Take It to the Floor
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Reception
The LPLP album
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
has received mixed reviews. AbsolutePunk gave the album a 68%, calling it a "classic case of the recycled trends discussion." AllMusic gave a rating of 3.5 stars, saying that "if you want a quick and most likely short-lived blast of pop nonsense, the album is pretty brilliant." Many reviews praise the third track from the album, "Party in Your Bedroom," but state that the rest of the album does not live up to the single.
Personnel
- Jean Paul Makhlouf - Lead VocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, MixingAudio mixing (recorded music)In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may... - Alex Luke Makhlouf - KeyboardMusical keyboardA musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
, Programming, Backing Vocals - Sam Frisch - Bass, Backing Vocals, Programming, Package Design
- Anthony Villacari - Drums
Additional personnel
- S*A*MSam HollanderSam Hollander is an American songwriter and record producer. He has written and/or produced hits for the likes of Train, Boys Like Girls, Gym Class Heroes, Good Charlotte, Carole King, Neon Trees, Cobra Starship, 3OH!3, Coheed and Cambria, All Time Low, Metro Station, We The Kings, O.A.R., Uncle...
& SLUGGODave KatzDave Katz has co-written and/or produced songs for The Cab, Hey Monday, All Time Low, Boys Like Girls, Gym Class Heroes, Kelly Rowland, The Academy Is..., Mandy Moore, Cobra Starship, Roger Daltrey, Coheed and Cambria, Metro Station, We The Kings, Blake Lewis, Hollywood Undead, and others.In 2005,...
- Producer, Engineer, Co-writer (Party In Your Bedroom) - Jeff TurzoJeff TurzoJeff Turzo, as singer/programming and songwriting/production partner in the electro-rock band God Lives Underwater , spent the better part of the 1990s as a producer and touring artist, first signed by Rick Rubin to American Recordings in 1993....
& Matt MahaffeyMatt MahaffeyMatt Mahaffey is an American multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and recording engineer best known for his band Self.-Personal:Matt grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee and was involved with music from a young age...
- Producer, Engineer, Keyboards - Ted Jenson - Mastering
- Mike Doerr - Photo Editing
- Kellyann Petry - Photography
- Nicholas Routzen - Inlay Photography
- Ben Adelson - A&R