", singling out the single "She Is Love" as being an example of "many future hit singles that will conquer the air waves from now on." [3] AllMusic's Andrew Leahey noted how Shanks' "polished" production and the use of "thicker harmonies and gauzy, synthesized string sections" throughout the track listing speak of the band's mainstream aspirations, concluding that "ambition is good for any young band, and Parachute is talented enough to warrant the starry-eyed approach." [2]

Melodic is an international daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on independent music. However, the range of musical genres covered extends to rock, pop, folk, jazz, heavy metal, electronic, and experimental music.

AllMusic Online music database

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Track listing

All tracks are written by Will Anderson solely, unless otherwise noted.

Will Anderson (singer) main songwriter and lead vocalist in the pop-rock band Parachute

William Charles Anderson is an American singer and songwriter who is best known as the lead vocalist of the American pop rock band Parachute.

No.TitleLength
1."All That I Am"4:16
2."Back Again"3:04
3."She (For Liz) (co-written by John Shanks)"3:07
4."The Mess I Made"3:51
5."She Is Love"2:26
6."Ghost (co-written by Nate McFarland)"3:41
7."Under Control"3:55
8."Blame It on Me (co-written by Dan Wilson)"3:25
9."Words Meet Heartbeats (co-written by Chris Keup)"3:17
10."The New Year"4:14
11."She Is Love (Full Band Version)"3:05
Deluxe Edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."Be Here"3:54
13."Losing Sleep"3:42
14."All That I Am (Acoustic Version)"3:32
Amazon MP3 bonus track
No.TitleLength
12."Stuck in the Middle"3:49
iTunes bonus track
No.TitleLength
12."Strange World"3:47

Charts

Chart (2009)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200 [1] 40
U.S. Digital Albums [1] 2

Personnel

Parachute
Guitar Fretted string instrument

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Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses. Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music.

Additional personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Losing Sleep - Parachute - Billboard.com".
  2. 1 2 Leahey, Andrew. "Losing Sleep - Parachute". AllMusic . Retrieved August 8, 2011.
  3. 1 2 Roth, Kaj. "Parachute - Losing Sleep". Melodic . Retrieved August 14, 2013.
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