The Airborne Toxic Event (album)

The Airborne Toxic Event
Studio album by The Airborne Toxic Event
Released August 5, 2008 (US)
February 9, 2009 (UK)
Recorded Los Angeles, 2007
Genre Alternative rock, indie rock
Length 37:17
Label Majordomo Records
Shout! Factory
Island Records
Mercury Records
Producer Pete Min
The Airborne Toxic Event chronology
Does This Mean You're Moving On? EP
(2007)		 The Airborne Toxic Event
(2008)		 All at Once
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AbsolutePunk.net (91%) [1]
Allmusic link
The A.V. Club (C+) [2]
Blender [3]
Drowned in Sound [4]
The Guardian [5]
Pitchfork Media [6]
PopMatters [7]
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The Airborne Toxic Event is the self-titled debut album by the American alternative rock band The Airborne Toxic Event, first released in the US on August 5, 2008 by Majordomo Records/Shout! Factory. The album was re-released by Island Records on March 16, 2009 following the band's signing to the label. The entire album was recorded using a recording studio in the home of Pete Min, the band's producer. The first single in the US was Sometime Around Midnight, which reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart.

The album was released in the UK on February 9, 2009 and features three bonus tracks. First single "Gasoline" was released on November 17, 2008, and second single "Sometime Around Midnight" was released on February 2, 2009. "Gasoline" is also a playable track in the video game "Band Hero".

"Sometime Around Midnight" was picked as the Starbucks Pick of the Week as an acoustic for May 6.

Both "Sometime Around Midnight" and "Does This Mean You're Moving On?" were written about the same former girlfriend of Mikel Jollet's. [8]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Mikel Jollett.

  1. "Wishing Well" – 3:56
  2. "Papillon" – 3:17
  3. "Gasoline" – 3:20
  4. "Happiness Is Overrated" – 3:11
  5. "Does This Mean You're Moving On?" – 2:12
  6. "This Is Nowhere" – 2:48
  7. "Sometime Around Midnight" – 5:02
  8. "Something New" – 3:05
  9. "Missy" – 3:38
  10. "Innocence" – 6:48
European bonus tracks
  1. "The Winning Side" – 4:16
  2. "This Losing" – 3:37
  3. "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" – 3:21
iTunes-only bonus track
  1. "The Winning Side" – 4:16

Singles

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2008) Peak
position
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders) 70
U.S. Billboard 200[9] 108
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers 1
UK Albums Chart 35

References

  1. ^ http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=558721
  2. ^ http://www.avclub.com/content/music/the_airborne_toxic_event
  3. ^ http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=5221
  4. ^ http://drownedinsound.com/releases/13943/reviews/4136160
  5. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/30/the-airborne-toxic-event-review
  6. ^ http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/145326-the-airborne-toxic-event-the-airborne-toxic-event
  7. ^ http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/the-airborne-toxic-event-the-airborne-toxic-event1
  8. ^ Does This Mean You're Moving On? Songfacts
  9. ^ Billboard