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The 1975: Being Funny In Foreign Language

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On October 14, 2022, “Dirty Hit” label released “Being Funny in a Foreign Language”, the fifth 1975 (the) studio album. It was recorded January – May 2022, at “Electric Lady” in New York City, “Real World” in Box, Wiltshire, and was produced by Matthew Healy, George Daniel and Jack Antonoff.

Personnel:

  • Matthew Healy – vocals, guitar, piano, clavinet, drums, percussion, string arrangements, creative direction
  • Adam Hann – guitar, programming, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Ross MacDonald – bass, double bass, keyboards, backing vocals
  • George Daniel – drums, keyboards, synthesizers, piano, percussion, programming, backing vocals, string arrangements
  • Jack Antonoff – guitar, piano, drums, backing vocals, violin, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, string arrangements
  • Tommy King – keyboards, synthesizers
  • BJ Burton – programming, synthesizers
  • Jamie Squire – piano, Wurlitzer, clavinet, synthesizers, organ, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Oli Jacobs – Wurlitzer
  • John Waugh – saxophone
  • Zem Audu – saxophone
  • Evan Smith – brass
  • Bobby Hawk – strings, string arrangements
  • Warren Ellis – strings, string arrangements
  • Michelle Zauner – backing vocals
  • Carly Holt – additional vocals
  • Sabrina the Teenage DJ – programming
  • Bobby Hawk – string arrangements
  • Ben Hudson – additional programming
  • BJ Burton – additional production
  • Laura Sisk – engineer
  • Oli Jacobs – engineer
  • Dom Shaw – engineer assistant
  • Katie May – engineer assistant
  • Freddy Williams – engineer assistant
  • John Rooney – engineer assistant
  • Dani Perez Carasols – engineer assistant
  • Liam Hebb – engineer assistant
  • Evan Smith – additional engineering
  • Jon Gautier – additional engineering
  • Andrew Gearhart – additional engineering
  • Dave Gross – additional engineering
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing
  • Chris Galland – mixing
  • Robin Florent – mixing assistant
  • Scott Desmarais – mixing assistant
  • Jeremie Inhaber – mixing assistant
  • Robin Schmidt – mastering
  • Samuel Burgess-Johnson – artwork, creative direction
  • Patricia Villirillo – creative direction
  • Ed Blow – creative direction
  • Samuel Bradley – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Matthew Healy and George Daniel, with co-writers as noted.

  1. The 1975 – BJ Burton, Tommy King
  2. Happiness – DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ
  3. Looking for Somebody (To Love) – Ilsey Juber, Jamie Squire
  4. Part of the Band – Jamie Squire
  5. Oh Caroline – Ilsey Juber, Jamie Squire, Benjamin Francis Leftwich
  6. I’m in Love with You – Adam Hann
  7. All I Need to Hear – Jamie Squire
  8. Wintering – Jacob Bugden
  9. Human Too – Jamie Squire, Benjamin Francis Leftwich
  10. About You
  11. When We Are Together – Rob Milton

Tegan And Sara: Love You To Death

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On June 3, 2016, “Vapor Records” label released “Love You to Death”, the eighth Tegan and Sara studio album. It was recorded in 2016, and was produced by Greg Kurstin.

Personnel:

  • Sara Quin – vocals
  • Tegan Quin – vocals
  • Greg Kurstin – keyboards, bass, drums, guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, engineer
  • Julian Burg – engineer
  • Alex Pasco – engineer
  • Ike Schultz – engineer assistant
  • Chris Galland – engineer assistant
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing
  • Emily Lazar – mastering
  • Chris Allgood – mastering assistant
  • Jeff Sosnow – A&R
  • E.E. Storey – art direction, design
  • Pamela Littky – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Tegan Quin and Sara Quin, except where noted.

  1. That Girl
  2. Faint of Heart
  3. Boyfriend – Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, Greg Kurstin
  4. Dying to Know – Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, Greg Kurstin, Jesse Shatkin
  5. Stop Desire
  6. White Knuckles
  7. 100x – Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, Jesse Shatkin
  8. BWU – Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, Greg Kurstin
  9. U-Turn – Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, Greg Kurstin
  10. Hang On to the Night

Glass Animals: Dreamland

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On August 7, 2020, “Wolf Tone” label released “Dreamland”, the third Glass Animals studio album. It was recorded in 2020, and was produced by Dave Bayley.

