The Best in Town
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| Studio album by The Blackout | ||||
| Released | 25 May 2009 | |||
| Recorded | Sonic Ranch Studios, Alameda, Texas | |||
| Genre | Post-hardcore, hard rock | |||
| Length | 34:18 | |||
| Label | Epitaph | |||
| Producer | Jason Perry | |||
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| Metacritic | 54/100 |
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| DIY | 8/10 |
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The Best in Town is the second album to by Welsh post-hardcore band The Blackout. The album was released on 25 May 2009 in Europe, and 23 June 2009 in the USA. The track listing for the entire album was released by the band via their Myspace blog.
"ShutTheFuckUppercut" was first played on BBC Radio 1, where it was announced it would be released as a free download in April. This free download was actually offered for less than a week from 26 March but was released as a digital single from 30 March. "Children of the Night" was the album's lead single, and was played for the first time on Radio 1 on 13 April 2009. The music video was released on Wednesday 15 April on MTV's website. The studio recording features vocals from the Year 6 class of Herolgerrig Primary School, Merthyr Tydfil, where the band is from.
The video for "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things (I Don't Care)" was recorded at the Islington o2 Academy on 5 September 2009. The video features Josh Franceschi of You Me At Six, as well as members of Kids In Glass Houses and Young Guns.
The title for the song "I Love Myself And I Wanna Live" is a play on the title of the Nirvana song "I Hate Myself and Want to Die". The song "Save Our Selves" came about the Blackout had an untitled song for the untitled new album in 2008. They were not happy with the way it sounded, but Producer Jason Perry thought it resembled a song of his own, which he had written with friend and former band mate Dan P Carter, and were going to give to another band that they were both working with. Both song ideas were put together to produce "Save Our Selves (The Warning)", which ended up being the band's most commercial single from the album. The band that was originally going to use the one version of the song have since tried to blacken The Blackouts name, but it was never their song to use in the first place, and had been threatened with legal action to stop their own plagiarism.
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