Audio Lessonover?
| Audio Lessonover? | ||||
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| Studio album by Delirious? | ||||
| Released | 6 August 2001 | |||
| Genre | Rock, Christian Rock | |||
| Length | 62:06 | |||
| Label | Furious? | |||
| Producer | Chuck Zwicky | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Cross Rhythms |   |
| Jesus Freak Hideout |    |
| Q Magazine | |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | mixed |
Audio Lessonover? is the fourth studio album by the Christian rock band Delirious?, released in August 2001. It gathered considerably less critical acclaim than previous Delirious? albums, both musically and in its lack of overtly Christian lyrics. The sole single released from the album, Waiting for the Summer, reached number 26 in the UK Singles Charts; "Take Me Away", originally planned to be the second single, was released to MP3.com as a free download.
Following the more experimental music of Mezzamorphis and Glo, Delirious aimed for a "stripped-down" pop sound on their new album, influenced by, among others, Coldplay, Radiohead, and the Manic Street Preachers. Many of the songs were recorded semi-live in the studio, giving the album a raw feel.
Chuck Zwicky (former engineer for Prince and Semisonic) was brought in to oversee production of the album. According to Stu G, Zwicky was very influential in the recording of the album: "From our beginning we’ve really had a hands-on approach to the production. And we asked him to really take that on. So he did make a difference to the way we recorded the stuff and to really get a strip-down, more live performance. And that was really good to be pushed that way, and he pushed us really hard." The band also credit him with creating a retro sound: "we walked into the studio and Tim [Jupp] started to set up, and Charles said (rather less politely) ‘Put them away, I'm not having that rubbish in my studio.' Instead, he got Tim to play analogue synths and Fender Rhodes through guitar pedals, and rather than relying on MIDI to do everything Tim was twisting knobs and creating audio canvasses that were absolutely incredible."
The album's lyrical content differs somewhat from previous albums, including several love songs. Martin Smith said of the first single, "Waiting for the Summer", "The song came about because we were travelling to Brighton everyday and in usual style it was raining... We thought we'd write a song about waiting for the summer because we used to say to each other, 'I can't wait for summer'. It's a love song about being with my lady in summer, laughing and dancing around." Another track, "There is an Angel", was written by Smith about "waking up one night and seeing my wife asleep in bed next to me and just thinking, God, I could mess this up if I'm not careful. She's the angel you've put in my life and I need to protect what you've given me." Smith has said that the song is his all-time favourite.
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