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Changing Tune is the third studio album and major label debut by English rock band Lower Than Atlantis. Preceded by the non-album single "If the World Was to End", the band went on their first ever headlining tour in the UK in January 2012.

Lower Than Atlantis released "If the World Was to End" as a single in January 2012. The song was produced by John Mitchell, who bassist Dec Hart and drummer Eddy Thrower had known for longer than the rest of the band. Discussing the song, vocalist/guitarist Mike Duce said he has a "'Truman Show' style theory that this world isn't real, and everyone's in on it except me." The song is about that theory placed with the setting of an "end of the world scenario". Following this, they went on their first headline tour in the UK in the same month with support acts Sights and Sounds and Marines. On the final night of the tour, 27 January, the band announced they had signed to Island. Island's promise of more income is what convinced the band sign with the label. Duce revealed that despite the increase of income "Nothing's really changed" for the band except for "the financial backing that we didn't have before". Everything the band has done previously was with their own money. The band supported Young Guns in Europe in February and March.

Island suggested to that the band went into pre-production with a producer. The band were against this idea as they claimed that no one else knows how they should sound apart from themselves. The group rented out a room for a week and guitarist Ben Sansom brought in his computer, which the band recorded into live.Changing Tune was recorded in early 2012 at Rockfield Studios with Mitchell and Ben Humphreys producing. Humphreys and Josh Tyrell helped with recording and engineering. Rockfield Studios was a residential studio, which the band preferred as they had previously needed to drive. Duce revealed that their previous releases were "rushed, on a shoestring budget and against the clock." The drum tracks were recorded in "two and half days... three days", according to Thrower. With Changing Tune, the group had the time and equipment to use to their advantage. The band were able to work at any time of their choosing, whereas on previous occasions, the group had to work between 10 and 6. Sansom said that the album combines the sounds of Far Q (2010) and World Record (2011) – the latter of which Sansom thought the band "only covered a small ground" with the pop-rock songs found on it.

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