It Was Warm and Sunny When We First Set Out
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It Was Warm and Sunny When We First Set Out is the second full-length studio album from Vancouver
indie rock
band In Medias Res
. Self-released on January 4, 2011, the 10-track album was initially only available as a digital download. After the band signed with Vancouver label File Under: Music on June 23, 2011, the album was released as a hard copy on July 12. It Was Warm and Sunny was produced by Jonathan Anderson, who had worked with the band on their 2003 record, Of What Was
. The album's name is taken from a track from their Demos EP of the same title. It has been positively reviewed by such local publications as The Georgia Straight
and The Vancouver Sun
, which rated the album four out of five, while categorizing it as post-
and math-rock in genre.
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
band In Medias Res
In medias res (band)
In Medias Res is an indie rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The band consists of Andrew Lee , Ash Poon , Ryan Flowers and Robert Tornroos . Tornroos replaced the band's original drummer, Steve Watts, after the latter left the band in 2011...
. Self-released on January 4, 2011, the 10-track album was initially only available as a digital download. After the band signed with Vancouver label File Under: Music on June 23, 2011, the album was released as a hard copy on July 12. It Was Warm and Sunny was produced by Jonathan Anderson, who had worked with the band on their 2003 record, Of What Was
Of What Was
Of What Was is the first full-length album by in medias res, an indie rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia. Produced by fellow Vancouver indie act Jonathan Anderson, it was originally self-released on July 8, 2003 and sold out of its initial 1,000 copies within a year and a half. Of What...
. The album's name is taken from a track from their Demos EP of the same title. It has been positively reviewed by such local publications as The Georgia Straight
The Georgia Straight
The Georgia Straight is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainment newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia, by the Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corp...
and The Vancouver Sun
The Vancouver Sun
The Vancouver Sun is a daily newspaper first published in the Canadian province of British Columbia on February 12, 1912. The paper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network. It is published six days a week, Monday to Saturday...
, which rated the album four out of five, while categorizing it as post-
Post-rock
Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...
and math-rock in genre.