Radiant (Iris album)

Radiant
Studio album by Iris
Released October 24, 2014
Genre Electronic rock, indietronica, electropop
Length 45:05
Label Dependent Records
Producer Andrew Sega
Iris chronology

Blacklight
(2010)
Radiant
(2014)

Radiant is the fifth studio album by the electropop band Iris, released on October 24, 2014 through Dependent Records.[1][2][3][4][5]

Background

In a 2012 interview, Andrew Sega said that while writing "Cruel Silence" from the album Blacklight, he knew it "had a non-zero chance of being the last song on the last ever Iris album."[6] After finishing the U.S. tour for Blacklight, Reagan Jones and Sega parted ways due to a tour argument, and Iris was put on hold.[1] There was more than a year of silence between the band members, and Sega thought that Iris would never again release another album.[7] However, this ended when Jones sent Sega three demo songs, which would form the basis of Radiant.[1][7] In 2014, Iris signed with Dependent Records.[2][4]

According to Sega, "[Radiant] is the story of a man who all of a sudden sees his world within a new environment and realises how bright and radiant it can truly be, if one looks upon it with different eyes."[1]

The album was mastered at Timeless Mastering in Brooklyn, New York using entirely analog recording.[8]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Reagan Jones and Andrew Sega. 

No. Title Length
1. "Another Way"   3:09
2. "Phenom"   4:05
3. "Wayseer"   4:13
4. "In the Clear"   3:46
5. "Sound Becomes Waves"   7:08
6. "Don't Cry"   4:29
7. "Infinite Yonder"   4:13
8. "Cries of Insanity"   3:44
9. "Rewired"   3:21
10. "Sight Unseen"   3:18
11. "Life in a Forest"   3:37
Total length:
45:05

Personnel

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Radiant". Dependent Records. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Dependent sign Iris: new album "Radiant" almost completed!". Peek-a-Boo. April 23, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  3. Vorndran, Daniela (April 24, 2014). "IRIS - Sign to DEpendent Records - new album "Radiant" almost completed!". Reflections of Darkness. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Iris: Neues Album bei Dependent / auf Tour mit Seabound im April". Sonic Seducer. April 3, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  5. Messner, Sonja (April 18, 2014). "IRIS – unterzeichnen bei Dependent Records". Tombstone. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  6. Ward, J. (November 2, 2012). ":INTERVIEW: IRIS". Coma. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  7. 7.0 7.1 "IRIS have just finished their new album: RADIANT, a manifest of intense electronic craftmanship". Dependent Records. August 9, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  8. "Mastering the new record at Timeless in Brooklyn (TRUST, Haerts, etc), in 100% analog!". Iris. March 26, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2014.