Of Men and Angels
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| Studio album by The Rocket Summer | ||||
| Released | February 23, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | March–August 2009 at: Ocean Studios (Burbank, CA, United States) Pedernales Studios (Austin, TX, United States) |
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| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 55:15 | |||
| Label | Island Def Jam | |||
| Producer | Bryce Avary, CJ Eriksson | |||
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Of Men and Angels is the fourth full-length studio album by American pop rock artist The Rocket Summer, and was released on February 23, 2010. The album debuted at No. 1 on iTunes, surpassing The Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. which had previously held the #1 spot for Top Album. Three songs on the album were initially featured on the 2009 extended play, You Gotta Believe. Leading up to the album debut, The Rocket Summer released the entire album for preview on The Rocket Summer MySpace on February 15, 2010, just eight days prior to the in-store release.
The Rocket Summer recorded the new album at Ocean Studios in Burbank, CA, from February to April 2009, with the band undertaking mixing with Neal Avron in May 2009. Frontman Bryce Avary played all of the instruments on the record and produced the album with CJ Eiriksson.
Avary recorded the album in Ocean Studios in Burbank, CA, from February to April 2009, and later wrote and recorded new songs in Austin, TX, while waiting for industry issues to clear. In creating the record, Avary intended "to keep the record as organic as possible." As a result, Avary minimized the chopping of the drums, did not use Autotune on the vocals, and featured longer takes on the guitar. Avary additionally mixed some of the tracks with Neal Avron, and produced the album with CJ Eiriksson.
The album's title and title track Of Men and Angels comes from the Bible verse 1 Corinthians 13: "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal" (NIV). The title track, on which the album is based, is consequently what Avary considers to be "spiritually charged," despite the self-made distinction of not being a solely "Christian" band when it comes to categorizing The Rocket Summer's music.
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