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Patent Pending is the debut album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

by Heavens, a side project formed by Matt Skiba

Matt Skiba

Matthew Thomas Skiba is the lead singer and guitarist of Alkaline Trio.-Early life and family:...

, vocalist and guitarist for Alkaline Trio

Alkaline Trio

Alkaline Trio is an American punk rock band that formed in McHenry, Illinois, in 1996. The band's line-up consists of Matt Skiba , Dan Andriano , and Derek Grant...

, and Josiah Steinbrick.

The duo are accompanied on the album by a number of accomplished musicians, including The Mars Volta's

The Mars Volta

The Mars Volta is a Grammy award winning American progressive rock band from El Paso, Texas. Founded in 2001 by guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, the band incorporates various influences including progressive rock, krautrock, jazz fusion, Latin American music, and...

Isaiah "Ikey" Owens.

Track listing

All songs by Heavens (Steinbrick/Skiba) except where noted

"Gardens" – 3:05
"Counting" – 3:39
"Heather" – 3:53
"Patent Pending" – 3:45
"Dead End Girl" (Steinbrick/Skiba/Ben Lovett) – 4:58
"Doves" – 0:56
"Another Night" – 3:36
"Annabelle" (Steinbrick/Skiba/Sam Soto) – 3:53
"Watching You" – 4:14
"True Hate" – 5:16
"Leave" – 4:45

Production

Produced by Ben Lovett and Heavens
Engineered by Ben Lovett at Sunny Heights
Mixed by Ryan Hewitt
Assisted by George Gumbs
Mixed at Paramount Recording, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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and Encore Studios, Burbank
Burbank, California
Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, north of downtown Los Angeles. The estimated population in 2010 was 103,340....
Mastered by Tom Baker at Precision Mastering
String engineering by Dana Neilsen and Donnie Whitbeck
String arrangement by Amanda Course, Todd Simon and Ben Lovett
Art direction and design by Nick Pritchard
Photography by Bryan Sheffield

Additional musicians

Matthew Compton: drums, percussion, piano
Adam Zuckert: additional drums
Isaiah "Ikey" Owens: organ
Erica Daking: backing vocals
Ben Lovett: drum programming, rhodes, synth, wurlitzer, percussion, noise, backing vocals, additional vocals and guitar on "Dead End Girl"
Julie Carpenter: violin
Marina Hall: violin
Paloma Udovic: violin
Amanda Course: viola
Mia Barcia-Colombo: cello
Ana Lenchantin
Ana Lenchantin
Ana Lenchantin is an Argentine-American cellist known for frequent appearances with American rock bands such as Into the Presence The Eels, Gnarls Barkley, No Doubt, Arthur Lee and Love, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, 30 Seconds to Mars, Brian Wilson, Billy Corgan,...

: cello

Samples

Listen to "Patent Pending" at Epitaph.com

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