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The new album ACETATE is finally done and on its way to the presses. Produced by Don Dixon, it is my third solo album. ACETATE will be released world-wide by Bug Music Digital the fall of 2010 to all digital outlets including iTunes, eMusic, Amazon and more.
In the meantime I will be throwing an Executive Producers Party. For more information on how to participate and attend please email Eileen Sammon at: chrisallenmusic.com
Look back soon for NYC, Washington D.C., and Chicago album release dates.
ACETATE Track Listing:
- Love Not Born
- The Man Who Shook the World
- I Don't Live Here Anymore
- Immediate Blue
- We Are Just Kids
- Burn Down the Road
- The Truth About Being in Love
- People Need Targets
- With the Morning Comes the Sun
- Boy Meets Girl
- Together We Are
Special thanks to my friends for their hard work helping me complete ACETATE, my 3rd solo release: Don Dixon, Molly Allen, Marti Jones, Tom Prebish, Walkin' Cane and Jim Brock. And to Garry Velletri and everyone at Bug Music Digital.
The new album ACETATE is coming Oct. 26, 2010.
Pre-order your copy of ACETATE on CD or Vinyl. All orders will ship by Oct. 21.
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Singer-songwriter Allen sounds fine when he's down and out. When he gets to feeling good, it's downright contagious. Things Unbroken – the second solo record by the former frontman for Cleveland's alt-country darlings Rosavelt – is a more optimistic outing than 2006's Goodbye Girl and the Big Apple Circus. Producer Don Dixon – who's polished R.E.M. and Marshall Crenshaw – gives the album a vintage college-rock gloss. Songs like "She's a Fighter" and "Renegade" bounce and jangle like Paul Westerberg jamming with the Pixies. There isn't one downer here. Even the morosely titled "One Day Our Bad Luck Is Going to Save Us" chugs along like a freight train headed for happy days.
"…writer/singer Chris Allen here comes into his own as a chronicler of life's minor ups and downs. While Allen doesn't shy away from big themes—'Emerald Hope' is a decidedly non-idealistic requiem for the hippie dream and 'Saturday 3am Blue' is a beer-soaked ballad that threatens existential despair—he injects an equal dose of poignancy into the raggedy roots rockers that give this record its soul…If you miss the straight-talking side of Jeff Tweedy…you'll want to get to know Chris Allen"
SCENE MAGAZINE 2006 CLEVELAND BEST OF ISSUE "Chris Allen cut his teeth in Rosavelt, playing a rugged roots-rock sound reminiscent of Exile-era Stones and The Replacements. Now, on his solo debut, Goodbye Girl and the Big Apple Circus, Allen has created the perfect soundtrack for the broken hearted. Whether pining after "Sweet Lorraine" or pondering a "Guilty Heart," Allen has a way with tales of longing and loss, delivered in a gritty, baritone drawl."
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