Ursa Minor (album)
| Ursa Minor | ||||
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| Studio album by Third Eye Blind | ||||
| Released | String Module Error: Match not found | |||
| Recorded | 2004-2011 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Producer | Stephan Jenkins | |||
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Ursa Minor is an unreleased studio album by American alternative rock band Third Eye Blind. Initially conceived as the second part of a double album to their 2009 release Ursa Major, the album was delayed, and eventually shelved, due to legal issues between frontman Stephan Jenkins and then-guitarist of the band Tony Fredianelli. The subsequent re-staffing the band with mostly new members in 2011 and 2012 led Jenkins to shy away from releasing the material, stating that it no longer represented the current band lineup - though comments from as recent as 2015 have alluded to releasing some of the music online eventually as well.
Information on an album titled Ursa Minor arose as early as March 2009, from Billboard magazine. The band later revealed more upon discussing the release of their then upcoming fourth studio album, Ursa Major, in May 2009 with Billboard. The band had been working on material sporadically since their prior album, Out of the Vein, had been released in 2003, and had accumulated a wealth of material, leading to the plan of releasing it all as a double album; Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. Fredianelli described the original concept:
"It's kind of like the big dipper and the little dipper. It's not necessarily like the big songs on Ursa Major. There's going to be some great songs on Ursa Minor, too. It's just a matter of how they fit together in the collage. Certain songs share certain spots on the record. Records are kind of like a piece of art, you don't want to add too much blue, ebbing and flowing through. It seems like the two records are fitting together in a certain way.
However, with work on Ursa Minor material not being complete, plans changed to releasing them as two separate but companion type fourth and fifth albums.Ursa Major was released on August 18, 2009, with Ursa Minor having a tentative release scheduled for later in the same year. However, focus on touring in support of Ursa Major pushed the release back, while on the album continued through 2010 and 2011. In April 2010, Brad Hargreaves stated that they were continuing to flesh out the material for it. In January 2011, Jenkins stated at concerts that they were still planning on working on the release upon completing touring.
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