Seven More Minutes is the second studio album by American rock band The Rentals. It was released on April 13, 1999, and reached number 23 on Billboard's Heatseekers Album chart.[9]
The band would start recording around the summer of 1996, and eventually in the spring of 1997. Recording and mixing would be fully complete by the summer of 1998 but would be repeatedly delayed by the band's record label Maverick as they wanted Sharp to tweak things that he refused to do alongside Sharp's multiple revisions of the album.
Sharp said that a goal of his with Seven More Minutes was to make the album more universally accessible than its predecessor, which he said had been "on the geeky side of things".[11] While he said that both of the albums were personal reflections of his life at the time that he was writing them, this new album was more grand in scale.[11] Concerning the use of synthesizers, which were featured heavily in both albums, Sharp said that he had wanted to utilize them in a less "new wave" style with Seven More Minutes.[10]
Release and promotion
The album was released on April 13, 1999.[11] "Getting By" was released to rock radio stations several weeks earlier, on March 23. A retail single was planned with a b-side but it never materialised. A music video was filmed a few weeks before the single's release, showing various clips of Sharp roaming around Spain. "Hello, Hello" was also considered to be released as a single but that also didn't happen.[11]Maverick, the record label, said that they would be utilizing mailing lists for fans of The Rentals, Weezer, and bands whose members were featured in the album in order to promote the album.[11] Additionally, they would be distributing cassettesamplers of some of the songs at concerts for bands that they believed would have a similar fanbase for The Rentals.[11] Prior to the album's release, Sharp said that he planned to do a concert tour to promote the album, but the band didn't play any shows until August of 1999 in France, aswell as a warmup show in Los Angeles, and only did a short tour of Japan in October, before they embarked to Japan, Sharp would be told that the record label would be pulling the plug on any further promotion of the album, ultimately making the Japan tour the start and finish of the Seven More Minutes touring. A few speculations were given as to why the band barely played any shows, such as Sharp being burnt out and unable to find musicians to join The Rentals, aswell as apparently costing the record label alot of money in order to create and promote the album. [11] Sharp said that, while his commitment to Weezer had limited his ability to promote Return of the Rentals, he would be more active in this album's promotion.[11]
Critical reception
David Daley of CMJ New Music Monthly gave the album a positive review, calling it "more cohesive and daring than their debut, but with just as much kitschy new wave fun".[10] Miles Raymer of Entertainment Weekly also spoke positively of the album, saying it was "almost shockingly raw and honest".[12]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Matt Sharp, except where noted.
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