Young Modern
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| Young Modern | ||
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| Studio album by Silverchair | ||
| Released | March 31, 2007 (Australian Release)July 2007  (United States Release) |
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| Recorded | 2006 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Label | Eleven Records | |
| Producer(s) | Daniel Johns Nick Launay |
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| Silverchair chronology | ||
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| Diorama (2002) |
Young Modern (2007) |
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| Singles from Young Modern | ||
| 1. ""Straight Lines"" (March 10, 2007) | ||
Young Modern is the fifth album by the Australian band Silverchair, to be released on March 31, 2007. It was the first album to ever go to chart as number one on iTunes by pre-order[1].
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[edit] Recording and Production
The band announced in 2005 that they had plans to record a new album in 2006. Work on Young Modern then began in 2006. During 2006, the band played a limited number of shows to test the new material on live audiences. The album was rumoured to be a solo double album by Daniel Johns, who had already written enough songs to fill two albums. These rumours have since been denied by Johns in the April 2006 issue of Rolling Stone[2].
Following the brief tour with his project group The Dissociatives, Daniel Johns made plans to release a solo album. While writing and recording home demos of the new songs, he decided that the works would better suit a group effort than a solo release. After reuniting with Joannou and Gillies, Silverchair then spent five weeks in the Australian Hunter Valley in late 2005 to practice and sharpen Johns' new material. Following this, the band recorded intermediate full band demo versions of the songs. To record the final versions of these songs, the band traveled to Los Angeles to record with record producer Nick Launay at Seedy Underbelly Studios. Johns has remained the co-producer of the album. During the L.A. sessions, additional songs were written and recorded. Van Dyke Parks was hired to compose orchestral arrangements for three songs: If You Keep Losing Sleep, All Across The World and the 3 part epic Those Thieving Birds/Strange Behaviour. Johns and Parks traveled to Prague to have the orchestral arrangements recorded by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
The album will feature various guest appearances from other Australian (and possibly international) musicians such as Luke Steele, Julian Hamilton and Paul Mac (who previously collaborated with Johns in The Dissociatives and enlisted both Joannou and Gillies for his solo album 3000 Feet High).
Mixing the album resumed in January 2007. The band announced on their website that they are waiting for their mixer, David Botrill, to become available to finish the process.
The album is slated for release on March 31, 2007; the first confirmed single "Straight Lines" made its radio and Internet debut on February 2, 2007.[3]
[edit] Singles
"Straight Lines", the first single from the record made its debut on the band's official site at Midday on February 2, 2007. The song's video clip was filmed at Sydney's Olympic Park train station in November 2006 by AFI award winning Australian filmmakers Paul Goldman and Alice Bell and features the band on a makeshift stage playing the song for a small audience of forty fans[4]. The fans were selected by a competition held by the band prior to shooting the clip. Goldman has previously directed film clips for various musical artists such as Elvis Costello, Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave. Following this, the band held a special competition featuring fan directed videos for "Straight Lines", where entrants could use elements provided by the band to piece together a music video to be promoted on the band's MySpace.
[edit] Track listing
On February 26, the track listing for Young Modern was published on Silverchair's official site.
- Young Modern Station
- Straight Lines
- If You Keep Losing Sleep*
- Reflections of a Sound
- Those Thieving Birds (Part 1)/Strange Behaviour/Those Thieving Birds (Part 2)*
- The Man That Knew Too Much
- Waiting All Day
- Mindreader
- Low
- Insomnia
- All Across the World*
- English Garden (featuring Judith Durham) (iTunes Australia only)
- Limited Bonus DVD / iTunes Australia pre-order tracks
- Making of Young Modern
- "Straight Lines" (video)
* Includes orchestral arrangements by Van Dyke Parks.
[edit] B-sides, Outtakes, Demos
- Sleep All Day (Demo from "Straight Lines" single)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Silverchair#1 on iTunes!!
- ^ Rolling Stone Article
- ^ Chairpage splash page notes a countdown of Days, Hours, Minutes and Seconds until Young Modern's release.
- ^ Sydney's on the filming of "Straight Lines"
