Real Life (Evermore album)

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Real Life
Real Life cover
Studio album by Evermore
Released July 8, 2006
Recorded 2005 - 2006 at Longview Farm Recording Studios, Massachusetts and The Village Recording Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Rock
Length 49:55
Label Warner Music
Producer(s) Jon Hume, John Alagía
Evermore chronology
Dreams
(2004)		 Real Life
(2006)


Real Life is the second album by New Zealand band Evermore. It was released on 8 July 2006. The album debuted on the ARIA charts at #5 and on the RIANZ charts at #2.

The first single from the album was "Running", released on 3 June 2006. "Light Surrounding You" was the next single that followed. The next single from the album will be "Unbreakable".

Contents

[edit] Production

The band wrote and did the initial recordings of the songs at their Central Coast home studio in New South Wales, Australia. This time around, all three brothers had an input on the songwriting with everyone working on their songs individually before bringing them together for the final polish. The band wrote a lot of songs with Dann writing over one hundred songs.

After two months, the band flew to Easton, Maryland, USA where they met up with engineer John Alagía who the band worked with on Dreams. The band chose to work with John Alagía because they knew he'd let them get on with the job. "To be honest, we did nearly all of it without him," says Jon, who has always looked after producing duties. "We basically worked with him because we had to - the record company wouldn't allow us to do it all ourselves." [1]

After some preproduction work, the band headed to Massachusetts, USA where in keeping true to their rural roots recorded at Longview Farm, the oldest recording studio still operating in the US and where artists such as Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and Aerosmith have recorded. The album was also recorded at The Village Recording Studios in Los Angeles and was mixed by Grammy Award winning engineer Tom Lord-Alge in Miami. [2]

[edit] Track listing

Music sample:
  1. "Real Life" – 4:36 (D. Hume, J. Hume, P. Hume)
  2. "Running" – 4:23 (D. Hume)
  3. "Light Surrounding You" – 3:50 (D. Hume)
  4. "Unbreakable" – 3:28 (J. Hume, D. Hume)
  5. "Morning Star" – 3:15 (P. Hume)
  6. "Never Let You Go" – 4:16 (J. Hume)
  7. "My Guiding Light" – 4:07 (D. Hume, J. Hume,)
  8. "Afloat" – 5:28 (J. Hume)
  9. "The Great Unknown" – 4:29 (J. Hume)
  10. "The Only One I See" – 5:01 (J. Hume)
  11. "Inside Of Me" – 4:30 (P. Hume)
  12. "Goodnight Is Not The End" – 2:32 (D. Hume)

[edit] Chart statistics

Album

Year Chart Peak position
2006 Australian ARIA chart [3] 5
2006 New Zealand RIANZ chart [4] 2

Singles

Year Single Chart Peak position
2006 "Running" Australian ARIA chart 5
2006 "Running" New Zealand RIANZ chart 4
2006 "Light Surrounding You" Australian ARIA chart 1 (in 2007)
2006 "Light Surrounding You" New Zealand RIANZ chart 15

[edit] Personnel

  • Jon Hume - Vocals, Guitar
  • Peter Hume - Vocals, Piano, Keyboards, Bass Guitar
  • Dann Hume - Vocals, Drums

[edit] References

  1. ^ Barry, Rebecca. "Evermore in the running", NZ Herald, 2006-07-02. Retrieved on 2006-07-08.
  2. ^ "Production information", Amplifier.co.nz. Retrieved on 2006-07-09.
  3. ^ "ARIA Charts", ARIA. Retrieved on 2006-07-17.
  4. ^ "RIANZ Charts", RIANZ. Retrieved on 2006-07-22.

[edit] External links

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