Everything in Transit
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| Studio album by Jack's Mannequin | ||||
| Released | August 23, 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 4th Street Recording, Santa Monica, California | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, piano rock | |||
| Length | 45:33 | |||
| Label | Maverick | |||
| Producer | Andrew McMahon, Jim Wirt | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AbsolutePunk (2005) | (95%) |
| AbsolutePunk (2015) | 10/10 |
| AllMusic |   |
| IGN | 7.2/10 |
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Everything in Transit is the debut studio album by American rock band Jack's Mannequin, released on August 23, 2005, by Maverick Records. Andrew McMahon wrote most of the lyrics during his first summer outside of his band Something Corporate. McMahon spent almost all of his savings on recording the album before Maverick Records picked him up. The album was produced by both McMahon and Jim Wirt.
According to Kaj Roth of Melodic, Everything in Transit is a concept album, which deals with Andrew McMahon's "alienating return to the hometown he left to pursue his music, and the dissolution of a long, meaningful relationship because of it." The songs were written during his first summer in years outside of Something Corporate, which McMahon spent scribbling lyrics accompanied by drawings into a private sketchbook, selected pages of which can be accessed through a web-link to a secret homepage on the enhanced CD portion of the album. The song meanings are at times more cryptic than one might be used to from McMahon's Something Corporate songs, as the lyrics describe a more personal view on feelings and situations and all take advantage of a first person's narrative style.
The project took almost two years from the first songs being written and recorded to the final product hitting the music store shelves. McMahon spent more than $40,000 of his own savings on the production, before being picked up by Maverick Records.
McMahon has stated "Bruised" to be his favorite song on the record. Bruised is also featured on the compilation Punk Goes Acoustic 2.
When first written, the song "La La Lie" was originally titled "West Coast Winter" and featured a different chorus. The original demo was released in late 2006 on the band's website. Part of its lyrics had since been adapted in "The Lights and Buzz".
"Dark Blue" was the last song recorded for the CD. It is about the months McMahon and his fiancée (now wife) spent separated from one another. The song title is in reference to a blue lightbulb used in the bedroom he shared with her in their Arizona home. The Something Corporate song "She Paints Me Blue" is taken from the same idea.
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