Vision Valley
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| Studio album by The Vines | |||||
| Released |  1 April 2006 3 April 2006 4 April 2006 |
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| Recorded | BJB studios, Sydney | ||||
| Genre | Garage rock, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Post-grunge | ||||
| Length | 31:29 | ||||
| Label | EMI, Capitol Records | ||||
| Producer | Wayne Connolly, The Vines | ||||
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Vision Valley is The Vines' third album. It was released on 1 April 2006 in Australia and on 3 April 2006 everywhere else except in the USA, where it was released on 4 April 2006. There are no contributions made to the record by bassist Patrick Matthews due to his involvement with the band Youth Group, and the band's video podcast proves this.
Due to lack of promotion, the album suffered a lackluster debut in the United States, debuting at an underwhelming #136 on the Billboard charts and selling a disappointing 7,839 units. By week 2, the album completely slid off the Billboard 200.
The album received mixed reviews from many critics. However there were mostly positive reviews from the United Kingdom in particular, with music publications such as Q and NME giving the album 4/5 stars, and some even claiming it was of greater quality than their explosive debut Highly Evolved. Q had Vision Valley at #69 in their Albums of 2006 Poll, dubbing the songs 'superior grunge anthems'.
Most of the songs riffs on this album are power chords which is slightly different from the riffs found on the 2 previous albums.
This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
All tracks written by Craig Nicholls.
- "Anysound" – 1:55
- "Nothin's Comin'" – 2:00
- "Candy Daze" – 1:40
- "Vision Valley" – 2:42
- "Don't Listen to the Radio" – 2:10
- "Gross Out" – 1:18
- "Take Me Back" – 2:42
- "Going Gone" – 2:44
- "F*k Yeh" – 1:58
- "Futuretarded" – 1:47
- "Dope Train" – 2:36
- "Atmos" – 1:50
- "Spaceship" – 6:07
[edit] Special edition DVD
- "Highly Evolved"
- "Get Free"
- "Outtathaway"
- "Homesick"
- "Ride"
- "Winning Days"
- "Gross Out"
- "Studio Walkthrough with Wayne Connolly"
[edit] Personnel
- Craig Nicholls – vocals, guitars, keys, bass on "Futuretarded"
- Ryan Griffiths – guitars, keys, percussion, backing vocals
- Hamish Rosser – drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Andy Kent (You Am I) – bass
- Tim Kevin (La Huva) – special arrangements, piano, organ
- Nic Dalton (Half A Cow Records) – electric mandolin
- Amanda Brown – violin
- Rowan Smith – violin
- Sophie Glasson – cello
[edit] Production
- Wayne Connolly – producer, recorder, mixing
- Dan Clinch – additional engineering
- Anthony The – additional engineering
- Veit Mahler – additional engineering
[edit] Recording and mixing
Vision Valley was recorded at Electric Avenue, Velvet Sound, Big Jesus Burger and NikiNali studios, Sydney, Australia. It was mixed at Velvet Sound and Electric Avenue and it was assisted by Veit Mahler, Jason Lea. At Velvet Sound, it was assisted by Dan Clinch and Anthony The and also at BJB, by Peter Farley and Jodie Wallance.
Vision Valley was mastered by Don Bartley at Stuio 301 in Sydney, Australia.
[edit] External links
- Dreamin the Insane Fan club
- TheVines.org Fan website
- Video podcast Podcast of the band talking about Vision Valley (with samples of "Anysound", "Nothin's Comin", "Vision Valley", "Don't Listen to the Radio", "Gross Out", "Going Gone", "Futuretarded" & "Spaceship".) Originally released on March 9, 2006. Please note that to watch the podcast you need to use a program called StuffIt to expand the file and once the file has been expanded/extracted it's required you have iTunes for play back.
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