White Ink, Black Ink

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White Ink, Black Ink
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Studio album by Wheat
Released July 21, 2009
Genre Indie rock
Length33:22
Label The Rebel Group
Producer Wheat and Ray Jeffrey
Wheat chronology
Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square
(2007)
White Ink, Black Ink
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork Media (7.4/10) [1]

White Ink, Black Ink is the fifth full-length album by Wheat. It was released in the summer of 2009. In the song "Changes Is" the little girl who can be heard searching for her blanket is lead singer Scott Levesque's daughter, Tru Leigh Levesque.

Wheat (band) band

Wheat is an American indie-rock band formed by Scott Levesque, Brendan Harney, Ricky Brennan Jr., and Kenny Madaras (bass) in Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1996.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Wheat (Brendan Harney and Scott Levesque).

  1. H.O.T.T. – 2:27
  2. Changes Is – 3:52
  3. My Warning Song (Everything Is Gonna Be Alright) – 3:07
  4. El Sincero – 2:56
  5. Living 2 Die Vs. Dying 2 Live – 3:07
  6. If Everything Falls Together – 2:50
  7. Music Is Drugs – 4:41
  8. Coke and Tanqueray – 0:31
  9. Mountains – 3:41
  10. I Want Less – 4:03
  11. Baby in My Way – 2:07

Production notes

Recorded at Liberty and Union (Taunton, Mass.); additional recording by Wheat at home. Mixed by Eli Janney at Ishlab and Saltlands (Brooklyn, N.Y.). Mastered by Joe Lambert at Joe Lambert Mastering (Brooklyn). Additional playing by Luke Hebert and Ray Jeffrey; strings by Chris Baum.

Saltlands Studio is a recording studio based in New York City neighborhood of Dumbo, Brooklyn, founded in 2007 by owner Steve Salett and partners Dawn Landes and Gary Maurer. It was later joined by music producers and engineers Eli Janney, Jim Smith, and Aaron Rutledge. The studio gained notoriety with records by French Kicks, Alexi Murdoch, Josh Ritter, The Soft Pack, Wilco, Robbers on High Street, Obits, and the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. The studio also functions as a collective of commercial composers, and in the spring of 2010 the studio received attention for the composition of the song that was awarded the Cannes Lions 2010 "Best Use of Music in a Commercial" Award for the Match.com commercial.

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References

  1. Deusner, Stephen. "White Ink, Black Ink". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2011-08-22.