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      • monster" target="_blank">Monster monster" target="_blank">Monster is the second album by American rock band The Almost, released on November 3, 2009.


      Background


      The Almost released their debut album, Southern Weather in 2007. On November 9, 2008, it was announced that the band had parted ways with drummer Kenny Bozich. Later that month, the band released a holiday-themed EP, No Gift to Bring.


      Recording


      On April 29, 2009, the band arrived at Dark Horse Recording studio in Franklin, Tennessee. The recording process was documented with tweets, a live Stickam stream, and blogs. Like the band's debut Southern Weather, monster" target="_blank">Monster monster" target="_blank">Monster was produced by Aaron Sprinkle. Due to the band's lack of a drummer at the time, lead singer Aaron Gillespie played drums for the record. After the recording and mastering of the record, Gillespie stated, "This now feels like a real band. Everyone gave up a piece of his own agenda for the good of the final result. And that's how you end up with something special. They supplied the bricks and we built this house together." On May 7, a studio update was posted online, followed by another on May 26.


      Release


      The first single from the album is "Hands" and it was released onto radio stations October 2, 2009, and it has cracked the Top 5 on the Christian Rock charts. When speaking of touring, Gillespie noted that "[The Almost] plan on hitting it as hard as we can." Vilardi concurred with "We'd like to leave and not come back for two years." In October and November, the group supported the Used on their headlining US tour. On November 23, 2009, a music video was released for "Lonely Wheel". In February and March 2010, the band performed at Soundwave festival in Australia. The third track on the album, "No I Don't," debuted on the Christian Rock chart on March 5.


      Track listing




      Personnel


      The Almost

      Aaron Gillespie – lead vocals, percussion, rhythm guitar, banjo, keyboards, piano
      Jay Vilardi – guitar
      Dusty Redmon – guitar
      Alex Aponte – bass
      Joe Musten - drums
      Additional musicians

      John Davis - steel guitar
      Chris Scruggs - steel guitar
      Josiah Holland - keyboards
      Production

      Aaron Sprinkle - producer, guitar, vocals, keyboards
      Zach Blackstone - assistant
      Jordan Butcher - art direction, design
      Mike Carr - assistant engineer
      Matt Carter (Emery) - mixing
      Roberto Chamorro - photography
      Brandon Ebel - A&R, executive producer
      Ted Jensen - mastering
      Brian Kroll - A&R
      Ethan Luck - photography
      J.R. McNeely - mixing
      Randy Nichols - management
      Dave Powell (Emery) - drum technician
      Melissa Sabo - assistant
      Rob "Just Fine" Stevenson - A&R
      Matt Watts - assistant


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      monster" target="_blank">Monster EP was released on October 6, 2009, one month before the launch of monster" target="_blank">Monster monster" target="_blank">Monster. It was sold exclusively through retail store Hot Topic, the band's website and a tour supporting monster" target="_blank">Monster monster" target="_blank">Monster.

      The song "Hands" is the first single, which will include a music video, from monster" target="_blank">Monster monster" target="_blank">Monster and the EP to be released to radio stations. The EP packaging is a double-disc digipak, one of the discs contain the music and the other contains no data at all, but depicts the artwork that monster" target="_blank">Monster monster" target="_blank">Monster will have on the disc's label along with lyrics and printed track listing.


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