Personnel:

  • Dave Bayley – vocals, vocal bass, keyboards, guitar, drums, synthesizer, percussion, strings, programming, mixing
  • Andrew MacFarlane – strings, guitar, keyboards, programming
  • Edmund Irwin Singer – guitar, keyboards, vocal bass, strings, synthesizer, programming
  • Joe Seaward – drums, percussion
  • Paul Epworth – percussion, strings, synthesizer
  • Orit Braha – vocals
  • Denzel Curry – vocals
  • Letta Mbulu – vocals
  • David Wrench – programming
  • Dave Bayley – recording
  • Riley McIntyre – recording
  • Luke Pickering – recording assistant
  • Chloe Kramer – recording assistant
  • David Wrench – mixing
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing
  • Derek “MixedByAli” Ali – mixing
  • David Nakaji – mixing
  • Chris Galland – mixing
  • Curtis “Sircut” Bye – mixing assistant
  • Cyrus “NOIS” Taghipour – mixing assistant
  • Jeremie Inhaber – mixing assistant
  • Robin Florent – mixing assistant
  • Scott Desmarais – mixing assistant
  • Chris Gehringer – mastering
  • Mike Bozzi – mastering
  • Paul Epworth – co-production

Track listing:

All tracks by Dave Bayley, except where noted.

  1. Dreamland
  2. Tangerine – Dave Bayley, Paul Epworth, Brittany Hazzard
  3. Home Movie: 1994 – Dave Bayley, Orit Braha
  4. Hot Sugar – Dave Bayley, Ann Bridgeforth, Dave Hamilton, Rony Darrel
  5. Home Movie: BTX
  6. Space Ghost Coast to Coast
  7. Tokyo Drifting – Dave Bayley, Caiphus Semenya, Denzel Curry
  8. Melon and the Coconut
  9. Your Love (Déjà Vu) – Dave Bayley, Paul Epworth
  10. Waterfalls Coming Out Your Mouth
  11. It’s All So Incredibly Loud
  12. Home Movie: Rockets
  13. Domestic Blues
  14. Heat Waves
  15. Home Movie: Shoes On
  16. Helium

Foals: Life Is Yours

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On June 17, 2022, “Warner”, “Transgressive”, “ADA” labels released “Life Is Yours”, the seventh Foals studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Speedy Wunderground” in London, “Rea; World” in Bath, and was produced by A. K. Paul, Dan Carey and John Hill.

Personnel:

  • Yannis Philippakis – vocals, guitar, bass
  • Jimmy Smith – guitar, keyboards
  • Jack Bevan – drums, percussion
  • A. K. Paul – bass, additional keyboards
  • Jack Freeman – backing vocals
  • Kit Monteith – backing vocals
  • Rob Cohen – engineer
  • Christoph Skirl – engineer
  • Oli Middleton – engineer
  • Pete Hutchings – engineer
  • Alexis Smith – engineer
  • Mark Rankin – additional engineering 
  • James Keeley – additional engineering 
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing
  • Mark “Spike” Stent – mixing 
  • Chris Laws – mixing 
  • Chris Galland – mixing
  • Jeremie Inhaber – mixing assistant
  • Robin Florent – mixing assistant
  • Scott Desmarais – mixing assistant
  • Charlie Holmes – mixing assistant
  • Kieran Beardmore – mixing assistant
  • Matt Wolach – mixing assistant
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • Randy Merrill – mastering 

Track listing:

All tracks by Yannis Philippakis, Jack Bevan, and Jimmy Smith.

  1. Life Is Yours
  2. Wake Me Up
  3. 2am
  4. 2001
  5. Summer Sky
  6. Flutter
  7. Looking High
  8. Under the Radar
  9. Crest of the Wave
  10. The Sound
  11. Wild Green

Vampire Weekend: Father of the Bride

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On May 3, 2019, “Columbia” label released “Father of the Bride”, the fourth Vampire Weekend studio album. It was recorded January 2016 – August 2018, at “Effie Street” in  Silverlake, California, “Vox” in Hollywood, “Sony” in Akasaka, Minato, Japan, and was produced by Ariel Rechtshaid, Ezra Koenig, BloodPop, DJ Dahi and Rostam Batmanglij.

