Madness (album)
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March 13, 2015 |
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June 2014 - September 2014 |
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38 min 04 s (standard version) |
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Madness is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Sleeping with Sirens . It was released worldwide on March 13, 2015. The album is the band's first work that was not released on Rise , but on Epitaph Records .
It is also the first album with Nick Martin as guitarist , who initially accompanied Jesse Lawson as a session musician after his departure and was later integrated into the band. The standard version of the album includes thirteen tracks, while the deluxe version has two additional tracks.
The album was recorded by John Feldmann in the summer of 2014 and, like its predecessor Feel , which had been released almost two years earlier, reached international chart listings. It was nominated in the category for Album of the Year at the Alternative Press Music Awards .
Backstory
At the beginning of the year, the group and producer Nick Raskulinecz moved into the studio in Nashville , Tennessee, and recorded a total of thirteen pieces for their new album. However, they were later discarded. Still, two songs later were selected as bonus material for the deluxe version of the album.
On May 29, 2014, the American music magazine Alternative Press reported that the musicians had moved into the studio to work on their fourth album. The editor Tyler Sharp referred to a message from the singer Kellin Quinn on Twitter . In August it was announced that the group had not renewed their record deal with Rise Records in order to instead work as an independent band. However, the band announced on November 10th of the same year that they would be accommodated by Epitaph Records . Originally it was planned to release the album on your own. The collaboration with Epitaph Records came about because the musicians felt that the album was too good to be released without a record label behind them.
Publications
On November 10, 2014, when the group announced that they had signed a record deal with Epitaph Records, the main single of the album was released with the song Kick Me . On January 22nd, 2015, Go, Go, Go followed , the second release including a music video together with the official announcement of the album, which is entitled Madness and was due to be released worldwide on March 13th, 2015.
After the album was released, two more singles were released exactly four months later with The Strays on May 9 and Better Off Dead , so that a total of four singles were released. The album itself was released on March 13, 2015.
Track list
| # | title | Composer (s) | length | Remarks |
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| 1. | Kick me | Kellin Quinn , John Feldmann , Nicholas Furlong | 2:31 | 1. Single |
| 2. | Go, go, go | Quinn, Feldmann, Simon Wilcox , Jack Fowler | 2:47 | 2nd single |
| 3. | gold | Quinn, Feldmann, Emily Warren | 3:32 | |
| 4th | Save Me a Spark | Quinn, Feldmann, Wilcox, Joel Madden | 3:39 | |
| 5. | Fly | Quinn, Feldmann | 3:35 | |
| 6th | The Strays | Quinn, Feldmann, Wilcox | 2:58 | 3. Single |
| 7th | Left alone | Quinn, Feldmann, Jacob Hindlin | 3:20 | |
| 8th. | Better Off Dead | Quinn, Feldmann, Furlong | 3:08 | 4. Single |
| 9. | We Like It Loud | Quinn, Feldmann | 2:17 | |
| 10. | heroine | Quinn, Feldmann, Warren | 3:35 | |
| 11. | November | Quinn, Feldmann, Furlong | 3:29 | |
| 12. | Madness | Quinn, Feldmann, Wilcox | 2:42 | |
| 13. | Don't say anything | Quinn, Feldmann, Wilcox | 3:16 | |
| 14th | Parasites | 2:55 | Bonus titles on the deluxe edition | |
| 15th | 2 chord | 4:49 | Bonus titles on the deluxe edition |
promotion
In order to be able to promote the album, the group announced on their Twitter profile on the night of March 10, 2015 that they would like to pre-publish a song from the album for a week.
On November 4, 2015, the band embarked on a co-headlining world tour with Pierce the Veil , which after 70 concerts with stops in the United States and several European countries , including Germany , the United Kingdom , Belgium , the Netherlands and Sweden , whereby the entire European tour was sold out. On April 10, 2015, one day before the end of the world tour with Pierce the Veil, the musicians announced the We Like It Quiet Tour, a short acoustic tour with thirteen concerts in June 2015. The concerts on June 22 and 23, 2015 in Orlando , Florida , of this tour were recorded and released as a live album on April 8, 2016 under the name Live and Unplugged . Between August 11 and 23, 2015, the band played concerts in South America for the first time with stops in Argentina , Brazil , Chile and Mexico ; about a month later the band recorded Australia .
In October and November 2015 the group played with One Ok Rock in the opening act for All Time Low on their Future Hearts Tour , before they could be seen again in Europe in February 2016. However, the group had to forego the services of their bass player Justin Hills at the concerts of the European tour. He had canceled due to serious family problems. The band spent the summer of 2016 on the entire Warped Tour . In August 2016 the band played for the first time on the Pukkelpop and the Lowlands . The group is also playing at the Reading and Leeds Festivals where they are performing for the second time, and for the first time on the main stage.
