Urgency (album)
Encyclopedia
Urgency is the debut album from the Canadian
alternative rock
band, Low Level Flight
, released on March 27, 2007.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band, Low Level Flight
Low Level Flight
Low Level Flight is a five-piece alternative rock band based in Toronto, Canada. It was formed by Ryan Malcolm in 2006. LLF toured much of Canada, the US, Mexico and Asia in support of their debut album Urgency, which was produced by Mike Borkosky. The band had three top ten videos and two top 40...
, released on March 27, 2007.
Track listing
- "Change for Me" (R.Malcolm; A.Alexander; C.Perry) - 3:38
- "Hesitate" (R.Malcolm; J.Rooke; S.Noronha; M.Vanderzand; S.Vanderzand) - 3:58
- "When Will I Learn" (R.Malcolm; L.McMaster; R.Patterson; D.Thomson) - 3:39
- "Hate You" (R.Malcolm; M.Borkosky) - 3:21
- "Turnaround" (R.Malcolm; M.Fox; R.Wells) - 3:35
- "Say" (R.Malcolm; M.Fox; R.Patterson; R.Wells) - 3:16
- "For a Second" (R.Malcolm; D.Martin; D.Thomson) - 3:48
- "Holiday" (R.Malcolm; J.Rooke; S.Noronha; M.Vanderzand; S.Vanderzand) - 3:22
- "Save My Soul" (R.Malcolm; R.Patterson; D.Thomson) - 3:53
- "All That I Need" (R.Malcolm; M.Borkosky) - 5:19
Singles
- "Change for Me" - Released in March 2007 as the first single, the song peaked at #69 on the Canadian Hot 100Canadian Hot 100The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...
chart.
- "Say" - Released in November 2007, the song was a radio hit and peaked at #22 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart, becoming the band's first single to chart within the Top 30. The song remains the band's most successful song to date.
- "Turnaround" - Released in June 2008 as the third and final single, the song failed to chart.
Personnel
- Ryan MalcolmRyan MalcolmRyan Michael Malcolm is a Canadian singer best known as the winner of the first season of Canadian Idol....
: lead vocals, acoustic guitarAcoustic guitarAn acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound... - Shaun Noronha: bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, backing vocals - Dave Carter: lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
- James Rooke: rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
- Brandon Merenick: drums, percussion
- Ray Coburn: Piano on the tracks "When Will I Learn" and "All That I Need"
- Mike Borkosky: Producer, recording and mix engineer, additional guitars, keys, percussion, and programming
- Michael Rosenberg: Management
- Patrick Duffy: Art direction & Design
- Caitlin Cronenberg: Photography