Singularity
Studio album by Mae
Released	August 14, 2007 August 22, 2007[1] (Scheduled)
Recorded	Bay 7 Studio (Valley Village, California) Mates Studio (Burbank, California) Earthsound Studio (Long Beach, California)[2] Sparky Dark Studio (Calabasas, California)
Genre	Alternative
Length	46:09
Label	Capitol Tooth & Nail
Producer	Mae & Howard Benson
Professional reviews
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Mae chronology
The Everglow Special Edition (2006) Singularity (2007) --

Singularity is Mae's third full-length release and their major label debut. Mae is an American rock band that formed in Norfolk, Virginia in 2001. The Everglow is Mae 's second full-length Album. Some versions of the album are packaged in a special sleeve Mae is an American rock band that formed in Norfolk, Virginia in 2001. The album was originally to be released in April 2007 on Tooth & Nail Records like their previous two albums, but the band signed a deal with major label Capitol Records soon after the new album announcement which pushed the release date back to August 14, 2007. Tooth & Nail Records is a Record label founded by Brandon Ebel in the U Capitol Records is a major United States -based Record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood California and New York City as Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ^[3]

Contents 1 Production 2 Release date 3 Webisodes 4 Track listing 5 Credits 6 Charts 7 DVD 8 References 9 External links

Production

Mae headed to Los Angeles to record Singularity with producer Howard Benson in October 2006. ^[4] The band came up with the title Singularity from a book that Marshall and Sweitzer were reading by Australian scientist Paul Davies. ^[5] Jacob Marshall referred to the term as being "the ultimate unknowable in science. . . the interface between the natural and the supernatural. ’ We realized through those conversations that there is so much more for us to learn and to understand and these ideas inspired us to question everything. "

The band was inspired by bands like Pearl Jam, U2 and The Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine when they were creating Singularity. Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990 The Smashing Pumpkins are an American Alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988 Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen Washington. Rage Against the Machine (sometimes shortened to RATM or Rage) is Jacob stated in a recent interview with Fuss Magazine that Mae collaborated with musical artist Kenna for a track titled "Novacaine" that would be for the Japanese release. Kenna, born Kenna Zemedkun is an Ethiopian -born American musician Jacob said the band would try to leak the extra track to their listeners. The track would be released on release day as a bonus track via the iTunes store. ^[5][6][7][8] Rob will for the first time play the Vox organ, Companion organ, Casio portatone, and the kazoo instruments on an album. Vox is a musical equipment manufacturer which is most famous for making the Vox AC30 guitar amplifier, the Vox Electric organ, and a series of innovative The organ (from Greek όργανον – organon "organ instrument tool" is a Keyboard instrument of one or more divisions each ( is a Japanese electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946 with its Headquarters in Tokyo. The kazoo is a simple Musical instrument ( Membranophone) that adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when one vocalizes into it ^[2]

Release date

At a concert in Charlottesville on April 30, Dave Elkins stated that the release date would be August 14, 2007 on Capitol Records. Charlottesville is an Independent city located within the confines of Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. This was confirmed by Zach Gehring in a news post to the band's website and mailing list on May 3. ^[1] On June 18, Mae posted the song "Brink of Disaster" on their MySpace page. On June 20, the song "Sometimes I Can't Make It Alone" was made available as a digital download through the United States iTunes music store, though it was not intended to be released until June 26. iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application introduced by Apple Inc On June 26 the song was made available to purchase through Napster, Amazon and all other digital outlets. Napster was an online music file sharing service created by Shawn Fanning while he was attending Northeastern University in Boston and operating Amazoncom Inc ( is an American electronic commerce ( E-commerce) company in Seattle Washington. ^[1] It was also made available as a ringtone through most major cell phone companies and it was posted on their MySpace page. Mae has offered an autographed booklet with pre-orders via the Interpunk and SmartPunk stores. Singularity was leaked to file-sharing sites on August 3, 2007. Events 8 - Roman Empire General Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. On August 10, 2007 the band made Singularity available to stream on the band's MySpace website. Events 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. For almost one week following its release, the new album was mislabeled on iTunes as performed by "Various Artists," which could have caused downloaders to have had issues searching for the new Mae album.

