Phoenix (The Classic Crime album)

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Phoenix
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Studio album by
the Classic Crime
ReleasedAugust 14, 2012
Genre Alternative rock, indie rock, emo pop [1]
Length52:17
Label Independent
Producer Matt MacDonald
The Classic Crime chronology
Vagabonds
(2010)		Phoenix
(2012)		 What Was Done, Vol. 1: A Decade Revisited
(2014)
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Phoenix is the fourth album from rock band the Classic Crime. The album was released on August 14, 2012. Phoenix was funded through the website Kickstarter and is the first album released independently by the Classic Crime. Kickstarter backers were able to digitally download the album two weeks prior to its release date. [2] At the completion of its funding, Phoenix was the ninth most funded musical project on Kickstarter. [3]

Contents

Background and funding

A Kickstarter project entitled "The Classic Crime's New Album" was created on March 8, 2012 with a funding goal of $30,000 and was met within the first twenty-four hours of the project being posted. [4] By April 12, 2012, the end of the funding period, the project had received $86,278 in pledges from 1,981 backers. [2]

The band announced the title of the album on June 12, 2012 through its Facebook and Twitter page. [5] Lead singer Matt MacDonald described the title, Phoenix, as cliche but symbolic, stating that hope for the future of the band is "back, it's different, you know? It's better than it was but it's back". [6] MacDonald compared the styling of the songs to previous albums saying, "For those of you who prefer Albatross , there are 3 songs you will gravitate to. For those of you who like The Silver Cord , there are probably 5 songs you will gravitate to. For those of you who like when we stretch the boundaries a bit, there are another 4 tracks you'll probably be ecstatic about.". [7]

Track listing

Album release
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."One Man Army" (Intro)Matt MacDonald, Paul Eriksen, Robbie Negrin2:57
2."You and Me Both"MacDonald, Eriksen, Negrin3:56
3."Young Again"MacDonald, Daniel Koch3:55
4."Beautiful Darkside"MacDonald4:37
5."Heaven and Hell"MacDonald, Koch5:04
6."The Precipice"MacDonald3:38
7."Let Me Die"MacDonald3:53
8."Glass Houses"MacDonald, Eriksen, Negrin4:21
9."Dead Rose"MacDonald, Eriksen, Negrin4:03
10."Painted Dreams"MacDonald, Eriksen, Negrin4:05
11."What I'd Give Up"MacDonald3:48
12."City of Orphans"MacDonald5:01
13."I Will Wait" (Outro)MacDonald, Eriksen, Negrin2:59
Total length:52:17

Credits

and Jeff Blackburn

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Parker, Chris. "Phoenix". Alternative Press. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  2. 1 2 "The Classic Crime's New Album Kickstarter".
  3. ↑ Van Pelt, Doug. "The Classic Crime to release new album". The Hard Music Magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
  4. ↑ MacDonald, Matt. "You". Kickstarter. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Twitter / theclassiccrime: The new album is titled "PHOENIX"."
  6. ↑ "Phoenix Podcast - Ep. 1". Archived from the original on 2012-08-16. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  7. ↑ MacDonald, Matt. "Mixing the Record". Kickstarter. Retrieved August 7, 2012.


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