One Day as a Lion (EP)

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One Day as a Lion EP
One day as a lion cd.jpg
EP by
ReleasedJuly 18, 2008
Genre Rap rock
Length20:20
Label Anti-
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Billboard (favourable) [2]
Drowned in Sound (8/10) [3]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]

One Day as a Lion is the debut EP by One Day as a Lion, the musical duo consisting of Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha on vocals/keyboard and Jon Theodore, formerly of The Mars Volta, on drums. The mixing for the album was done by Mario C.

Contents

On July 16 the track "Wild International" was made available to stream on the band's MySpace page. [6] It was also premiered by Los Angeles radio station KROQ as well as Australian radio station Triple J. [6] The EP was released on July 18, 2008, in Australia and July 22, 2008, in the US.

Commercial performance

One Day as a Lion's eponymous EP placed at number 28 on the US Billboard 200, selling 17,000 copies in its first week. [7]

Track listing

  1. "Wild International" – 3:47
  2. "Ocean View" – 4:07
  3. "Last Letter" – 3:58
  4. "If You Fear Dying" – 3:57
  5. "One Day as a Lion" – 4:25

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for One Day as a Lion
Chart (2008)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [8] 56
US Billboard 200 28
US Top Independent Albums 3

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. "Billboard review". Archived from the original on 2008-08-06. Retrieved 2008-08-06.
  3. "Drowned in Sound review". Archived from the original on 2010-02-18. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  4. Rolling Stone review
  5. The Skinny review
  6. 1 2 "One Day as a Lion's MySpace Page" . Retrieved 2008-07-21.
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20080817082637/http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=816353
  8. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 208.