So Sudden

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So Sudden
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Studio album by
ReleasedEarly 2005 (independent)
October 11, 2005 (mainstream)
Genre Indie pop, indie rock
Label None (independent)
Decaydance, Fueled by Ramen (mainstream)
The Hush Sound chronology
So Sudden
(2005)
Like Vines
(2006)

So Sudden is the debut album of The Hush Sound. It was first released independently during early 2005. [1] It was re-released after the band signed to Decaydance Records, Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz's independent record label. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Bob Morris and Greta Salpeter, except where noted.

  1. "City Traffic Puzzle" (3:29)
  2. "Weeping Willow" (2:17)
  3. "Crawling Towards the Sun" (2:57)
  4. "The Artist" (3:36)
  5. "Unsafe Safe" (3:34)
  6. "Momentum" (3:32)
  7. "Hourglass" (2:37)
  8. "Echo" (4:59)
  9. "My Apologies" (2:16)
  10. "The Market" (Morris, Chris Faller) (1:54)
  11. "Tides Change" (1:22)
  12. "Carry Me Home" (2:17)
  13. "Eileen" (3:31)

Personnel

Recording

So Sudden was recorded at The Gallery of Carpet Studios in Villa Park, IL with owner/engineer/producer Brian Zieske.
"The Artist", the fourth track, contains many allusions to Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray , primarily the prologue. The thirteenth track, "Eileen", also contains an allusion to Robert Herrick’s poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time".[ citation needed ]

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