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Agony & Irony is the sixth studio album by Alkaline Trio, released on July 1, 2008 on Epic Records. Matt Skiba states that the band set out to record a "hard rock record" that is "anthemic and sing-a-long-ey."[1]
A year prior to the album's release, "In Vein", was performed live at Warped Tour 2007, streamed on the band's official fan club on April 3 and was uploaded to the band's MySpace site for 24 hours the following day.
On April 22 an EP with the same title was released on iTunes. The EP featured two tracks which had already been heard by fans and a new song entitled 'Into The Night'.
The album's first single, "Help Me", was released to radio stations on April 28, 2008. The second single has been confirmed to be "I Found Away".[1] and a video will be shot in the fall of 2008.
Norwegian experimental band Ulver contributed strings, programming and vocals on "Lost & Rendered" and "In My Stomach."
Title
In an interview promoting the album, Matt Skiba cites that:
"there’s a theme of duality on the record, it’s sort of a spin on ‘ebony and ivory’ which of course represents black and white. The songs on the new album sort of represent a struggle between good and evil, light and dark, and despair and hope. We felt Agony and Irony was appropriate, I mean we fancy ourselves as being pretty clever, and we felt a play on words was also fitting for the new record."[1]
Influences
Regarding the record's sound and influences, Skiba mentions that he:
"was listening to a lot of Pat Benatar, Def Leppard and a lot of the 80’s MTV music that I grew up with. So that was a big influence in the writing process, bands like The Cars."
Track listing
All Tracks by Alkaline Trio
- "Calling All Skeletons" - 3:19
- "Help Me" - 3:44
- "In Vein" - 3:57
- "Over And Out" - 3:14
- "I Found Away" - 4:01
- "Do You Wanna Know?" - 3:36
- "Live Young, Die Fast" - 4:14
- "Love Love, Kiss Kiss" - 3:25
- "Lost And Rendered" - 3:23
- "Ruin It" - 3:36
- "Into The Night" - 3:23
Bonus Tracks
- "In My Stomach" - 3:53 (iTunes Bonus Track)
- "Love Love, Kiss Kiss (Acoustic)" - 3:08 (Australian Bonus Track)
- "Fire Down Below" - 3:43 (Japanese Bonus Track)
Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc
- "Burned Is the House" - 4:26
- "Maybe I'll Catch Fire (Acoustic)" - 3:04
- "Live Young, Die Fast (Acoustic)" - 3:19
- "Into The Night (Acoustic)" - 3:12
- "Over And Out (Acoustic)" - 2:47
- "Lost And Rendered (Acoustic)" - 3:13