A few days after the end of the Warped Tour, a tour through the United States was announced for the period from November to December, with State Champs and Tonight Alive in the opening act.
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Commercially
Like its predecessor from 2013, Madness entered the US , British and Australian album charts . In addition, the album debuted in the Netherlands , Belgium ( Flanders ) and Canada for the first time . It could stay longer in the British and Australian charts, but only five weeks in the US charts. According to a report in the Metal by Numbers column on the Metalinsider.net website , the album sold around 80,000 times in the United States alone by August 2015. At the third Alternative Press Music Awards , Madness was nominated for Album of the Year .
The main single Kick Me , which was released on November 10, 2014, reached chart listings in the US genre-related Rock Digital Songs Charts , the Hot Rock Songs Charts and the Billboard Twitter Top Tracks Charts . It received an award in the Song of the Year category at the second Alternative Press Music Awards .
Awards and nominations
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Alternative Press Music Awards
- 2015 : Song of the year for Kick Me ( won )
- 2016 : Album of the year for Madness (nominated)
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Rock Sound Album of the Year 2015
- 25th place
Reviews
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| Metacritic | 74% |
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| Alternative press |
 
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| Kerrang! |
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| Exclaim! |
 
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| FUZE Magazine | Without rating |
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English language reviews
Based on six English-language reviews, Madness received a 74 percent rating on Metacritic . Jason Pettigrew of the American Alternative Press wrote that the group was trying to mix a wide variety of music styles, including pop , post-hardcore and acoustic music. According to Pettigrew, the band had already tried this on Feel . However, according to the critic, the band managed this musical balancing act much better than on the previous album, which is what makes the production by John Feldmann . He describes the song Fly as the best song that Paramore forgot to write for her last album. Also the British Kerrang! gave the album a good rating. Allmusic's James Christopher Monger wrote a good review. The group plays a variant of modern rock music influenced by punk . He compares the singing of Kellin Quinn , which he emphasizes positively, to Jeremy Enigk from Sunny Day Real Estate . According to Monger, the musicians have grown musically and emotionally beyond themselves, with Madness they have released their strongest album to date, even if this is musically based much more on pop music and moves towards the end of hardcore .
The album was discussed less euphorically in the New York Times . John Caramanica wrote that Madness has turned out to be a strong album, but moments of surprise like the song We Like It Loud , which serves aggressive moments with honey, are very rare. The album is compared to the most recent works by Paramore. The lyrics have a deeper meaning, but at times they don't match the energy of the guitar playing, especially that of Jack Fowler . Nevertheless, he describes the lyrics as uninspired at times, emphasizing the pieces Better Off Dead and The Strays , which take up the subject of depression and suicide or growing up and having the feeling of being unloved, as positive examples. The album in the Canadian Exclaim! path. Branan Ranjanathan wrote that the songs Kick Me and Better Off Dead show their musical roots, which lie in post-hardcore, and have energetic riffs as well as a great vocal variety. However, the sound structure falls apart when the band tries to break into other musical realms. The music is geared towards Quinn's singing, which, in contrast to the other critics, he describes as inaudible. Madness shows that the group could create different song structures, but the group screwed up the momentum all along the line.
German-language reviews
Sebastian Berning from Powermetal.de basically wrote a neutral review. He compares the album with the work In Love and Death of The Used . With the opener Kick Me , the band already achieved the highlight of the album. Nevertheless, he highlights other pieces such as Go, Go, Go , Better Off Dead and We Like It Loud , which he thinks have succeeded. He even compares We Like It Loud with The Useds Take It Away , while he describes the song The Strays as quota ballad pop, which could have made it onto a One Direction or Taylor Swift album. In summary, Berning thinks it's a shame that the band has turned more to pop music , especially since the album has places to rock out. He confirmed his opinion expressed at the beginning and described the album as the In Love and Death of the new generation. Stephan Wahle from Ox-Fanzine writes that Pierce the Veil have taken a similar musical direction at times, but still sound more innovative and exciting than Sleeping with Sirens for a long time. Still, according to Wahle, the fact that Sleeping with Sirens may have been overtaken by more interesting genre colleagues will not matter to many people. He predicts that Madness will probably work, but he dared not prophesy a possible success in Europe.