Following its release, Singularity debuted at number 40 on the U. S. Billboard 200, selling about 17,000 copies in its first week. The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard ^[9]

Webisodes

The band has been producing weekly webisodes on website devoted to the album and its release. The band releases webisodes weekly named after a song on the album, and features the song in the webisode. Each episode features band members explaining what each song means. Each episode contains footage of studio recordings. The intro and outro to a couple of videos can be perceived as subliminal messaging as promoting 081407 (date: August 14, 2007), the day Singularity was released. Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.

The list below contains the webisode name and date released:

June 11, 2007 June 18, 2007 June 25, 2007 July 9, 2007 July 16, 2007 July 23, 2007 July 30, 2007 August 6, 2007 August 13, 2007

Brink of Disaster Rocket Sometimes I Can't Make It Alone Crazy 8s SST Just Let Go Telescopes Home Singularity

Track listing

The final track listing was announced in a MySpace bulletin by Rob on May 26th.

This is the track listing:

0. "Last Transmission" - 1:33 (Hidden track in the pregap)

1. "Brink of Disaster" - 3:38
2. "Crazy 8s" - 4:01
3. "Sometimes I Can't Make It Alone" - 3:15
4. "Just Let Go" - 3:17
5. "On Top" - 3:47
6. "Waiting" - 4:51
7. "Sic Semper Tyrannis" - 3:20*
8. "Release Me" - 4:01
9. "Telescopes" - 3:25
10. "Rocket" - 2:52
11. "Home" - 3:37
12. "Reflections" 6:05

• "Sic Semper Tyrannis" is also known as SST for short, as it was titled during their webisode dated July 16, 2007. In the field of recorded music, a hidden track (sometimes secret track) is a piece of music which has been placed on a Compact disc, audio cassette The pregap on a Red Book audio CD is the portion of the audio track that precedes "index 01" for a given track in the table of contents (TOC
• There is one more track to the physical CD which can be heard if the disc is "rewound" back to -1:33 of track 1. This track is known as "Last Transmission"; which made an appearance in a webisode not included in the 081407. com website but is part of Mae's Youtube. com profile.

Bonus tracks:^[10][8]

13. "(Silence)" – 4:07
14. "Last Transmission II" – 6:38

iTunes release:

13. "Last Transmission II" (Hidden Track) – 6:38
14. "Novocaine" (Bonus Track) (feat. Kenna) – 4:17

Japanese release:^[5]

13. "Novocaine" (feat. Kenna, born Kenna Zemedkun is an Ethiopian -born American musician Kenna)

Credits

• Dave Elkins: vocals, guitar
• Zach Gehring: guitar, vocals
• Mark Padgett: bass, vocals
• Jacob Marshall: drums, vocals
• Rob Sweitzer: keyboards, Hammond B3, vocals
• All songs written by: Mae
• Published by: Myman Jones
• Produced by: Howard Benson
• Recorded by: Mike Plotnikoff
• Cover design: J. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the A drum kit (also drum set or trap set) is a collection of Drums Cymbals and sometimes other Percussion instruments such as cowbells A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a Musical keyboard. Michael Mollohan ^[1]

Charts

Chart	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200	40

DVD

There was a possibility of a DVD being co-released with the new album. The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard The band's tour manager has filmed almost 100 hours of footage of the album's writing and recording, and says that much of the material "will likely make it to DVD either with the new album or as a stand alone DVD". Mae told Chart in June 2007 that they hope to release a DVD in late 2007 or early 2008. ^[7]

References

External links

• Singularity website
• Singularity web tools
• Mae on myspace
• Mae interview with Fuss Magazine

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