The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating
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| Studio album by The Living End | ||||
| Released | 22 July 2011 (Australia, USA, Canada, Mexico, Japan) | |||
| Recorded | Red Door Sounds in Melbourne, 301 Studios in Byron Bay (late 2010–May 2011) | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 40:09 | |||
| Label | Dew Process | |||
| Producer | Nick DiDia | |||
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The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating is the ARIA Award-winning sixth album by Australian rock band The Living End, released on 22 July 2011 on Dew Process. The album was produced by Nick DiDia.
In early 2010, Chris Cheney went to New York for three months to begin writing songs for the album. While in New York, he met up with The Hold Steady singer Craig Finn, whom he met through John Agnello who had produced the band's previous album, White Noise. With Finn, he cowrote the song "The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating". Cheney said that for the new album he "wanted to meet different people and gather some fresh resources and influences to hopefully take my writing and add a different element".
Later in the year, the band regrouped to begin rehearsals in a South Melbourne recording studio. The band performed as The Safety Matches to road test new material. Cheney said that they had performed "a week's worth of gigs playing only new songs to see which ones would sink or swim" and that they had recorded fewer studio demos than for previous albums. They then went into the studio to record the album. They spent four or five weeks in Byron Bay and a further two to three weeks recording in Melbourne.
Cheney said that the album took "like a year and a half of writing" and that they always seem to "go through 30-40 songs" in rehearsal. He said that during writing the album they had "amassed something in the vicinity of 40-plus songs to choose from". During the writing stage he said he would be "working on 30 songs at the same time." When asked in a live webchat on what was different about this album, he replied, "I believe that there was a sense of not being able to top what we achieved with White Noise, so I was determined we'd create the best songs we've written. We ended up with more songs and at the end of it we went through every tune and picked the best ones that fit together."
Scott Owen has said that for the album they "have taken a lot of inspiration from U2 and INXS, particularly the ‘dancey’ rock stuff. Rage Against the Machine as well. Something that those three bands share is the ability to get on a groove and stay on it, letting it pulsate and grow in a tribal sort of way, making it quite transfixing without changing the basic formula of each song."
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