Flashlights (album)
Flashlights is the third record by the Atlanta-based independent rock band Y-O-U. The album was first made available via free download on the band's MySpace profile on New Year's Day, 2007, and on compact disc on January 23 of the same year.
| Flashlights | ||||
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| Released | January 1, 2007 (online) January 23, 2007 (CD) | |||
| Recorded | May 2006 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Label | Pleaserock (independent) | |||
| Producer | Geoff Melkonian, Y-O-U | |||
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According to the band's official MySpace profile, Flashlights was the exclusive theme music of the Phillips Lounge at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Track listing
- "The Physics of Giving (Einstein Song)" - 4:23
- "Goodnight Goes" - 8:32
- "Medicine Man" - 3:45
- "Moviekiss" (new version) - 3:43
- "...Now Everyone Knows..." (an extended ending of "Moviekiss") - 1:39
- "Glad" - 1:03
- "I Found You" - 2:12
- "Break" - 5:11
- "Alright, Alright, Alright" - 2:27
- "All Arranged #7" (a different version of "All Arranged #2" from Everything is Shifting) - 4:30
- "Second Chance" - 3:43
- "Let It Go" - 3:05
- "Glad I Found You. Again." - 0:40
- "Effort" - 5:46
Music videos
"The Physics of Giving"
- Dir: Ryan Sterritt (Homestar Runner technician)
- Sign language: Y-O-U
"Moviekiss"
- Dir: Adam Stills
- Video is composed of kiss scenes from movies.
- One video uses album version; an alternate similar video uses a live performance track.
"Break"
- Dir: Tyler James
- Feat: Clay Cook
- Song is a live performance, not the album version.
- Filmed in stop-motion animation.
Personnel
Y-O-U is
- Nicholas Niespodziani
- Peter Olson
- ?Mark Cobb
Additional musicians
- Clay Cook - Guitar, organ, Rhodes, pedal steel, banjo, backing vocals
- Mark Bencuya - Piano, Wurlitzer, ARP strings
- Dog Stevens (Cobb) - Typewriter
- Saul Pimon (Olson) - Indian flute
- Lenny Koggins (Niespodziani) - Recorders
Technical
- Producer: Geoff Melkonian and Y-O-U
- Additional production: Kristofer Sampson and Cliff Byrd
- Engineer: Kristofer Sampson
- Additional engineering: Clay Cook, Peter Olson, Nicholas Niespodziani
- Mixer: David Barbe
- Mastered by: Alex Lowe
- Art Design & Photography: Theodore Schuyler
References
- Atlanta Music Guide recent news (Google cached copy)
- Deadjournalist interview with Nick Niespodziani
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