Real Life (Evermore album)
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| 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 | Jon Hume, John Alagía | ||||||||||
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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[1] and on the RIANZ charts at #2.[2] The album reached double-platinum certification in Australia.[3]
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 was "Unbreakable" which was released 3 March 2007. The fourth single from the album "Never Let You Go" was released on 16 June 2007. There are rumours of the self-titled album track "Real Life" being released but nothing is confirmed yet.
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[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. "We basically worked with him because we had to - the record company wouldn't allow us to do it all ourselves." [4]
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. [5]
[edit] Track listing
Evermore "Light Surrounding You" (2006)
- "Real Life – 4:36
- "Running" – 4:23
- "Light Surrounding You" – 3:50
- "Unbreakable" – 3:28
- "Morning Star" – 3:15
- "Never Let You Go" – 4:16
- "My Guiding Light" – 4:07
- "Afloat" – 5:28
- "The Great Unknown" – 4:29
- "The Only One I See" – 5:01
- "Inside of Me" – 4:30
- "Goodnight Is Not the End" – 2:32
Australian iTunes bonus tracks
- 13. "If I Could" – 4:26
- 14. "The Great Unknown" (Video) – 4:23
[edit] Chart statistics
Album
| Year | Chart | Peak position |
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| 2006 | Australian ARIA chart [1] | 5 |
| 2006 | New Zealand RIANZ chart [2] | 2 |
Singles
| Year | Title | Peak position | |
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| AUS | NZ | ||
| 2006 | "Running" | 5 | 4 |
| 2006 | "Light Surrounding You" | 1 | 15 |
| 2007 | "Unbreakable" | 63 | 28 |
| 2007 | "Never Let You Go" | 29 | 39 |
[edit] Personnel
- Jon Hume – vocals, guitar
- Peter Hume – vocals, piano, keyboards, bass guitar
- Dann Hume – vocals, drums
[edit] References
- ^ a b ARIA Charts. Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved on 2006-07-17.
- ^ a b RIANZ Charts. Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. Retrieved on 2006-07-22.
- ^ ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2006 Albums. ARIA. Retrieved on 2007-12-27.
- ^ Barry, Rebecca. "Evermore in the running", NZ Herald, 2006-07-02. Retrieved on 2006-07-08.
- ^ "Production information", Amplifier.co.nz. Retrieved on 2006-07-09.
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