Births, Deaths & Marriages

Births, Deaths & Marriages
Studio album by 26
Released 24 May 2008 (Australia)
Genre Indie rock, Alternative
Length 46:49
Label Floodboy Records
26 chronology
The Kings Must Die
(2005)		 Births, Deaths & Marriages
(2008)		 26x365
(2009)

Births, Deaths & Marriages is the second full-length studio album by Australian band 26, released in Australia on the 24th May 2008 by Floodboy Records and MGM Distribution.

With the band’s growing popularity from the band’s first album The King Must Die, 26 toured Australia in 2006 for the release of their single ‘Friendly Fire,’ which went on to win the highly regarded 2006 Queensland Song Award for Best Rock Song and was also a finalist in The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Awards. The single also received airplay on Triple J nationally and FBI 94.5 FM Sydney. With the release of their second album ‘Births, Deaths & Marriages’ in 2008 26’s track ‘Aloha’ was featured on the 3 Mobile website which led to it debuting at No#8 on the ARIA Digital Download Charts the following week. That same week 26 was chosen as one of only 40 acts to showcase at Queensland’s 2008 Big Sound Conference, one of the most respected and fastest growing music business events in the Asia Pacific region.

The band’s opening track, “A New Beginning” taken from the album featured in the season finale of NBC’s police procedural drama series, “Life”[1], created by Rand Ravich. The finale aired in the US and Canada to more than 5,000,000 viewers on Wednesday 8th April and aired in Australia (Network 10 - 29th April 9.30pm EST) to over 776,000 viewers. The show will air in another 22 countries. As a result ‘A New Beginning’, as well as other selected tracks from ‘26’s catalogue, are now receiving airplay on US College/Alternative/AAA stations.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written and composed by 26[2]. 

Births, Deaths & Marriages
No. Title Length
1. "Friendly Fire"   4:09
2. "Aloha"   3:44
3. "The Optimist"   4:31
4. "You & the Song You Rode In On"   5:10
5. "Births, Deaths & Marriages"   6:45
6. "Storm"   1:15
7. "Boy Meets Girl. Girl Meets Boy."   3:51
8. "Bear With a Sore Head"   4:35
9. "Dear Mr Devil,"   3:35
10. "Take Me Home"   4:55

Personnel

External links

References

  1. ^ "Life - Episode 221 Opening Track". http://www.nbc.com/Life/about/music.shtml. 
  2. ^ "APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). http://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.srvlt?action=workSearch. Retrieved 4 September 2009.