Personnel:

  • Ezra Koenig – lead vocals, guitars, mixing
  • Rostam Batmanglij – 12-string acoustic guitar
  • Tommy King – piano
  • Buddy Ross – synthesizers, Wurlitzer, piano, strings, backing vocals 
  • Matt Chamberlain – drums
  • Greg Leisz – electric and pedal steel guitar
  • David Longstreth – guitar, backing vocals
  • Jake Longstreth – guitar
  • John Nixon – guitar
  • Ariel Rechtshaid – guitar
  •  Steve Lacy – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Sam Gendel – saxophone
  • Serena McKinney – violins 
  • Danielle Haim – lead and backing vocals
  • Jude Law – lead vocals
  • Jenny Lewis – vocal sample
  • Ariel Rechtshaid – engineer, mixing
  • Buddy Ross – engineer, mixing
  • Shawn Everett – engineer, mixing
  • Rostam Batmanglij – engineer, mixing
  • Dalton Ricks – engineer
  • Nick Rowe – engineer
  • Chris Kasych – engineer
  • John DeBold – engineer
  • Hiroya Takayama – engineer
  • Takemasa Kosaka – engineer
  • Dave Schiffman – engineer
  • P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel) – engineer
  • Michael Harris – engineer
  • Jude Law – engineer
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing
  • Chris Galland – mixing
  • Robin Florent – mixing assistant
  • Scott Desmarais – mixing assistant
  • Emily Lazar – mastering
  • Chris Allgood – mastering assistant
  • Nick Harwood – art direction
  • Primo Kahn – cover design
  • Public-Library – cover design
  • Brendan Ratzlaff – illustration

Track listing:

All tracks by Ezra Koenig, except where noted.

  1. Hold You Now – Ezra Koenig, Hans Zimmer
  2. Harmony Hall
  3. Bambina
  4. This Life – Ezra Koenig, Makonnen Sheran, Mark Ronson
  5. Big Blue
  6. How Long? – Ezra Koenig, William Shelby, Stephen Shockley, Leon F. Silvers III
  7. Unbearably White
  8. Rich Man – Ezra Koenig, S. E. Rogie
  9. Married in a Gold Rush
  10. My Mistake – Ezra Koenig, Ludwig Göransson
  11. Sympathy – Ezra Koenig, Ariel Rechtshaid
  12. Sunflower
  13. Flower Moon – Ezra Koenig, Ariel Rechtshaid
  14. 2021 – Haruomi Hososno, Ezra Koenig
  15. We Belong Together – Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij
  16. Stranger
  17. Spring Snow – Ezra Koenig, BloodPop, Sam Gendel
  18. Jerusalem, New York, Berlin

Thirty Seconds to Mars: Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams

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On May 20, 2013, “Virgin” label released “Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams”, the fourth Thirty Seconds to Mars studio album. It was recorded April – December 2012, at “The International Centre for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences of Sound” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Jared Leto and Steve Lillywhite.

Personnel:

  • Jared Leto – vocals, guitar, mixing, art direction, design, photography
  • Tomislav Miličević – guitar
  • Solon Bixler – vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizer
  • Matt Watcher – bass
  • Shannon Leto – drums
  • Deepak – vocals
  • Knights of the White Shadow – additional vocals
  • Zhu Zhu – additional vocals
  • Michael Joyce – additional programming
  • Morgan Kibby – additional programming
  • Patrick Nissley – additional programming
  • Jacob Plant – additional programming
  • Cory Enemy – additional programming
  • Jamie Reed Schefman – engineer, mixing
  • Steve Lillywhite – mixing
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing
  • Tony Hoffer – mixing
  • Clay Blair – mixing
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing
  • John Hanes – mixing
  • Delbert Bowers – mixing assistant
  • Chris Galland – mixing assistant
  • Cameron Lister – mixing assistant
  • Dan Gerbarg – mastering
  • Howie Weinberg – mastering
  • Damien Hirst – art direction, design
  • Alexandra Morton – art direction, design
  • Bartholomew Cubbins – photography
  • David Devlin – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Jared Leto, except where noted.

  1. Birth
  2. Conquistador
  3. Up in the Air
  4. City of Angels
  5. The Race
  6. End of All Days
  7. Pyres of Varanasi
  8. Bright Lights
  9. Do or Die
  10. Convergence – Shannon Leto
  11. Northern Lights
  12. Depuis le début

Atlas Genius: Intimate Objects

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On August 28, 2015, “Warner Bros” label released “Inanimate Objects”, the second Atlas Genius studio album. It was recorded 2014 – 2015, in Adelaide, Australia  and  “Studio City” in California, and was produced by Frederik Thaae, Keith Jeffery and Michael Jeffery.