Frank Engelhardt from FUZE Magazine writes that the group on Madness is pulling out the big guns. Above all, producer John Feldmann , who worked with 5 Seconds of Summer and Stick to Your Guns in the past , is praised. In this way he helps the band to keep their soul and still sound as mainstream as possible. He predicts the album will be a commercial success and is of the opinion that the stages in this country will be too small for this band in the near future.
Individual evidence
- ^ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Sleeping With Sirens recording new music
- ↑ Rock Sound : 5 THINGS YOU CAN EXPECT FROM SLEEPING WITH SIRENS 'FOURTH ALBUM
- ↑ a b Matt Crane: Alternative Press : Sleeping With Sirens release new song, "Kick Me"
- ↑ Frank Engelhardt: FUZE Magazine # 52 (Jun / Jul 2015), p. 43: Doing It Hardcore without being a hardcore band : “We actually wanted to bring out the album ourselves. We decided to work with Epitaph because we felt the album was too good to take such a risk. "
- ↑ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Listen to Sleeping With Sirens' latest single from their new album, 'Madness'
- ↑ Matt Crane: Alternative Press : [Watch Sleeping With Sirens Deal with Depression in 'Better Off Dead' Sleeping With Sirens release “The Strays” video]
- ↑ Radio.com : Watch Sleeping With Sirens Deal with Depression in 'Better Off Dead' ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ According to the insert
- ↑ Sleeping with Sirens: Twitter : Sleeping with Sirens on Twitter
- ↑ Tyler Sharp, Matt Crane: Alternative Press : Pierce The Veil, Sleeping With Sirens announce US co-headlining tour with Beartooth, This Wild Life ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and Pierce The Veil, Sleeping With Sirens announce second leg of US tour ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rock Sound : THE PIERCE THE VEIL / SLEEPING WITH SIRENS WORLD TOUR IS COMING TO EUROPE!
- ^ A b Guitar World : Sleeping With Sirens Announce "We Like It Quiet" Acoustic Summer Tour
- ↑ Evan Lucy: Alternative Press (# 334, May 2016), p. 67: “You can certainly hear the intimacy on 'Live and Unplugged', the 11-track, career-spanning set culled from two shows at The Social in Orlando last June. "
- ^ John Bazley: Alternative Press : Sleeping With Sirens announce Latin America tour dates
- ↑ Tom Williams: Music Feeds : Sleeping With Sirens Announce 2015 Australian Tour
- ↑ Kika Chatterjee: Alternative Press : All Time Low announce fall tour with Sleeping With Sirens
- ↑ Dark Lord: Stormbringer.at : SLEEPING WITH SIRENS & MADNESS - coming on a European tour in February and March 2016!
- ↑ Scott Munro: Team Rock : Sleeping With Sirens bassist to miss Euro tour
- ^ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : First 10 bands announced for Warped Tour 2016
- ↑ Janneke Stam: Rock Sound : SLEEPING WITH SIRENS, BIFFY CLYRO, STATE CHAMPS + MORE HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED FOR A FESTIVAL
- ↑ Ali Shutler: Upset Magazine : CHVRCHES, EAGLES OF DEATH METAL AND SUM 41 FOR LOWLANDS 2016 ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Mollie Mansfield: New Musical Express : Asking Alexandria, Sleeping with Sirens and more added to Reading and Leeds 2016 line-up
- ^ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Sleeping With Sirens announce tour with State Champs, Tonight Alive, Waterparks
- ↑ Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ a b Chart tracking album: US - UK , others: AU - BE (V) - NL - CA
- ↑ Bram Teitelman: Metal Insider : Metal by Numbers appendix: 2015's biggest selling metal so far
- ↑ Alternative Press : And the nominees for the 2016 APMAs are ...
- ↑ Chart tracking single: US Rock Digital Songs - US Hot Rock Songs - US Twitter Top Tracks
- ↑ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Here are the winners of the 2015 APMAs! ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Metacritic : Sleeping with Sirens - Madness
- ↑ Jason Pettigrew: Alternative Press : Sleeping with Sirens - Madness Review ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kerrang! (March 2015 edition), p. 52
- ↑ James Christopher Monger: Allmusic : Sleeping with Sirens - Madness review
- ↑ John Caramica: New York Times : Sleeping with Sirens - Madness criticism
- ↑ Branan Ranjanathan: Exclaim! : Sleeping with Sirens - Madness review
- ^ Sebastian Berning: Powermetal.de : Sleeping with Sirens - Madness criticism
- ^ Stephan Wahle: Ox-Fanzine : Sleeping with Sirens - Madness criticism
- ↑ Frank Engelhardt: FUZE Magazine # 52 (Jun / Jul 2015), p. 54: Reviews
