Burn Burn | ||||
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Studio album by Our Lady Peace | ||||
Released | July 21, 2009 | |||
Recorded | February 2007 – June 2009 Los Angeles, California, US |
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Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length |
38:03 44:54 (Deluxe edition) |
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Label | Coalition Entertainment | |||
Producer | Raine Maida | |||
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Singles from Burn Burn | ||||
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Metacritic | 65/100 |
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Boston Globe | (positive) |
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Burn Burn is the seventh studio album by Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace, released in North America on July 21, 2009. The album's title is based on a quote by Jack Kerouac from his 1957 novel On the Road.
The album, recorded at vocalist Raine Maida's home studio in Los Angeles between 2007 and 2009, was released independent of any major label under the band's longtime management company Coalition Entertainment. Sony Music (the band's previous label) distributed the album in Canada, and WMG's Independent Label Group did so in the United States.
Burn Burn is Our Lady Peace's first album not to have involved collaboration with an outside producer, having instead been produced by band vocalist Raine Maida. The album's release marked the longest gap between Our Lady Peace studio albums to date, with their previous album, Healthy in Paranoid Times, having been released in August 2005. At 38 minutes, Burn Burn is also their shortest album.
Production on Burn Burn began in February 2007, several months before the release of bandleader Raine Maida's solo album The Hunter's Lullaby. According to Maida, Burn Burn is a "proper rock album"—featuring a return to the raw originality of the band's first album Naveed, though a "little more mature".
Maida produced the album himself, noting how he was excited to "not have anybody intrude on sessions". The band had previously worked with producer Bob Rock for their two preceding albums, as well as Arnold Lanni for their first four albums.