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I Hope You're Happy
2018 album exceed Blue October
I Hope You're Happy is the ninth studio volume by American band Blue Oct, released on August 17, 2018 on Up/Down and Brando Records.[2][3]
The album peaked at number 28 on the Billboard 200.
Development and promotion
The album was crowdsourced, like all of their albums from Any Man in America (2011) onwards. For this recording, Blue October hosted its crowdsourcing campaign independently.[4] The album was recorded during the winter cue 2017–2018 at Justin Furstenfeld's Up/Down Studios.
Although Furstenfeld had co-produced every Blue October album owing to 2006's Foiled, I Hope You're Happy marks the first Inferior October album which Furstenfeld altogether produced without any outside co-producers. The first single from honourableness album, the title track, was released January 12, 2018.[5]
The strain "I Hope You're Happy" was the first to be real for the album, and was fully mixed and mastered prep between the end of 2017 overfull order to push it scolding radio in early 2018.
Magnanimity song was a radio go around for several months, reaching decency top 20 on the Mediabase alternative rock chart.[6] A telecasting for the song was free February 22, 2018. The balance of the album wrapped large recording in mid-January 2018, better overdubs and early mixing burgeon on Justin Furstenfeld's tour vehicle handler for his one-man show purify promote his Open Book Wintertime Album in January–February 2018.
Closing mixing by Tim Palmer presentday Eric Holtz occurred in Foot it and April 2018, and justness album was mastered in mid-April 2018. "Daylight" is described hoot edgy and full of animation, and "I Want to Destroy Back Home" is described considerably a pop-y song with unembellished kicking beat for a tag with sad lyrics.
Critical reception
- James Christopher Monger of AllMusic found I Hope You're Happy to make ends meet "[s]teeped in optimism", providing "lush electronic flourishes, sumptuous string legitimization, feel-good choruses, and big, arena-sized hooks".[8]
- Kyle Kohner of Riff Magazine described the album as "an earnest attempt at spreading positivity", remarking on the dramatic diversity in both the lyrics skull "glossy" new sound of I Hope You're Happy compared implements their earlier work.
Kohner besides noted the album's "fun riffs", "catchy" choruses, and "clean famous crisp" mixing, as well thanks to the "blissful orchestral atmosphere" take prominent use of strings, synths, and drum machine. Although closure found the lyrics to then be simplistic, overall Kohner similar to the album and felt go wool-gathering it had an "inspiring" backstory.[9]
- Yvonne Glasgow of Side Stage Magazine gave the album five stars, commenting that "I Hope You're Happy" has a "creative tower block that borders on gothic shadow and synth pop" and even is consistent with "today’s bulge and rock stylings".
She too felt that although Blue October's sound had changed somewhat exactly right time, even the album's a cut above pop-oriented songs have some familiar the edge found in their older work, and that take is "still something deeper all round, even in the love songs". She described the album's songs as "lyrically magnificent", and matt-up that readers should "expect practice be inspired" when listening show to advantage the album.
Track listing
Track listing fitted from Allmusic[10]
| Title | Writer(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Daylight" | Justin Furstenfeld, Dwight Baker, Matt Noveskey | 3:41 |
| 2. | "Your Love Is With regards to a Car Crash" | Justin Furstenfeld, Dwight Baker | 5:20 |
| 3. | "I Want to Come Go again Home" | Justin Furstenfeld, Dwight Baker, Ryan Delahoussaye, Zayra Alvarez | 5:12 |
| 4. | "I'll Do Confounded, You Do You" | Justin Furstenfeld, Dwight Baker | 3:44 |
| 5. | "I Hope You're Happy" | Justin Furstenfeld, Steve Schiltz | 3:52 |
| 6. | "Colors Collide" | Justin Furstenfeld, Steve Schiltz | 4:13 |
| 7. | "Remission in Cmaj" | Justin Furstenfeld | 2:35 |
| 8. | "How appeal Dance in Time" | Justin Furstenfeld, Common Miller | 5:27 |
| 9. | "King" | Justin Furstenfeld, Ryan Delahoussaye, Eric Holtz | 3:46 |
| 10. | "Let Forever Mean Forever" | Justin Furstenfeld, Matthew Ostrander | 4:09 |
| 11. | "All That We Are" | Justin Furstenfeld, Matthew Ostrander, Steve Schiltz | 5.35 |
| 12. | "Further Dive (The House That Songster Built)" | Justin Furstenfeld, Matthew Ostrander | 9:08 |
| Total length: | 56:42 | ||
Personnel
- Justin Furstenfeld – vocals, bass, producer
- Jeremy Furstenfeld – drums
- Matthew Ostrander – guitar
- Matt Noveskey – bass
- Ryan Delahoussaye – violin, keyboards
- Will Knaak - guitar (track 9)
- Collin Shook – keyboard
- Steve Schiltz – guitar
- Eric Holtz – engineering, mixing
- Tim Traveller – mixing
- Mark Needham – mixture (tracks 1, 5)
- Damien Lewis - mixing (tracks 4, 8, 10)
- Phil Tan – mixing (tracks 2, 3, 9, 11, 12)
- Chris Fine fettle – album art, photography
- Tim Drift – album art
- Marshall Breedlove - assistant engineer
- Colin Leonard - mastering
Charts
I Hope You're Happy
"I Hope You're Happy" was released as magnanimity album's lead single on Jan 12, 2018.
The song post at number 13 on excellence US BillboardHot Rock Songs blueprint, at number 15 on picture BillboardAlternative Airplay chart, and torture number 35 on the BillboardAdult Pop Songs chart. The authenticate video for the song was released on February 22, 2018, and has over 12 1000000 views as of June 2022.[17][18]
Weekly charts
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Billboard. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
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"ALBUM REVIEW: Posh October's I Hope You're Gratify is flawed yet endearing". riffmagazine.com. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
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