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| Released | April 2, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | October 2006 | |||
| Studio | Pulse Recording, Silver Lake | |||
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| Length | 39:26 | |||
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| Producer | Butch Walker | |||
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Santi is the second studio album by American rock band The Academy Is..., released on April 2, 2007 by Fueled by Ramen, Decaydance Records and Atlantic Records. It is their first release to feature Michael Guy Chislett on lead guitar after Tom Conrad's departure from the band.
On October 24, 2006, it was announced that guitarist Tom Conrad had been removed from the band. In the same announcement, it was revealed that the group was writing the follow-up to Almost Here. [1]
The album's working title was Chop Chop. William Beckett has explained the origin of Santi and how it came to be the album title in the Australian music magazine Blunt in the following story:
"Adam and I went to the same high school, and there was this dude named Josh Santiago who we went to school with. I was doing a solo project at the time, and I was listening to different music than most people – stuff like The Get Up Kids, The Promise Ring and Jimmy Eat World – and people there just didn't get me or what I was like. So this one guy in particular, Josh Santiago, gave me a hell of a time, like busted my chops and called me negative names like "fag" and stuff. Anyway, he had a Dave Matthews cover band called Santi, because his name was Santiago and he's just that kind of guy. So we started saying Santi as everything that wasn't him – everything that was positive, just because he was such a negative dude and such a terrible person. So we started saying santi as something funny or cool, kinda like "cheers" or we say it as a greeting, like, 'Whats up, Santi?' So it's a word we've been using for a long time and when it came time to name the record we listened to it and went like, 'Santi!' – it always had to be the name."
The first preview of the album was provided by Johnny Minardi of Snakes and Suits fame on January 26, 2007, when he gave the song, "LAX to O'Hare", to Absolutepunk.net for streaming on their site. [2] "We've Got a Big Mess on Our Hands" was announced as the first single from the album; [3] it was posted on their PureVolume profile on February 6, 2007, before being released to radio on March 13. [4] [5] They embarked on a UK tour with the Audition. [6] On March 27, Santi was made available for streaming, [7] and on April 3, was released through Fueled By Ramen. [8] From early May to early July, the band supported Fall Out Boy on the 2007 edition of the Honda Civic Tour. [9] "Everything We Had" was released to radio on July 17. [10] From early September to late November, the band went on their first headlining tour, [11] titled Sleeping with Giants. They were supported by Armor for Sleep, the Rocket Summer, Sherwood [12] and Cobra Starship. [13] In the midst of this, the band appeared at the Street Scene festival. [14] A music video for "Everything We Had" was posted online on September 14, 2007. [15] A music video for "Same Blood" was released on December 12, featuring footage from a performance in Japan. [16]
The music video for "Neighbors", shows the band at a concert, and in various other scenarios. There are cameos from different bands participating in the Honda Civic Tour, such as Mark Hoppus of +44 and Blink-182, Andy Hurley, Pete Wentz and Joe Trohman of Fall Out Boy and Gabe Saporta of Midtown and Cobra Starship.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AbsolutePunk.net | (84%) [17] |
| Allmusic |    [18] |
| Blender | [19] |
| IGN | 5.3/10 [20] |
| Rolling Stone | [21] |
| Spin | [22] |
In its first week of sales in the U.S., the album sold 33,000 copies, debuting at number 32 on the Billboard 200 [23] and #94 on the UK Albums Chart. By October 2009, the album's sales stood at 132,000. [24] idobi Radio included the album on their best of 2007 list. [25]
All music written by The Academy Is.... All lyrics written by William Beckett.
| Chart | Position |
|---|---|
| Billboard 200 | 32 |
| Rock Albums | 7 |
| Digital Albums | 32 |
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Midtown is an American pop-punk band from New Brunswick, New Jersey. Midtown was formed in November 1998 by three Rutgers University students, but quickly became a quartet. The group released three full-length studio albums and three extended plays before disbanding in 2005. In early 2014, Midtown reunited to play three shows, the first as a secret show at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, and the two remaining at the Skate And Surf Festival. They reunited for more shows in 2022 as openers on My Chemical Romance's reunion tour.
The Academy Is... are an American rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 2003. Before temporarily disbanding, they were signed by the Decaydance imprint of the Fueled by Ramen label. They were originally known as "The Academy", but added the "Is..." in 2004 to avoid legal complications with other established bands already under that name. The band has released three studio albums: Almost Here (2005), Santi (2007) and Fast Times at Barrington High (2008), along with four EPs. The band announced their disbandment on October 8, 2011. In May 2015, lead singer William Beckett announced that the band would reunite at Riot Fest 2015 in Chicago. In addition, the core members of the band, being Beckett, Mike Carden, Adam Siska, and Andy Mrotek, as well as Jamie Reed Schefman and Ian Crawford, reunited for a farewell tour that took place during December 2015. They announced that they would be reuniting again on May 11, 2022, alongside the announcement of their participation in the 2022 Riot Fest. They have since played shows opening for Fall Out Boy and in When We Were Young (festival), however have yet to announce new musical endeavors.
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