Anthem (Less Than Jake album)
| Anthem | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||
| Studio album by Less Than Jake | ||||
| Released | May 20, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | Piety Street Recording in New Orleans, Morning View Studios in Malibu | |||
| Genre | Ska punk, punk rock, pop punk | |||
| Length | 43:52 | |||
| Label | Sire | |||
| Producer | Rob Cavallo | |||
| Less Than Jake chronology | ||||
|
||||
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (71/100) |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Alternative Press | |
| Blender | |
| Playlouder | |
| Q |  |
| Rolling Stone | |
Anthem is the fifth studio album by American ska punk band Less Than Jake, released on May 20, 2003 on Sire Records. Produced by Rob Cavallo, the album was preceded by the single "She's Gonna Break Soon", and was the band's most commercially successful album to date, reaching number 45 on the Billboard 200.
During the recording sessions, the band worked on a second, self-produced album of additional tracks each night after Cavallo left the studio. This was subsequently released the following year under the name B Is for B-sides.
Recording took place between October and December 2002 at Piety Street Recording in New Orleans and Morning View Studio in Malibu, California, with producer Rob Cavallo.
The album includes a re-recorded version of "Look What Happened" from the band's previous album, Borders & Boundaries, which omits the horn-driven bridge between the intro and first verse. Still another form of the song exists, used on the Grind soundtrack, omitting all horn section. The band continues to play the original version live.
The title of the album directly comes from a lyric in the song "Screws Fall Out", but also from its use among the band to describe a powerful song that the band can rally behind, similar to "My Very Own Flag" and "Gainesville Rock City" from Pezcore and Borders & Boundaries respectively. Bassist, Roger Manganelli, often jokes that the title was selected by the band writing down every single word in the English language, crossing out words until "Anthem" was the only one left uncrossed.
A radio edit of "She's Gonna Break Soon" without horns was released as a single on April 15, 2003. It was released on May 20, 2003 on Sire, an imprint of Warner Bros. Records. From June to August, the group went on the 2003 edition of Warped Tour. "The Science of Selling Yourself Short" was released as a single on July 1, and released to radio a week later.
...
Wikipedia