After the Disco
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| Studio album by Broken Bells | ||||
| Released | January 31, 2014 | |||
| Recorded | October 2012 - November 2013 at Mondo Studio and Sonora Recorders (Los Angeles, California) Glenwood Place Studios (Burbank, California) Firehouse Studios (Pasadena, California) |
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| Genre | Indie rock, space rock | |||
| Length | 45:46 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Danger Mouse | |||
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| Metacritic | (72/100) |
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| Alternative Press | |
| NME | 8/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 5.4/10 |
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After the Disco is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Broken Bells. Recorded with the seventeen-piece Angel City String Orchestra and a four-piece choir, the album was released by Columbia Records on January 31, 2014. The album follows the band's 2013 single, "Holding On for Life", which features as the third track on the album. After the Disco was written by band members James Mercer and Brian Burton, and produced by Burton.
The album was primarily recorded by the band at Mondo Studio in Los Angeles, California. The album, which started recording in early 2012, was recorded with a four-piece choir.The album was also recorded at two secondary recording studios, Sonora Recorders, also located in Los Angeles, and Firehouse Studios, located in Pasadena, California.
Orchestral and string recordings were conducted at the Glenwood Place Studios, located in Burbank, California, with The Angel City String Orchestra. With an arrangement of eleven violins, three cellos and three violas, conducted by Daniele Luppi, the orchestra recorded music for "Leave It Alone", "The Changing Lights", "Lazy Wonderland", "The Angel and the Fool" and "The Remains of Rock and Roll". Additional musicians, respectively playing tenor saxophone, trombone and trumpet, were also recorded for the ninth track "No Matter What You're Told".
The album cover for After the Disco, designed by Jacob Escobedo, was originally sketched by Escobedo during the early stages of the creative process for After the Disco. The initial sketches of the artwork, which reflects Psychedelic themes of the 1960s and 70s and synthetic Space art, originally inspired Mercer and Burton to take on elements of Retro-futurism in their work, which led to the band recording the album with instruments from the 60s/70s time period. James Mercer stated to Australian radio station Triple J:
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