Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains

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Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains
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Studio album by Sebastien Grainger
Released October 21, 2008
Genre Indie rock
Label Saddle Creek
Sebastien Grainger chronology
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Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains
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Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains is the debut solo album by Sebastien Grainger. The album was originally released in 2008.

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 13 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Sebastien Grainger Canadian musician

Sebastien Alexandre Grainger is a Canadian singer and musician, best known as drummer and singer of the alt-rock duo Death from Above and the singer and guitarist for his band Sebastien Grainger and The Mountains. He is part owner of Giant Studios in Toronto, Ontario with Jimmy Shaw of Metric.

Track listing

  1. "Love Can Be So Mean" – 3:26
  2. "Who Do We Care For?" – 2:28
  3. "By Cover of Night (Fire Fight)" – 3:47
  4. "I'm All Rage (Live '05)" – 4:12
  5. "I Hate My Friends" – 4:32
  6. "(Are There) Ways to Come Home?" – 4:03
  7. "Niagara" – 1:28
  8. "(I Am Like A) River" – 4:30
  9. "Love Is Not a Contest" – 2:38
  10. "American Names" – 4:12
  11. "Meet New Friends" – 5:13
  12. "Renegade Silence" (feat. The Rhythm Method) – 3:38

Personnel

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