Tales Don't Tell Themselves
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Tales Don't Tell Themselves is the third album by Funeral for a Friend. It charted at #3 in the UK selling 25,000 copies in it's first week.
It was released on May 14 2007. Before the release of the album, the band released several short studio update videos informing fans of their progress. During the recording of the album, Matt Davies used the same microphone he used to record the group's debut album Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation and Ryan Richards recorded his drum parts by recording cymbals separate to the rest of his drum parts and replacing the normal cymbals with electric ones whilst recording basic drums. Matt plays guitar on several of the songs, this is the first album in which he will do so. The band plan to do their first tour for the new album in venues similar to the ones of the last Hours tour, however they may move up to larger venues depending on the success of the album. On February 13, 2007 the band put out the track "Out of Reach" as a taster for fans. [1] The lead single from the album, "Into Oblivion (Reunion)", was for released on 7th May 2007. The song debuted on The Zane Lowe rock show on 19th March and the official music video was uploaded to the band's MySpace page shortly after. According to Matt, speaking at a performance at Manchester's Apollo Theatre, the second single from the album is to be "Walk Away".
Matt has mentioned that it is a concept album:
David is a Fisherman who is captain of a boat that regularly trawls the deep waters, he comes from a small fishing town on the coast where his wife Eleanor and daughter Isabelle await his return, but a huge storm is quickly approaching it hits the town and and then batters David's boat and leaves him shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean as the only survivor. He spends days adrift going crazy and delirious wondering if he will ever see his family again, meanwhile the towns people fear that the fishermen are all dead, the coast guards rescue attempts have failed to recover any survivors. David becomes so delirious his life flashes before his eyes (he guides his younger self through his life as a blackbird) he eventually hits land and snaps out of his delusion. He is scared of the waters and the colossal waves and power that killed his crew but he decides that doing nothing to get back to Eleanor and Isabelle is a cowardly way out so he decides to build a small raft and brave the elements once again, this time he is found by a lifeboat and reunited with his family. The End. Basically, Cast Away meets The Perfect Storm, it has a lot to do with my own personal fears of the ocean and coming to terms with that through the story.[2]
Track Listing
- "Into Oblivion (Reunion)" - 4:23
- "The Great Wide Open" - 3:32
- "The Diary" - 3:40
- "On a Wire" - 3:59
- "All Hands on Deck - Part 1: Raise the Sail" - 3:23
- "All Hands on Deck - Part 2: Open Water" - 3:48
- "Out of Reach" - 3:34
- "One for the Road" - 4:10
- "Walk Away" - 3:48
- "The Sweetest Wave" - 6:25
- "Rise and Fall" - 3:27 (iTunes Bonus Track)
- "Crash and Burn (Home Demo)" - 4:21 (iTunes Bonus Track)
