Here Come the Drums
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| Studio album by Rogue Traders | ||||
| Released | 23 October 2005 | |||
| Recorded | Twang Vicarage, 2005 | |||
| Genre | Electronic rock, dance-pop, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 44:45 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | James Ash | |||
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Here Come the Drums is the second studio album by Australian band Rogue Traders, released in Australia on 23 October 2005 by Columbia Records. The album features the Rogue Traders with the new and then vocalist Natalie Bassingthwaighte and has a genre of dance pop songs — mainly written by Jamie Appleby, Steven Davis, Melinda Appleby. Here Come the Drums debuted in the top ten on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart, and sales were considerably higher than those of the Rogue Traders's debut album, We Know What You're Up To (2003).
Four singles were released from the album, all of which peaked within the top 20. "Voodoo Child", the most successful song from the album peaked in the top ten in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Other singles includes "Way to Go!", "Watching You", and "We're Coming Home". "In Love Again" was later released exclusively as a radio single. The commercial success of the album led to the We're Coming Home National Tour in 2006 and nominations for seven ARIA Awards, although it did not win any.
The album was two years in the making, is self-produced and self-written and is the album that the band were just finding out what music genre they were. The making of the album started in October 2003 when the band won an ARIA Award for "Best Dance Release" with their remix of the INXS song "Need You Tonight". Band members James Ash and Steve Davis were happy with the acknowledgment, but they both secretly wondered if they would ever get such success again, so at that moment they decided that they were going to be known for their own material. The album, unlike their first album, includes live instrumentation; live drums, live guitars and bass, performed by the same players who played live with that band. Ash stated that "We were at a point where we felt that we had gone as far as we could go with conventional dance music. And we wanted to have a sound that broke out of it. At that time dance music was taking itself very seriously and the music that we'd really been enjoying for the past couple of years had been rock acts. They had loads of energy, but they also had amazing production and really big melodies and the musical depth that I was after".
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