Personnel:

  • Keith Jeffery – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, percussion, programming
  • Michael Jeffery – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Frederik Thaae – guitar, bass, keyboards, drum programming, backing vocals
  • David Larson – keyboards
  • Alan Wilkis – programming, backing vocals
  • Elyse Rogers – backing vocals
  • Carrie Keagan – backing vocals
  • Jonny Kaps – backing vocals
  • Dylan Morgan – engineer assistant
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing
  • Andrew Maury– mixing
  • Mike Duncan – mixing assistant
  • Chris Galland – mixing assistant
  • Ike Schultz – mixing assistant
  • Joe LaPorta – mastering
  • Kii Arens – cover art
  • Donny Phillips – cover art
  • Frank Maddocks – design, photography
  • Big Data – additional production
  • Jesse Shatkin – additional production

Track listing:

All tracks by Keith Jeffery, Michael Jeffery and Frederik Thaae.

  1. The Stone Mill
  2. Molecules
  3. Stockholm
  4. Refugees
  5. A Perfect End
  6. Friendly Apes
  7. Friends with Enemies
  8. Where I Belong
  9. Balladino
  10. The City We Grow
  11. Levitate

Linkin Park: Living Things

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On June 20, 2012, “Warner Bros” label released “Living Things”, the fifth Linkin Park studio album. It was recorded March 2011 – April 2012, at “NRG Recording Studios” in Hollywood, California, and was produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda.

Personnel:

  • Chester Bennington– lead vocals
  • Mike Shinoda– vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, keyboard, piano, synthesizer;  strings, horns, creative director, rap vocals
  • Rob Bourdon– drums, percussions
  • Brad Delson– lead guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, synthesizer,  sampler
  • Dave “Phoenix” Farrell– bass guitar, backing vocals, sampler
  • Joe Hahn– turntables, synthesizer, samples, programming, backing vocals, creative director
  • Owen Pallett– strings
  • Ethan Mates – engineer
  • Andrew Hayes – assistant, engineer, editor
  • Brad Delson – additional production
  • Jerry Johnson – drum technician
  • Ryan DeMarti – production coordination, A&Rcoordination
  • Manny Marroquin– mixing
  • Chris Galland, Del Bowers – mixing assistants
  • Brian Gardner– mastering
  • Brandon Parvini – artwork, creative director
  • The Uprising Creative – art direction, design
  • Frank Maddocks – LP icon design

Track listing:

All lyrics by Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda; all music by Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon, Brad Delson, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell  and Joe Hahn.

  1. Lost in the Echo
  2. In My Remains
  3. Burn it Down
  4. Lies Greed Misery
  5. I’ll Be Gone
  6. Castle of Glass
  7. Victimized
  8. Roads Untraveled
  9. Skin to Bone
  10. Until It Breaks
  11. Tinfoil
  12. Powerless

Haim: Days Are Gone

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On September 27, 2013, “Polydor” label released “Days Are Gone”, the debut Haim studio album. It was recorded in 2013, and was produced by James Ford, Ludwig Göransson, Alana Haim, Danielle Haim, Este Haim and Ariel Rechtshaid.

Personnel:

  • Este Haim – vocals, bass, percussion, production
  • Danielle Haim– vocals, drums, guitar, percussion, production
  • Alana Haim – guitar, keyboards, percussion, piano, production, synthesizer
  • James Ford– guitar, keyboards, percussion,
  • Greg Leisz– pedal steel guitar
  • Ariel Rechtshaid– backing vocals, guitar, mbira, noises, programming, synthesizer, engineering
  • Will Canzoneri – clavinet, Rhodes
  • Jamie Muhoberac– additional keyboards
  • Chris Kasych, David Schiffman, Morgan Stratton, Jimmy Robertson, Martin Cooke – engineer
  • Nicolas Fournier, Bo Hill – engineer assistant
  • Nick Rowe – engineer assistant
  • Heiko Huebschmann, Manny Marroquin, Spike Stent, Rich Costey, Tom Elmhirst– mixing
  • Ben Baptie, Delbert Bowers, Geoff Swan, Dave Emery, Chris Galland – mixing assistant
  • Emily Lazar– mastering
  • Rich Morales – mastering assistant
  • Pierre Auroux, Tom Beard – photography
  • Marek Polewski – design

Track listing:

  1. Falling – Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim, Morgan Nagler
  2. Forever – Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim
  3. The Wire – Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim
  4. If I Could Change Your Mind – Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim, James Ford
  5. Honey & I – Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim
  6. Don’t Save Me – Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim
  7. Days Are Gone – Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim, Jessie Ware, Tom Hult
  8. My Song 5 – Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim, Ariel Rechtshaid
  9. Go Slow – Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim
  10. Let Me Go – Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim
  11. Running If You Call My Name – Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim, Ariel Rechtshaid