No Subject (Come with Me)
| Cartel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||
| Studio album by Cartel | ||||
| Released | August 21, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | May–June 2007 | |||
| Genre | Power pop | |||
| Length | 52:55 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Producer |
|
|||
| Cartel chronology | ||||
|
||||
| Singles from Cartel | ||||
|
||||
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| Melodic |
|
| Punknews.org |  |
Cartel is the second studio album American rock band Cartel. It released in stores on August 21, 2007 despite being announced by the band's lead singer as coming out on July 24, 2007. It was officially completed at sometime around 8:00 p.m. on June 10, 2007 and features "Lose It" as the first single.
Prior to the release of their debut album, Cartel were attracting major label attention. In September 2005, Chroma was released through independent label The Militia Group. Within a year, the group signed to major label Epic, and their debut album had sold over 100,000 copies. Sometime in 2006, Mediaedge:cia and True Entertainment contacted Dr Pepper with the concept of placing a band inside a bubble to record an album. In January 2007, Dr Pepper approached the band asking if they would like to participate.
Around this time, a radio campaign was set up for potential second single "Say Anything (Else)". The group's label, however, said "We gotta do this (the bubble)." They went on further to explain, "If we take this momentum now and then dump a new record on top of it, we could probably blow it out." Vocalist/guitarist Will Pugh pondered "the timing [with a second single] wasn't going to work out with the bubble. ... But they screwed the pooch with that record. Like, how could we not work more than one single? This is insane."
On May 24, 2007, Cartel entered a giant glass bubble at Hudson River Park in New York. The bubble featured a modern recording studio, as well as a living area. On June 12, the group left the bubble and performed a 45-minute set outside it. This event, dubbed Band in a Bubble, lasted for 20 days and was filmed in its entirety. The band's progress was viewable via a four-episode series that aired on MTV, also called Band in a Bubble. The event was live streamed through a website via the use of 23 webcams. At the time, Pugh called the experience "the best thing to ever happen to us. A platform this big can show the world that real bands still exist. There's no outside producer, no hidden magic, just us writing and recording. It beats the heck out of being in college." However, he later admitted that the event was a marketing stunt.
...
Wikipedia